Popchips!

I spent some time at popchips head office in san francisco in august for the yearly snackers summit (read annual employee conference).

popchips. Cupcakes. Ashton Kutcher... all in one day? What more could a girl ask for? By the way, the one in the photo below was key lime pie...

Birthday Cupcakes

I don't remember what flavours these were, but I do remember they were freakin' delicious.

My lovely friends at Manifesto Community Projects bought these for my for my 28th birthday from the Red Tea Box.

Kitchenaid

For our engagement, Tristan and I received the most wonderful gift from my cousin's... a stainless steel Kitchenaid standup mixer! I've wanted one of these to call my own since I was a young child, and I feel like it signifies my first big steps into adulthood (along with becoming a homeowner and getting engaged)...

Surprisingly, the first thing I made with the mixer wasn't cupcakes, but vegan chocolate chip cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar! Hazaa!

The Cake Boss

Tristan's parents bought us tickets to go see the Cake Boss in Waterloo last year. While I had heard of the Boss, I'd never watched is show... but friends kept telling me it was a pretty big deal, and I quickly learned just how big a deal after seeing the throngs of fans with signs and tshirts!

We had a great time, and sat pretty much in the front row. Tristan's dad was actually selected from the crowd to participate in the men's cupcake decorating contest!

Here's a photo of the final product, which of course he gave to me... I can tell you the cake was pretty delicious (fluffy and slightly salty) but the frosting was terrible! I don't think it helped that it was stacked just as thick as the cupcake itself either...

I'm getting married!

So one of those amazing things that kept me away from this blog was my not-so-recent engagement to my now fiance, Tristan! To celebrate, my parents hosted a fun afternoon at Lucky Strike bowling alley with our extended family.

The occassion was catered, but I also whipped up some mini-cupcakes for dessert.

Vegan lemon cupcakes with vanilla frosting...

Vegan double chocolate...

Vegan apple spice (eek - you should've seen the icing for this... It got all melty and lost its shape, but I fixed them up with some vanilla drizzle and I think they turned out the nicest in the end!)

Dark chocolate mint...

Koyama Press

Last October I was asked by Koyama Press to cater the double book launch for Wowee Zonk's "Wowee Zonk 3" and Tin Can Forest's "Baba Yaga and the Wolf" at the The Central on Markham St with some vegan goodies!

I made some lemon raspberry mini-cupcakes (topped with raspberries and lemon zest)...

...some double chocolate minis, and dark chocolate mint mini-cupcakes...

and I also made some gluten free chocolate chip cookies, and vegan chocolate peanut butter pillows!

All in all, it was a great night of art and eating. Though the event is over now, here are some links to the event/artists.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160796723932000
http://woweezonk.blogspot.com/
http://tincanforest.com/

Vegan Cupcakes @ The Mascot

An old friend of mine runs this amazing little cafe in Parkdale called The Mascot.

I used to work just down the street from there, and I can't tell you how many times I've had friends/clients buy me one of their vegan cupcakes enroute to my old studio. I guess vegan cupcakes are hard to come by, and I'm kind of a fiend...

Here's a pic of their chocolate cupcake with purple icing. Note: someone took a bit out of it while I was away from my desk (ahem, Che)...

Anyway go check it out if you're in the neighbourhood! They're good people.