ohmygosh yum: vegan easter cupcakes!

Easter can be a little dull for vegan atheists like myself. I'm not a huge fan of vegan chocolate. It tends to be a little disappointing. Whenever I've been to the supermarket recently, I've found my self lingering a little while walking through the Easter egg aisle. While vegan chocolate may be a little disappointing, vegan baking definitely is not! So I decided to bake myself some easter-themed cupcakes. They are deeelish. Sure to cure any chocolate cravings Easter Sunday may bring on!



Cupcake Ingredients
2 cups of soy milk
2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar
1 and a half cups of sugar
2/3 cups of canola oil
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
2 cups of plain flour
1 cup of cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

Chocolate Eggs
1 egg mould - I bought mine from Let's Cook & on Little Bourke Street
125 grams of dairy free chocolate - I used Whittaker's

Icing Ingredients
110 grams Toffutti Better Than Cream Cheese
3-4 cups of icing Sugar

Chocolate Eggs Method
Break all of your chocolate into small pieces. Place a pot of boiling water on the stove top. Put your chocolate into a bowl and sit it on top of the saucepan. The bowl will heat up and the chocolate will melt. Keep stirring the mixture until all chocolate has dissolved. Then spoon the chocolate into the moulds. Put the mould into your fridge until the chocolate has set - this should take an hour or two.

Cupcake Method
Begin by whisking the soy milk and vinegar together in a bowl. Set the mixture aside for a few moments while it goes all curdley. Sift all of the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Gradually mix the soy milk mixture and the oil into the dry ingredients. Spoon the mixture into patty pans, filling them approximately 3/4 full. Pop them into a moderate oven for around 20 minutes.

Icing Method
Put your cream cheese into a medium bowl and add about 2 cups of icing sugar. Beat them together with an electric mixer. Gradually add more sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy. Continue to beat it until the sugar has dissolved completely.

Put the icing on top of the cupcakes in any way you desire and decorate with your chocolate eggs.



YUM! Happy Easter!

busy busy!

I am so busy busy at the moment! I'm constantly wishing I had a little more time on my hands. If I did have a little more time, I would love to attempt to recreate some of these pretties! This Wheels and Doll Baby dress is perfection and i just adore these sweet little bow ties!

smile

A friend posted this on facebook a few days ago. While I'm pretty sure Nelson Mandela wasn't referring to the crazy amounts of homework I have to do at the moment, it's definitely making me smile.



This super pretty print is available over here!

ohmygosh yum: Vegan Passionfruit Melting Moments!

We have a big, beautiful passionfruit vine that has been absolutely covered in fruit for a good few months now. I eat a few every day and just can't get enough delicious passionfruity goodness. On Sunday afternoon, however, I decided to mix it up a little and make some melting moments. I haven't had a melting moment in many a year, but these are just as good as I remember them to be! All buttery and crumbly and melty and delicious. As usual when I make a new recipe, I looked around at a bunch of recipes, both vegan (such as this'un) and non-vegan (like this one!). The recipe seems to be fairly universal - here is what I went with:

Biscuit Ingredients
250 grams of vegan margarine (eep not so healthy)
a few drops of vanilla extract
half a cup of icing sugar
one cup of custard powder - most supermarket varieties are vegan, but make sure you check the ingredients!
one cup of plain flour
three passionfruits

Icing Ingredients
two cups of icing sugar
a few teaspoons of margarine
around three passionfruits



Make your Cookies!
Begin by lining two trays with baking powder.
Cream the margarine, sugar and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl. Remove the seeds from your passionfruits and add them to the mixture. I did this by spooning the pulp into a sieve and then stirring it around and around above the bowl. The pulpy bits all came through and the seeds were left in the sieve. Gradually stir in the dry ingredients until your mixture forms a soft dough. Roll teaspoon-sized amounts of dough into balls and place them on your trays around 3cm apart. Gently press them down with a fork and bake them in a 150 degree oven for around 15 minutes. Allow them to cool on a wire rack before icing.



Make your Icing!
The icing is very simple! Pop the margarine and icing sugar in a bowl. Using an electric mixer, gradually add the passionfruit pulp, little bits at a time. You probably will probably only need about two. When the icing is light and fluffy, sandwich about a teaspoon-full between two cookies.











My Mama and I sat down to a little earl-grey and melting moment tea party. They are just the most perfect combination!

xxx

teacher clothes!

Excuse my absence of late, I have been busy busy learning how to be a teacher! Exciting! I'm currently spending two days a week on placement. And what does a new teacher need? Teacher clothes of course! Here are a few of my current favourites. Modest, tattoo-covering and super cute!

1.Topshop 2.American Apparel 3.American Apparel 4.General Pants Co. 5.Forever New 6.Alannah Hill 7.Dotti 8.Ray Bans 9.Topshop

Excuse my absence of late, I have been busy busy learning how to be a teacher! Exciting! I'm currently spending two days a week on placement. And what does a new teacher need? Teacher clothes of course! Here are a few of my current favourites. Modest, tattoo-covering and super cute!

this week on instagram

I finally started using my instagram this week, and eep I'm a little bit obsessed already!


1. re-living my year 7 love of paul frank 2. cupcakesss! 3. eeep! shopping for teacher clothes! 4. our package from mexico finally arrives along with a billion new stamps 5. presents from mexico! 6. i forgot how much i love to sew 7. all this hot weather calls for copious amounts of peach tea cordial 8. trips to the river! 9. mexican themed headwear for a mexican themed party 10. i preeeetty much live on home-grown passionfruits these days.

xxx