Yes, I am a little early with my valentine salutations, but today my three sons and I entered some pieces in a food art competition held at our local public art gallery. If you follow me on Facebook you already know that my concept was to make Sweetheart candies out of cake and emblazon them with vegan slogans. The idea was to juxtapose the familiar colours and shapes of the candies with the more shocking realities of eating animals, and I figured since it was being displayed at an art gallery I could get away with it. I guess the concept worked because I took home first prize! I tried out this recipe for the cake: it was durable (and therefore perfect for this project) but chewy. A little more oil needed, perhaps, or just more liquid in general. I used this buttercream fondant recipe for the icing: it worked perfectly but did not taste very good. Perhaps a 50:50 margarine to vegetable shortening mix is needed.
Son #1 made these mini cupcakes (chocolate from VCTOTW), decorated to look like a box of chocolates.
Son #2 made this "cup"cake. I baked the batter right in the cup with the spoon and all, and he added the topping and chocolate shavings.
Son #3 decorated this little heart cake. Too cute!
So have some fun with your food this Valentine's Day. I don't suggest giving your sweetie a cake with E. coli stamped into it . . . unless that is his or her thing.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day
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Congratulations on taking 1st place! Score for the vegans! Great idea, super cute!
These are awesome!!! Congratulations! And your sons are very talented :)
Your mini heart cakes look incredible! & I love the idea of a "cup" cake baked right into a bug. Genius! Happy VDay!
Awesome- congratulations!
Great work by all! Way to go, guys!
These are beautiful valentines! Your sons are quite talented, like their father - congratulations! (On them and on the 1st prize!)
I love your 'candy' hearts, and that 'cup' cake!
That all looks awesome! Congrats on the prize! Off to bake some Valentine's Day treats ...
Gorgeous!
Beautiful! I love each one! I'll have to give the cake recipe a try.
That's awesome and everything looks great! I made some vegan conversation hearts last week and I'm so excited to leave them for my partner to find whilst I'm on a plane back home tomorrow (they're ridiculous).
I LOVE your entries. Hope you win.
I absolutely LOVE that "cup"cake. Great idea!
Fantastic cake ideas! Congrats on 1st. prize and yeah so adorable.
Congratulations on taking first prize! They look great and so arty! Your sons are totally following in Dad's footsteps, their creations all look awesome too! :-)
Too cool for school. Literally.
What a great way to get a wonderful message across to people. That is so great that you won!
It's so nice to see all of your boys decorating and baking with you. All of their cupcakes looks great!!!
Congratulations! This looks like a great family project.
Awesome :] I may try baking a "cup" cake, myself.
How completely awesome! Love them all. What a talented family you have.
This looks wonderful. Delicious too. What a great idea.
Wow, these are great! I especially like the cake in a cup!
just wanted to say thanks for blogging. i love your recipes, esp. the faux meats. happy v dat to you.
Congrats on the win, very cool way to 'spread' the message! Have a great Valentine's Day!
i love the idea of baking right in a teacup complete with spoon! so cute.
That's so odd...I've been thinking about using that same fondant recipe for a while. I wonder why it didn't taste that great? It's full of sugar!
Your son's creations look amazing! I think they should open up a bakery and call it Vegan Dad & Sons!
What a great sick, twisted take on those little hearts! I'm glad you won!
love the "cup"cake! and besides, just wanted to stop in and say thanks for all the yummies through the years... they've been wonderfully inspiring.
arielle silver
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Congrats on the prize. I'm amazed how gorgeous the lettering worked. I tried something similar and it was definitely NOT so successful.
That "cup" cake creation is just brilliant! It would make for a great gift...both edible and permanent (the mug)!
Very cute post that's a great intoduction to your blog for a first-time reader :)
The e.coli cookie made me think of the doco 'Food Inc.' which I recently purchased and watched... and the e.coli outbreak in spinach and lettuce in 2006 freaked me out.
Kudos to living what my BF assures me is a very difficult lifestyle to maintain in the US of A!
~B.
bekkitae.blogspot.com
So cute! All of them!!
Too cute! Love all the cakes, especially the teacup one!
Truly outstanding!!
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