cupcakes

Two new books that I had ordered got delivered yesterday. After loving lots of the recipes in Vegan With a Vengeance, I decided to order Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero's other two books. As I make some recipes I'll post what things have turned out like. Because of a teacher's strike, Mitchell ended up being home with me today, so once we got the million and one errands done that we needed to do, we made some cupcakes. Well, in the end I did because Mitchell decided against helping out when it came down to it. I was itching to make some chocolate ones, but Mitchell is a vanilla kid and wanted to make fairly plain ones. We picked up a piping tool (cheap and crappy plastic one) but the icing (Vegan Fluffy Buttercream Frosting) didn't turn out as fluffy as anticipated so I ended up spooning the icing on. I could have added more icing sugar (confectioners sugar to those in America) to thicken it but we really had a huge amount of icing already so I decided to just spoon it on.

Anyway, the cupcakes were absolutely delicious despite the flat icing. Quite probably the nicest cupcakes I've ever tasted. The mixture was so delicious and smooth and once cooked, just, well, yummy :) I'm even more excited at the prospect of trying the chocolate ones, actually there are lots of yummy cakes I want to try - not bad for a non-cook, but when stuff tastes that awesome it really is worth it.

So now to have a bit of a squiz at the other book, which is huge and thick so I'm assuming will be filled with tons of yumminess :)