Vegan MoFo Day 31- Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all my Vegan MoFo buddies - it's been a fun crazy ride. See you next year!

Vegan MoFo IV: Day 1

Yo MoFo'ers!

It's that time of year again - the time when the blogosphere goes vegan crazy as vegan bloggers from around the globe pledge to blog about all things vegan as much as is humanly possible during the month of November. OK OK so it's usually the month of October but that is just a minor detail.

Most years I deliberate about whether to have a theme for MoFo or not and usually the answer is "not" and this year the answer is still "not".

What can I say - I'm just not very good at making decisions of such importance.

What you will see within this blog for the next 30 days is what I get up to in the kitchen and around the home and in my life in general. Believe me it is a very exciting life I live and you are all lucky lucky people to get a glimpse into all this wonderfullness. 

AHEM.

And to kick off this years MoFo I give you Skeleton Gingerbread Men. Cool huh!

I used this recipe here but the design was totally inspired by Shellyfish from 2 MoFo's ago!

My evil army of Gingerbread Skeletons taking a well deserved break before the Halloween mayhem begins.

 They were so evil they had to be destroyed!

Go MoFo!!

Vegan MoFo 2009 Day #29: Hallow-vegan Cake

Totally inspired by River's awesome little cakes was I. There are two layers of the Fauxstess Cupcake recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance, layered between that is vegan buttercream. The same buttercream is spread round 3 sides of the cake and then I dragged a fork around the three sides to make the pages. The top and spine of the book is made using Ginger's Chocolate Ganache recipe. I had a little buttercream left over so I chucked this in too. This should keep the ghouls happy this Halloween!! GO VEGAN! GO MoFo!!

Well rested and Raring to go!

Oooh it was weird not typing vegan MoFo as the title.....it felt so natural to do so.

Well it's November chaps and chapesses and the days are getting as short as they are cold. Nature tends to kick in and take over our bodies through the Winter Months - making us crave stodgy foods that will help keep us warm with some extra insulation. I don't know about anyone else but I am amply insulated enough as it is and after MoFo all my body was craving was SALAD!! Yep - you heard me - nice crisp green Lettuce Leaves with a juicy red Tomato and LOADS of Cauliflower Salad to boot. Boy was it ever good and I'm going to have the same for lunch today as well. It's interesting to note that it is all raw too!

RAWR!

And as promised prior to Halloween, a photo of the Spider Cake I made.

He looks good but I wasn't impressed with the Cake mixture and would NOT make this again. I only own Veganomicon and Vegan with a Vengeance cook books so I rely heavily on the interwebs for recipes - if anyone has a tried and tested and LOVED Sponge Cake recipe you could share with me I would be truly grateful. Thankfully everyone was well inebriated when he got sliced up and failed to notice what I noticed - maybe my taste buds are more sensitive than omni's anyway? Who knows! I didn't like it and that is enough for me, or maybe EVERYONE didn't like it but were all too polite to say!! Maybe I have scarred them against Vegan Cake for life!! Oh the paranoia has set in!!