Apartment Warming Party!

So yesterday.. was the most hectic day ever. I enlisted the help of Christine and my friends Courtney and Ben to get set up for the party. We spent most of the day in the kitchen, but Courtney and I spent some time in my room because she was on goody bag duty, and I really wanted to get the curtains finished for the living room and kitchen.

Here's a shot of the living room just before the party.. with curtains!

And a look into my kitchen.. with its new curtains as well!

As for the food, I guess I'll start with dessert.
An assortment from VCTOW. First we have Tiramisu.

Cookies and Cream!

And Pistachio Rosewater!

We also had a fruit tray!
The dip is equal parts Tofutti cream cheese and Ricemellow Creme.

Hummus and veggies.

My sushi, third times a charm! It was real good.
Avocado, cucumber and carrots.. as always. I'm boring.

Pigz in a blanket! Smart Dogs, quartered and wrapped up in crescent rolls.

And bruschetta! There was also pita chips and spinach artichoke dip but those pictures didn't come out so fancy.

Oh and then.. a shot of me and Chris as he was leaving.
Haha you can see the tupperware of cupcakes he's leaving with.

It was a grand party! The goody bags had assorted vegan candy and small toys I bought at Five Below. Yayy for my apartment.

S'mores Cupcakes

Tonight I tried the s'mores cupcakes from VCTOW.. I sort of messed up the frosting. I tried to halve it.. but halfway through I forgot what I was doing and added the full amount of soymilk. So I wasn't able to pipe it, but Christine and I just spooned it onto the cupcakes.. and then topped them with chocolate shavings and graham cracker crumbs.


These were actually a request from my boss' son.. I'm taking them in to work tomorrow. I had one.. they are quite reminiscent of s'mores!

Cupcakes and Tofu

Today was a good Sunday! Christine bought some oops paint at Home Depot to paint a wall in her kitchen red. It's looking pretty cool. I made some cupcakes while she painted. Chocolate with pink tinted buttercream frosting (leftover from the pistachio rose cupcakes) with red sugar, walnuts, banana chips, a drizzle of melted chocolate, and a cherry on top!

Sunday sundae cupcakes!The batch ended up making 12 mini and 9 regular cupcakes!

For dinner we made fusilli pasta with tofu "meat" balls in pasta sauce. I made the tofu balls myself, but they fell apart in the sauce :-( I actually made them a while ago and froze them.. so I don't remember what they're made of! Tofu.. uhmm bread crumbs, wheat germ I think, oregano and basil.. some stuff! In any case.. it made a good chunky sauce!

Crepes for a Party!

Well.. they were really crepes for a potluck, but my friend wouldn't let me call it that. She said old people have potlucks. It wasn't a vegan potluck, so there was spinach dip in a bread bowl that I couldn't have, but it looked so cool. I liked the bread bowl idea. There was spaghetti, hummus, and really good potatoes. Christine took a salad..

And I took a build-your-own crepe station!


These were the first crepes I ever made and they turned out good. I threw the first one away though, hehe. Here's my crepe! I put everything on it.


It was great! Oh yeah, and then I made scones for work! I used the basic scone recipe from VWaV, and added fresh strawberries and blueberries. Yay :-)


One more thing! I just realized this: the same date that I'm having my apartment-warming party (which I have yet to use the kitchen.. since I'm living in Philly with Christine to work) is my one year veganniversary! July 7th - double party!


EDIT: I just got done with these! They're for work tomorrow. Pistachio Rosewater cupcakes from VCTOW. I can't take credit for the frosting job though. I'm just a mere music major, Christine's an art major.. so I enlisted her to do the swirls. Aren't they beautiful?

Filled Cupcakes

Baking for work again.. Golden Vanilla Cupcakes (VCTOW) with a chocolate mousse filling (silken tofu, melted chocolate chips, soymilk, vanilla) and some more of the mousse on top, with some powdered sugar.


I'm a little bummed, I only wanted them to be FILLED with the mousse, but I had so much leftover.. and I didn't know what I was going to put on top anyway. So I just spread more mousse around.. shrug. And then the powdered sugar sort of soaked into it.


It was a valiant effort. I am just having no luck with cupcakes these days. At least I got some baking cups.

German Chocolate Cupcakes!

Well.. I was pretty determined to make cupcakes tonight!

I wanted to make chocolate cupcakes.. but alas, no cocoa powder. Well I decreased the oil in the recipe (from VCTOtW) and added some melted chocolate chips. It's all good.. then I realize.. no baking cups! Whatever. I just greased up the pan. They baked and came out fine.. but now they're all sticky.. because they don't have baking cups. I put them on the nice serving platter to take to work and they're all sticking to it!!

Ah well.. I figure I will just find some forks and plates and tell everyone to eat them that way. Oh yeah and then I made coconut topping. So here you have.. German Chocolate cupcakes.

Tiramisu Cupcakes!

Tonight me and Christine made the Tiramisu cupcakes from VCTOtW! We're taking them to work tomorrow. I didn't have any chocolate-covered coffee beans so.. a chunk of chocolate goes on top.. I don't think there will be any complaints.


I've had this book since it first came out.. but these are my first fancy cupcakes. I'm excited!

Party Foods!

Last night me and my sister threw a martini party!
Here's the Christmas shot.. apple and pomegranate martinis!

We made the Brooklyn vs. Boston Cream Pie Cakes from VCTOtW.
Except the cream sort of absorbed into the cupcakes..
Nobody even knew it was there :-( We'll have to use more next time.

And also the Cookies 'N Cream Cupcakes..
Except I used the golden vanilla cupcake batter instead of chocolate.
They turned out really good, everybody liked these more.

We also made some pita chips, and the spinach artichoke dip
I found on Vegan-licious' blog.
It was excellent! The first thing to go.

Cupcakes!

Jeez it's been a few days.. with band over I haven't been doing nearly as much baking. But tonight I went down to the kitchen and made the Golden Vanilla Cupcakes from VCTOtW, with the Cinnamon Icing. I haven't tried one but they look preeetttty good! Although.. when I was making the icing of course I had to lick some off my fingers.. it tasted pretty darn margarine-y.. I wonder what I can do about that.

Golden Vanilla Cupcakes with Cinnamon Icing

Not much is up lately besides that.. I can't wait for the semester to be over....

Cupcakes!

FINALLY putting VCTOtW to good use!
These are just regular banana cupcakes, fresh out of the oven:

Topped with chocolate buttercream frosting
and a few chopped walnuts:

The whole gang!

The only thing is.. marching band is over now.. I don't know who I baked these for. I'M certainly not going to eat them all. I just had some old bananas that I needed to use, and I STILL have 2 left! Yikes.

Snickerdoodles and Book

Hey, it's been a while! Well first things first, I checked the mailbox today.. A BOOK! Huzzah!

It tastes good.. ?

Then I made the snack for saxophone snack time tomorrow.. no I didn't make cupcakes hehe. I made the snickerdoodles from La Dolce Vegan! I haven't tried them, but they look good!