While many vegetarians have to eschew family food traditions in pursuit of a plant-based diet, there is an ever-growing number of us lucky enough to be raised in a vegetarian household and to learn, from childhood, how to cook and eat healthfully in a vegetarian kitchen. So it was for Mary McCartney—daughter of Paul McCartney of the Beatles and the late Linda McCartney, a rock photographer, musician, and animal rights activist who penned several vegetarian cookbooks and created the vegetarian product line Linda McCartney Foods.

Get excited everyone: vegan chef Chloe Coscarelli’s new dessert cookbook, Chloe’s Vegan Desserts, hit bookstores today. Coscarelli, winner of Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, is a graduate of New York’s Natural Gourmet Institute and author of the much-loved Chloe’s Kitchen. Below, this diva of mouth-watering and almost-too-pretty-to-eat desserts shares her essential vegan ingredient substitutions and more.

Health Coach and plant-based nutrition expert Sara Sullivan shares some favorite recipes and everyday ways to eat a healthy, vegetarian diet.