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Holiday Treats: The Kids and the Cupcakes
For my class holiday party I needed a batch of bright, kid-friendly Christmas cupcakes. Thanks to N.Y. Cake and their bright gel coloring (also used for the World Cupcakes), my cakes were a rich wintery green. Let’s hear it for artificial coloring! When you have a green cake, you need red icing. Below is a [...]
Torch Yr Own: Vegan Crème Brûlée
Burning your own dessert with a butane torch is not only exciting, it is an interactive way to spark up a holiday potluck! After committing to this dessert some time ago and purchasing all the special supplies {10 ramekins, butane torch, butane, arrowroot, fruit sugar, etc}, it was time to bring it on. Despite my [...]
Lotza Vegan Latkes
We celebrated Chanukah in my classroom last week. That meant the motherload of potato latkes, fried to perfection right there next to the math bulletin board. Though the wonderful morning already seems like months ago, the classroom still smells of bubbling oil. My kids’ parents are awesome at making sure I get to eat and [...]
Deep Fryday
Deep-fried vegan Twinkies. Deep-fried vegan chocolate bars. Deep-fried vegan cupcakes {not pictured, eaten too soon} The Electrician and his dedicated fryer crisped up a slew of vegan goodies for Deep Fryday, proving that vegans can be greasy and gluttonous too. In my quest to never sacrifice for my eating ethics, I may check the realm [...]
In Two Words: Thanks. Giving.
Maple. Buttercream. Sloppy. Piping. Cinnamon. Snow. Wheatmeat. Croute. “Who’ll. Win?” Left. Over. Weekend. Morning. Super. Pretzels.
From Pumpkin to Cake
Two little pumpkins have sat on my desk at work since I thought “Pumpkins! Already?!” Now Halloween is long gone and Thanksgiving is upon us. I brought those cute little pumpkins home today to help me bake up some seasonal cupcakes for my grade’s Thanksgiving Feast, the first of the cupcake marathons the holiday will [...]
Thanks. Again.
It’s funny how much we can pack into a year. And how, stuffed and sluggish with our heavy days, routine trivialities can pull us away from that which we most value. The fundamentals… Beyond our myopia. A sharp left from the winker. Through the man-made distractions. And other such comparative prepositional phrases. Gratitude is an [...]
Twin Peaks Halloween
All photos by Artsparrow and her life partner. Shelly, Denise Bryson, Bob, Laura, Agent Cooper & AudreySpecial Agent Coop & Audrey Horne; Heavenly berry pie: Dale Cooper and Laura PalmerBobCoopBob attacksLaura, Coop, ZebraAudreyAudrey Horne, Shelly Johnson, Laura PalmerAaaaaah!Bob and Laura
Annual Repost: Perhaps Labor Day Doesn’t Come From a Store. Perhaps Labor Day means a bit more.
As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. With the long hours and [...]
Embodying Freedom
Peace, rest, relaxation and pedicures involving American flags! It’s Fourth of July, Colorado family-style. Woken up by the dapper feline Kramer, Independence Day started with a deep long meow. It was a good thing too as top on the day’s itinerary was Om Time‘s Firecracker Flow, a strenuous two-hour yoga session in one of Boulder, [...]
Happy Father’s Day c/o Orange Glazed Scones
My family gets to try a lot of my goodies. I bet my this fact doesn’t excite them half as much as it excites me to have an opportunity to bake! For Father’s Day I knew I needed to switch up my usual offering of cupcakes to account for the fact that the house is [...]
