Vegans Need Love Too!

We got a request to make a whole mess of vegan treats for a friend's daughter's third birthday party.  I used to be vegan myself, so I brought my knowledge of vegan baking to Holly's Pie Hole.  I haven't done any vegan baking in a while, so I was honestly a little nervous.  However, I think our customer will be really happy with the results.

I would like to say that we do not normally do cakes.  There are several reasons.
1.  In order to make a profit, we have to charge a good amount for cakes.  That wouldn't ordinarily be a big deal to me but...
2.  We are not cake decorators.  Neither of us really knows how to properly decorate a cake, and we feel bad charging someone what we would charge for a cake that isn't beautifully decorated.
3.  We like to stick to smaller scaled things at the moment.  It's just us two, so we have to bust our asses sometimes just to get something as simple as cupcakes and cookies out to clients, especially if we have things going on in our personal lives or a lot of orders around the same time.  To put the pressure of making a beautiful cake on ourselves is not something we care to do.
4.  There are FAR too many bakeries who can do a better job at decorating than we can.  We pride ourselves in being completely organic when possible and in bringing you interesting flavors, not in creating art out of cakes.  We know our limits.

I consulted with our customer about the cake, and let her know that we couldn't offer a fancy cake, but could guarantee it would taste good.  I made sure she understood that a cake baked by us wouldn't be fancily decorated, and that the extent of my cake decorating was spreading frosting, and MAYBE writing a little message.  As this is for a young girl's party, she didn't need anything elaborate, so we agreed.  As you can see below, the cake came out okay, but it's nothing fancy.  The customer really likes it, by the way (and a candle is going in that big space there.), so that makes me happy.

Pictured below is our vegan Bollywood batter.  I think I may actually like it better than the regular; you can really taste the cardamom in these babies.

I can't tell you how many times this stuff has saved my life in my past vegan life.  It works so well in baking!

Pictured below are our famous Bollywood whoopee pies and our Lemon Drop whoopee pies.  These are vegan as well.

I had such fun baking these vegan treats.  I hope some of our vegan friends and possibly vegan readers in the area will order from us.  It' was nice to get back on the saddle with these!