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Egg-Free, Vegan Royal Icing
Royal icing is not the sort of icing that you use to cover a cake. It dries hard, but the meringue within it keeps it lightweight, making it just right for making flowers or other piped, edible...
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Egg-Free, Gelatin-Free, Vegan Gumpaste
Gumpaste is an edible, pliable dough that dries hard. It can be used to make molded figures that will hold fine detail, or it can be rolled out to make fine flower petals and leaves. Conventional...
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Vegan Golden Vanilla Cupcakes with Vegan Strawberry Italian Meringue Buttercream
This post is just a tease, really, because it doesn’t contain any recipes or anything. It’s the result of trying out a new-to-me recipe (the highly-acclaimed Golden Vanilla Cupcakes recipe from the...
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Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegan Italian Meringue Buttercream
Italian Meringue Buttercream without eggs or dairy? Impossible, you say? Not with the miracle of aqua faba (the liquid drained from a can of beans)! If you’ve never had Italian Meringue Buttercream...
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Vegan Chocolate Midnight Cupcakes with Italian Meringue Buttercream
Having made a huge batch of Vegan Italian Meringue Buttercream in the process of writing up my recent blog post, I needed to put some of it to good use. Clearly cupcakes were in order. Chocolate cake...
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Rose Swirl Cake
I’ve been wanting to try out the rose swirl technique, and a friend’s upcoming birthday was a perfect excuse. Not bad for a first try. This technique is incredibly simple, and creates a stunning...
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Chocolate Stout Cake Trials
I’ve been working really hard on a recipe for a vegan chocolate stout cake. The current version tastes delicious, but the texture just isn’t right yet, so it’s really just not ready for prime time. I...
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Vegan Snowman Cake
This vegan snowman cake was made by special request of a 5-year-old birthday boy. The bottom sphere is Rebecca August’s excellent Chocolate Midnight Cake, and the chest and head are Rebecca’s vanilla...
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Egg-Free, Vegan Royal Icing
Royal icing is not the sort of icing that you use to cover a cake. It dries hard, but the meringue within it keeps it lightweight, making it just right for making flowers or other piped, edible...
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Egg-Free, Gelatin-Free, Vegan Gumpaste
Gumpaste is an edible, pliable dough that dries hard. It can be used to make molded figures that will hold fine detail, or it can be rolled out to make fine flower petals and leaves. Conventional...
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Vegan Golden Vanilla Cupcakes with Vegan Strawberry Italian Meringue Buttercream
This post is just a tease, really, because it doesn’t contain any recipes or anything. It’s the result of trying out a new-to-me recipe (the highly-acclaimed Golden Vanilla Cupcakes recipe from the...
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Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegan Italian Meringue Buttercream
Italian Meringue Buttercream without eggs or dairy? Impossible, you say? Not with the miracle of aqua faba (the liquid drained from a can of beans)! If you’ve never had Italian Meringue Buttercream...
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