When life hands you a vegan baking catastrophe...

make a fabulous vegan dessert! That's right, I had a baking mishap this morning. As I'm sure you can relate, when you experiment with recipes, sometimes you don't get the outcome you desire. Fortunately, we can sometimes fix it and make it even better!

That's what happened to me this morning. I decided I would bake some beet cupcakes that would resemble red velvet cake. Well, I have never made any beet cupcakes, let alone ones from scratch, so I just threw a bunch of stuff in a bowl. Unfortunately, I don't think I added enough flour, because the cupcakes sank down like they were deflating. Here's what I ended up with:



So, although they tasted delicious, they had a weird texture and obviously weren't very pretty except for their color. ;) The worst part was I already made a great "cream cheese" frosting.

Okay, so I wanted something with a little Valentine's Day flare, which is why I made them red in the first place. I knew I could make some banana, cranberry, almond cupcakes that would be yummy, so I made them. Then I topped them with the tasty frosting, and added an extra special garnish... the messed up ones! I cut their bright red tops off and carved little hearts out with a knife. I plopped them on top of each cupcake and ta-dah! they were beautiful!



So festive!!

Happy Valentine's Day!


Subscribe to Eating Consciously by Email




I'm on Facebook too!

Comments

  1. nannykimFebruary 15, 2009 at 9:14 AM

    Well the "ruined" ones look a little bit like tarts--I bet they would have been good with a filling of some sort ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Eating ConsciouslyFebruary 15, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    @nannykim unfortunately, they didn't have the texture of tarts. They were pretty gummy. Yuck.

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2009 at 7:32 PM

    Hardly a catastrophe at all- They look great, even before the frosting fix!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Questions/comments/concerns?

Popular posts from this blog

Raw Food Homophobes

Image
While a raw food diet truly makes no sense for an ethical vegan , there’s another unethical consideration that should be taken into account. There’s a lot of evidence that many males in the raw foods movement are flat out homophobic. Not only homophobic, but also ignorant and disgusting bigots. Take the Raw Brahs for example, who recently made an extremely homophobic video featuring the self-proclaimed “ Life Regenerator .” The video features them taking a shower together and making homophobic statements and gestures to each other. The Raw Brahs are, to their own admission, “ solar powered Christian raw food radically honest nomadic elitist minimalist brothers .” In a book entitled, The Raw Controversies , page 118 cites that, “According to David [Wolfe] , Durian was a gay guy that went raw, and then 'left the dark side' and decided to go for women. David and Stephen [Arlin] were convinced that homosexuality could be 'cured' by the raw food diet. More speci
Read more

Giveaway! Peta's Vegan College Cookbook

Image
Since I have been slacking on the frequency of my posts, as I am extremely busy and will continue to be for the next two weeks, I figured this would be a great time to make it up to all of you and give something away. In fact, I will give TWO things away!! Yes, I have in my hands two copies of PETA's Vegan College Cookbook and I must tell you that it's quite amazing. No, I'm not just saying that because I got a free copy ;) As most of you know, I'm pretty anti-cookbook because I feel most recipes are way too complicated and expensive, but this cookbook certainly debunks that theory. In fact, most of the recipes have about 5 or less ingredients and every recipe looks super quick, super easy, and super cheap! So, enough with the endorsement and on with the giveaway! What do you have to do to win a copy? Simply post a comment. That's all. I have two copies to give away and I will pick two random winners. Here's a preview of the prize at hand: So, post yo
Read more

Guest Blogger: Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M.

Since I've been running short on time lately, I thought now would be the perfect opportunity to invite a guest blogger on board. You might remember I interviewed Melanie back in August on Eating Consciously Podcast #13 . I've read the book and I give it five stars all the way! If you haven't pre-ordered it yet, I HIGHLY recommend that you do. Make sure you get a copy not only for yourself, but copies for the carnists in your life as well. Since this is a bit of a lengthy post, I won't take up too much more of your reading time, but I wanted to point out that you might be interested in watching this new two-minute video about the book: and now I'll let Melanie tell you a bit more about the book herself... Like most people, I grew up eating meat. I also grew up with a dog, who was my best friend throughout my childhood. And like most people, I didn’t think about how I could love my dog yet eat other animals daily without thinking about what I was doing or why.
Read more