So many beautiful cupcakes were posted over the holidays I don’t know where to begin. I suppose you could do worse than these Lemon Gem cupcakes with precious little cut out flowers from lemon peels. This was truly an “I wish I had thought of that” moment. Let it hereby be known that teenytinyturkey is a genius.

PS Lemon Gems are from Vegan with a Vengeance, not from Vegan Cupcakes, just in case you were wondering if you were missing a page.

This “turkey” is just too cute not to recognize. It's seitan covered with stuffing and wrapped in dough and baked.

Since “redonkulous” will be retired in 2007 I figured I would use it one last time. Here is Fizzle disrupting my cupcake photo shoot. These are jelly donut cupcakes. Just when we thought it was over VegNews asked us to give them 5 new cupcake recipes for their April issue so back to cupcake liners we go.

The photo shoot went okay, anyways. As for the cupcakes themselves, they tasted just like donuts! And the dollop of jam that is baked into them gives them a donut appearance. So operation jelly donut cupcake was a smashing success even if Fizzle tried to sabotage.

A dancing snowman on top of a blue cupcake. Well, in my mind he’s dancing, he could be reading poetry, too. Read QuintanaRoo’s saga here, she mentions Dresden Dolls and David Lynch in one parenthetical sentence.

I didn’t make this because I’m Jewish, but look how cool it. Usually on the ppk message boards we just talk about sex and tv, but once in awhile advice gets given and things get baked, and that’s refreshing.

I always come across doubters saying that Indian restaurants who say they use vegan ghee are lying. Now, a world where waiters just go around lying willy nilly is scary enough but that same world without vegan ghee is ever scarier. But last week I found it, the last piece in the puzzle of veganism. In a little Indian grocery on 1st avenue between 5th and 6th streets, shelves and shelves of vegan ghee! It's essentially palm and soybeans oil and 2.2 pounds cost 5.75, so it might be a good alternative for earth balance in your baking. Here is the photographic evidence:

After doing some research (googling once) I found that Dalda is a Unilever brand, and I try to avoid anything that Chumbawumba has written songs against, but oh well. Here's the lyrics in case you don't want a bunch of pop up adds.

When you don't want to feed the world
When you just want to feed your bank balance
Wash your guilt away:
UNILEVER WASHES WHITER!
Soap to clean those dirty hands
And a slap for the people who work the land
Unilever
Man-made hunger
Soap in our eyes
John West is the Best!
Old soap opera
No soap reality
Legal slave trade
Domestos kills all known truths dead
Soap to wash the darkest stain
Profit covers up the pain
Of a slow, deliberate genocide
And all the dirt you want to hide
Take the black and wash it whiter
Brooke Bond Oxo
Blue Band, Bird's Eye
Lifebuoy, Sunsilk
Persil washes Whiter!
We make whitewash
We sell whitewash
Consume whitewash
Consumed by whitewash
Somewhere in this cycle there's me and you
What are we prepared to do?

Deidre Jean posted this about a week ago and ever since I’ve been thinking “I have to post it on the blog, I have to post it on the blog.” And whenever I nag myself with something I refuse to do it. But now that I’ve stopped nagging myself I can freely post it on the blog.

“This ‘japanese style’ cupcake is the basic yellow cake from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World with the “butter cream” frosting, both flavored with coconut extract. The ‘rice’ is coconut, the ‘fish’ are swedish, the ‘wasabi’ is marzipan, and don’t eat the plastic grass.”

I know I've been really bad about keeping up the recipes section of this site. But it's updated for winter with 3 new soup recipes from our next cookbook. Do try them out!

Acorn Squash, Pear and Aduki Soup with Sauteed Shiitakes

This is really awesome! A burgers and fries comic strip type thing featuring VwaV burgers and homemade french fries. And I don't only think it's cool because VwaV is in it, I would think so anyway. Swear.

PS We never did end up on Splendid Table, even though we spent all day taping the segment. I guess the world just isn't ready. Whatever, the internet is, so that's good enough.

And so it was written. And so it shall be done. Look to the clouds, other signs will surely follow. Our day is coming.