VeganMoFo Day 2: Cupcakes!

Since vegan cupcakes won the hearts of the judges on Cupcake Wars, they have been quite popular. A local coffee shop here in Arizona was actually on Cupcake Wars too, called The Coffee Shop, and they actually won!! Well, recently I was informed that they too are now offering vegan cupcakes! Two people, Jenna and Bobby, have formed a little business called Cruelty Free Cupcakes and they are offering them at The Coffee Shop. I was excited to see the variety in their cupcake menu since all we had around here was Sprinkles cupcakes who offer plain (BUT DELICIOUS!) red velvet cupcakes. The menu includes, but is not limited to:

• Red Velvet
• Chocolate with Chocolate Buttercream
• Chocolate Coconut
• German Chocolate
• Chocolate Raspberry Truffle
• Chocolate Sundae
• Mint Chocolate Oreo
• Carrot Cake
• Vanilla Bean
• Pina Colada
• Almond Joy
• Maple
• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip
• Strawberry Cheesecake
• Raspberry Lemon
• Fruit Loop
• Toffee Nut

My Grandma was nice enough to pick us up two cupcakes the other day from The Coffee Shop&Cruelty Free Cupcakes. She picked us up Rocky Road and Gingerbread.

 

Rock Road Cupcake

This is the Rocky Road cupcake. It was a chocolate cupcake with white frosting, almonds, chocolate syrup, and vegan marshmallows. (Dandies, I assume. :P) It was great! The cake is really moist and flavorful, and the frosting was really good. A lot of vegan frostings can just taste like a gob of Earth Balance, but this was really good.

 

Gingerbread Cupcake

This cupcake was delicious and adorable. It was a gingerbread cupcake with white frosting, a little gingerbread man, and edible glitter! I love the glitter added to it since I always see non-vegan cupcakes with the glitter and get sad because I can't have any. Anyways, this cupcake was so delicious too! It was moist, again, and the frosting was just right. The cake was a little spicy and a little sweet, just like gingerbread should be.

Then tonight we went back for more! I guess today was the vegan bakers day off, so there weren't many vegan cupcakes left. So we got the last gingerbread and then a rainbow sherbet! I was excited to try the sherbet one because the frosting is a few different colors swirled together with edible glitter on top!

 

Gingerbread cupcake (again) and Rainbow Sherbet cupcake

The picture doesn't do the rainbow sherbet cupcake justice, because the frosting is super bright and multi-colored. The picture isn't great because all I had was my cell phone, and I needed to devour the cakes immediately. Anyways, I already talked about the gingerbread, but the rainbow sherbet was really yummy. The cake was (I think) lightly flavored with orange, and the frosting tasted like cherry and another fruit. I don't really know what all the flavors were, but it was perfectly fruity and delicious! And again, the frosting did not taste like vegan butter.

I am so glad I found Cruelty Free Cupcakes and I can't wait to eat more!!

Link to coffee shop: The Coffee Shop AZ

Link to Cruelty Free Cupcakes: CrueltyFreeCake on Twitter

Link to Cupcake Wars: Cupcake Wars on Food Network