VeganMofo day #26 - Reverse Spotted Devil Cat Cake

I was really busy the past couple days making a cake for my friend Heather's bday. It's a reverse spotted devil cat cake. Reverse because spotted devil cat is tan w/ brown spots.


It's has 2 layers using cupcake batter from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.

• 1.5 batches of marble cupcake batter
• 2.5 batches of vanilla cupcake batter

I forgot how many batches of chocolate buttercream I made. Total sugarfest.

The tan things on top are peanut butter balls that I made and cut in half. I dip mine in melted chocolate instead of a frosting mixture. Typically I then roll them in coconut, but not this time. I stuck them to the cake with vegan white chocolate. I highly recommend making these pb balls. they are very easy to make.

The lettering is also in white chocolate.

The cake was good, but not as much fun as cupcakes in my opinon ;-). The party was really fun. Not much of the cake was eaten because I think we cut it too late. Oh well, as long as I could leave the leftovers behind I was happy. We had a good time at the party. Some of us played scattegories, which turned out to be a funny game because of the people playing. Towards the end of the party we played a game called Mafia. It was really entertaining and only requires a deck of regular playing cards. I'm just an innocent commoner.

This is what I call a worm pile. The players change, but the results are the same. Sort of looks uncomfortable. Worm piles never consist of more than these 4 cats. The other 2 would not get this close to another cat. Once in a while Kobie will attract a wormpile.

This is the dirty look you will get if you take too many pictures.

Almost there.... random food

I'm almost caught up.

I bought the Joy of Vegan Cooking after seeing it mentioned on so many posts. I made the orange blueberry bundt cake. It was good. I added a simple orange juice and powdered sugar glaze because it looked sort of naked. I also had to add a bunch of oj and soy milk to the batter because it was more sconelike than cakelike. The cake came out great. Nice and moist. I think next time I will add lots more zest and maybe nuts.

This is an old standby in the house. It's a quick no bake key lime pie. I found this recipe on the internet. I use lots more lime juice until it tastes right. As you can see, I didn't let it set long enough and it broke apart. oops. I don't always use mori nu. any soft silken tofu will work well. I also use 2 lemon mori nu mates instead of 1 vanilla and 1 lemon.

I conducted a potato skin experiment. All of them had fake parmesan. One style had just plain fake cheese pieces, while the other (better tasting) had fake cheese and salsa mixed togehter. before putting in the oven, I sprayed them with olive oil. Sounds strange, but they will come out really dry and gross if you don't.

Here is some gnocci from Vegan with a Vengeance. YUMMMM... Very potatoy delicious and the best I've ever had. Probalby because it had real baked potatoes. I don't think restaurants take the time to do that. It freezes really well.