my sister and her husband were running booths at the shadow art fair in ypsi this saturday and i wanted to bring them some treats. of course, vegan cupcakes are the only real option here. I have really wanted to make fluffer-nutter cupcakes for a while now, but we had been out of stock of vegan marshmallows at work for a while. then when we finally got them in they were $5 for a tiny bag. boo. so maybe I’ll have to make those non-vegan. next up, fauxstesses. these were one of my favorite treats as a kid, and i have been wanting to make the vegan-variant for a while. unfortunately to make 24 minis and a dozen regular size seemed a bit daunting for starters. also I would have to buy a lot of the ingredients cause i dont have them around. then I found it. chocolate banana cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. the perfect trio of happiness and delicious flavor. and i already had all the ingredients in the house. so after work before trekking down to ypsi i whipped up a batch, threw the cupcakes in a bag unfrosted, filled up a pastry bag of frosting, and headed out. I had plenty to give out to everyone after giving my sister and brother a sugar rush of their own, so i handed out a lot of them. people were impressed by being able to watch the frosting in action with the pastry bag, and it was easier than trying to transport frosted cupcakes. win-win. people liked them. james said it was like eating a milkshake, which i now realize josh makes all his milkshakes banana chocolate peanutbutter so I think i’ll have to name the cakes after him. josh’s milkshake cupcakes. or something. either way, they were a hit, and i dont really have any pictures of them unfortunately because we ate them all too quick.
gingerbread monsters
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2009 by SaraI recently have been craving molasses like crazy–eating it on my oatmeal, on pancakes, and craving gingerbread molasses cookies too. My bf hates molasses and the only way I can get him to eat some is by putting it in cookies, so I made sugar molasses cutout cookies. I fucked up the original recipe but actually they turned out better because of it i think. The original recipe was a way softer dough that were to be for round chewy sort of cookies, but I forgot half the butter and had to make it work anyways so I ended up with perfect dough for crunchy cutout cookies. so I made the dough and rolled it out, and I was excited to use my woodland animals cookie cutouts I had. They came out great, and I made an icing to put on top and made most of them into skeleton animals! so cute!