Cruelty free cupcakes
Waking up at 8 am on a Sunday is painful. Not just any Sunday, the
Sunday it decided to turn from unseasonably warm into eyelashes
freezing cold. But my reasons for doing so are noble and true. I am
baking cupcakes for my nephew's first birthday! The thing is, he can't
eat them because he's only one. So I am going to make some sort of
crispy rice, brown rice syrup concoction for him and chocolate cupcakes
for the rest. What a way to break the news to him that life isn't
always cupcakes and comfy sweatshirts and water taxis across the East
River. Some times it's brown rice balls and 18 layers and wet frozen
feet waiting for the Q train.
And speaking of cupcakes, this is as good a time as any to announce our
next book: Vegan Cupcake! I say “our” because Terry is writing it with
me. And I say “Vegan Cupcake” because I haven't come up with a title
for it yet but I can assure you that it will 100% pure cupcake. It's
not going to be a huge book - about 30 cupcake recipes all with
photography (which I am so happy about!) and an extensive section on
decorating and crafting the little darlings. It's going to be released
in Fall '06 which incidently will be around the same time that we put
all other cupcake franchizes out of business.
