you can't have these cupcakes (yet)

I went to a wedding at Scienceworks last week! Scienceworks is a pretty cool venue for a party, I had lots of fun taking photos and hanging out with the gauges and stuff.

Although the wedding was not vegan, and it was just a cocktails kind of party, I found that I was amply catered for. There was a vegan version of most of the little courses, and the person with the vego/vegan platter would always try to find me first so I got something, and that was all very lovely. And then, there were the cupcakes.



Ant's sister Cate, who is not actually a baker (though aspires to running a cupcakery + confectionary), made this amazing cupcake tower for the party. Here is what makes this cupcake tower so amazing, though. The level that I could eat was not, in fact, the bottom, plain chocolate (mudcake) cupcake layer. Oh no.

It was the blackforrest cupcake layer.



Basically, this was so amazing that I can't wait until she has an actual cupcake shop so I can eat this all the time. And try making it. And so other vegans I know can employ her to bake for their parties. This was SO GOOD.

Also, I love it so much when my non-vegan friends make sure that I am just as over-the-top catered for as everyone else.

back blog: election day sushi

Many weeks ago we had a federal election! As is my preference, I headed off to an election night party, to eat food and watch Mr Anthony Green (Australia's most awesome election commentator) talk about the results as he analysed them live to air.

Unrelated to my love of Anthony Green, but related to my love of the Australian Greens, I made green sushi to take with me to this election night party!



I was worried that this would be weird, but in fact it was not. It didn't change anything about the sushi, except imbued them with awesomeness.

These sushi were also filled with some green things, such as avocado and cucumber, and some non green things.

birthday noms for dr a

Due to uni, rotations and various other commitments, although it was Dr A's birthday two weeks ago, we only just got around to celebrating with him yesterday.

We started with the essential fairy bread:



This is a necessary part of any birthday party. At work people mock me for providing fairy bread, but it is always the first plate of food to be finished! Because it is basically sugar and whitebread, zero nutritional value but filled with deliciousness!

An attempt at substance was provided by sausage rolls and pizza:



I made the sausage roll mix the previous afternoon, and in the morning thawed the puff pastry and rolled the rolls. As previously, the sausage roll mix was from a recipe by vegetation, very slightly modified. Pizza base was made by D in the morning and left to rise for a little bit.

The food was rounded out by the almond cake from My Sweet Vegan. The cake was okay, very goopy when making it and very heavy when eating it, and I didn't enjoy the ganache at all. So although everyone else seemed to like it (UNLESS THEY WERE LYING), I'm not sure this one will be a repeat.