Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World Part 3

And the conclusion is that these cupcakes could possibly take over the world. Domination is near. Today was a rough day, August (aka Fuss) was living up to his alias. How did I manage to make cupcakes? I really don't know, I almost didn't make dinner let alone cupcakes. It didn't help that I ran out of vanilla and Pete had to stop and grab some on the way home. DAMMIT! I was JUST at the store yesterday! Don't you hate that? Anyway, hell or high water, cupcakes got made (albeit with the soothing sound of screaming in the background). I am still keeping it simple. I wanted to test out my new pastry bag and tip. The pastry bag I got is a bit too big I think, but it worked ok, it was just hard to clean. I think it is meant for cakes, where you are doing a lot of icing. I bought 5 tips, the one I used tonight I believe is a No. 22 (it's not in front of me so don't hold me to it and I am not about to get my ass out of bed to check). It was marvelous fun to swirl luscious mounds of heart stopping butter cream frosting on lovely little chocolate cakes. I found some bunny baking cups, but I think they will be better served with a light colored cupcake, the darkness of the chocolate made the design disappear. They really are precious little things, cupcakes. I even gave them some sprinkles, you know, to give them some bling.


So 3 different attempts (so far) and all are absolutely de-fucking-licious. Now the bad, the cookbook drives me insane. It is a sweet little cookbook and the design and photo's are awesome, BUT...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! WHY? do authors/publishers of some cookbooks wrap the recipes around to the next page. It is a GIANT pet peeve of mine. So absolutely irritating to have to flip the page. Almost all the recipes in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World wrap around. If I were an editor of cookbooks I would avoid this at all costs. The recipes only take 2 pages in this book so it would have been easy to have them all on facing pages. Maybe the revised edition will address this annoyance.