12 February 12

We brought all our cupcakes to Grandview Park just before 1, and there were people there giving away free bread and organic produce! What good karma. It only took us about fifteen minutes to give them all away, thanks in part to Steph's shouting "FREE CUPCAKES!" at the top of her lungs, and probably also because it was Commercial Drive and the cupcakes were all vegan (people were seriously thrilled). Jeff and I came home and made soup with the free vegetables, and ate it with the free bread.
See a few more photos from the day here.

11 February 12

Amanda, Laryssa, and Steph came over (we were also joined briefly by Alice & Josh and Sarah & Onur) and we made five batches of vegan cupcakes! Four of them were to give away the following day, but after making the first batch of jelly donut cupcakes we decided we needed a batch that we could eat. We also made rum raisin, vanilla, and chocolate mint. Above is Laryssa doing a shot of the leftover hot buttered rum glaze from the raisin cupcakes.

18 December 11

vegan Nanaimo bars.

27 November 11

Vegan peanut butter marble brownies.

18 October 11

I stayed up until midnight getting my entry for the cookoff ready. I had never really cooked beets before and it was very frustrating! And in my haste to get the cupcakes finished I almost forgot the sugar, which would have made them the healthiest, most awful-tasting cupcakes ever.

19 June 11

Jeff made a chocolate upside-down crême brulée, which turned out more like an incredibly delicious mousse with caramelized sugar. It was served with cognac whipped cream and it was fantastic.

25 January 11

I went to Amanda's after work and some other people joined us later so we could bake four dozen vegan cupcakes to give away the following day at Burrard Station. The ones pictured here are chocolate with peppermint icing, but we also made dulce sin leche, rosewater with orange buttercream, and chai with icing sugar. This is part of a monthly project started by Amanda - the idea is just to brighten people's day with a free cupcake with no strings attached.
Please see special delivery cupcakes tumblr for more information!

07 December 10

Preparing for the cookoff. Jeff put the dough together while I was at work because I literally had no other time in which to do it. I rolled and baked them after coming home from yoga in the evening. If I were to make them again, I'd use all white flour instead of half white/half wheat, because while they were flaky and buttery, they were not as light as you'd expect from croissants.