My Vegan Cauliflower Buffalo Wings are addictingly crispy. Serve with my herbed-chevre dressing and celery-scallion salad for the perfect appetizer!

November 3, 2020 Updated May 15, 2021 Jump to Recipe
My Vegan Cauliflower Buffalo Wings are addictingly crispy. Serve with my herbed-chevre dressing and celery-scallion salad for the perfect appetizer!
Are you a fan of the buffalo cauliflower wings at California Pizza Kitchen?
Because I am. A HUGE fan.
CPK changes their menu every so often, and I’ve sadly seen many of my favorite dishes disappear over the years. (Tricalore Pizza Salad where are you?????)
Actually, they no longer serve either of the dishes I so looked forward to at CPK. (Pear and Gorgonzola Pizza??? And again, WHERE is that Tricalore Pizza Salad!!!! And now I’d rather make my Taco Pizza than go out for CPK’s Tostada one!)
So why do I still go to CPK? Yep, you guessed it .
Buffalo Cauliflower Wings.
Ohhhhh my gosh these things are good! You know you have a problem when you find yourself ordering two cauliflower appetizers and counting it as your meal…
Not only is that, well, not a meal, it’s also pretty expensive, considering you’re spending over ten dollars on CAULIFLOWER.
This, coupled with the recent sad news that CPK declared bankruptcy (allegedly this will help them stay in business. I sure hope so) finally convinced me of the urgency to create my own cauliflower buffalo wings recipe.
And I decided that while I was at it, I might as well make them vegan.
And just recreate the whole dish.
So if you’re a fan of CPK’s cauliflower wings, bleu cheese dressing, and the celery salad CPK serves with the wings, this recipe is for you!
My Buffalo Cauliflower Wings and Celery-Salad are vegan, and my herbed-chèvre dressing can be made vegan or vegetarian. I’ve yet to be satisfied with a vegan goat cheese or bleu cheese substitute, so when I make this dressing vegan, I forgo the chèvre. It’s a different flavor when you omit the goat cheese—the herbs take center stage—but I promise, this dressing is delicious either way!
Save a few dollars and a trip to the restaurant, and make my Vegan Buffalo Cauliflower Wings next time the wing craving hits you! You may just find yourself eating cauliflower and wishing you could call it a meal too…😄
If you’re ok with these cauliflower wings falling into the vegetarian category, I recently tried Wing-Time Hot Buffalo Wing Sauce [aff. link] for the first time, and it’s already become a favorite. Not too spicy, and more of a tomato base than typical buffalo wing sauces, it’s thick, creamy, and I love it. You can find Wing-Time Hot Buffalo Wing Sauce here on Amazon [aff. link].
And if you’re keeping these cauliflower wings vegan, definitely go with Noble Made Medium Buffalo Sauce [aff. link]. This is my go-to vegan Buffalo Sauce! It’s a runnier sauce while Wing-Time’s sauce is thicker. And if you like your wings a little spicer Noble Made also has a Hot Buffalo Sauce [aff. link].
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This sounds so fantastic! I love Buffalo wings, but I really don’t need to eat that much fried chicken! This is a perfect alternative that I think I could feel good about
Thanks Jeff! Oh definitely, still deep fried, but the cauliflower definitely cuts back on the guilt haha. 😄. Now if I could only control how many of these I eat in one sitting!
$10 for cauliflower!? That’s highway robbery! But at least it inspired you to make this dish at home. I do love recreating favorites from restaurants…and I like trying to make them even better, too. These cauliflower wings sound like a fun way to mix things up a bit! In fact, these sound like a great dinner-in-the-basement while binge watching something on Netflix kinda thing. Yum!
Haha highway robbery, it’s so true! And that sounds like the BEST way to spend an evening!