Alright.. so, my friend Celine has a food blog called Have cake will travel. She whips up delicious looking (and I’m sure, tasting) goodies and posts photos of them to her LJ and her foodblog.

She inspired me to try something new, and so I decided I would hunt down the totally awesome cookbook “Vegan cupcakes take over the world” With a name like that, can you seriously NOT own it? I dont think so. (Buy it Here on amazon)

Ok, so I havent bought it yet. But I’m going to. I stopped by my mom’s house on the way to the shopping trip where I had planned on purchasing the cookbook, and it just so happened that my mom recently acquired it. So.. I borrowed it.

Instead of going and buying the book, I went to the grocery store and bought all the ingredients I needed (that I didnt already have) and got prepared to make some cupcakes.

Considering that I am NOT vegan, I wholly assumed these cupcakes would taste bad. I’m wneverbashfulwithbutter.comhttp://www.neverbashfulwithbutter.comoman enough to admit it. I seriously thought I was going to hate them. I even planned for a drop off with my sister’s roommate Suzanne, who’s vegan. When I heard that she hasnt had any cake since becoming vegan over a year ago.. My heart went out to her. I HAD to do something to fix this obvious problem. Everyone needs cake. Even vegans!

Today was the day. I gathered my impliments, my ingredients and my bowl. I cleared the counters and got to mixin’.

I attempted the (surprisingly easy) basic golden cupcake recipe. After I baked the cupcakes (which smelled heavenly) I got to making a soymilk/ sugar modeling paste (it actually tastes really good.). I didnt have the vegan margarine (because I’m dumb and forgot ONE ingredient. I always do that) so I couldnt make a “buttercream” icing, and the girl I’m giving these cupcakes to cant have chocolate, so ganache was out.

This was what I came up with-

100% VEGAN!

Ok, so I know you cant TELL that they’re vegan by looking at them. I could be pulling one over on you, and just saying that they’re vegan. But I wouldnt do that. Seriously. Thats not cool. Everything that I bake, I present in its true form.. no lies, no secrets. Heck, I even post about my mistakes!

So there you go guys. My first (and certainly not my last) attempt at vegan cupcakes.

Tomorrow I’m going to bake another batch, and I’m gonna get the vegan margarine so I can make the fluffy icing to go along with it!

-A.

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