schemingreader: (Default)
[personal profile] schemingreader
My husband, who doesn't actually believe in Hanukah presents, handed me a wrapped package tonight. It was a copy of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World! I have been talking about it for MONTHS and never bought it for myself. (It's by [livejournal.com profile] isachandra, member of my flist and author of the very popular Vegan with a Vengeance.)

It's so beautiful and funny! It has all kinds of recipes for special needs: gluten free vegan cupcakes, low-fat vegan cupcakes, etc. etc. Oooh, lime! Chai! Lychee! Pistacho-rosewater!

Eeeeee!

I'm going to need to buy some equipment! She says that a quick-release ice cream scooper is a good tool for making cupcakes.

Are you going to come over?

Date: 2006-12-22 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfgirljen.livejournal.com
I glanced at the first and saw Virgin Cupcakes!

I think I need more tea or new glasses

Date: 2006-12-22 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Aren't all cupcakes kind of virginal?

This book has a recipe for Margarita Cupcakes! You edge them with sugar crystals so they look just like the drink with a sugared rim.

Date: 2006-12-22 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magnetic-pole.livejournal.com
OMG, vegan cupcakes take over the world. I love that. I hope they do.

We have a new vegan bakery right by my house, Sticky Fingers. Just FYI, for your next trip to DC.

Happy Hanukkah! M.

Date: 2006-12-22 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Oooh, wouldn't that be fun, to come to DC? Seems quite unlikely just now. :(

Date: 2006-12-22 07:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] owens-mom.livejournal.com
Yay! I made the ginger/carrot/macadamia/coconut cake out of VwV and it was so nummy!

Date: 2006-12-22 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Oh, that's good to know! I have that book and haven't tried that cake recipe yet. I got a lot of milage out of just a few recipes in that one. Not only culinary milage: my son and I have fun just saying "punk rock chickpea gravy."

Date: 2006-12-22 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] islandsmoke.livejournal.com
I'm on my way!

Date: 2006-12-22 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Hee! Yes, you really could come for a visit. I am working downtown these days, so if you get bored sometime and want to make a trip to Boston, you could have lunch with me pretty easily. (And then go off to one of our cultural attractions!) I can't promise I'll have made cupcakes by then. I haven't had much time to fulfill domestic responsibilities lately.

Profile

schemingreader: (Default)
schemingreader

January 2014

S M T W T F S
    1234
567891011
12131415161718
1920212223 2425
262728293031 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Feb. 24th, 2026 10:39 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios