Saturday, October 4, 2008

VeganMofo - Jelly Donut Cupcakes FAIL


I had a little gathering to go to Friday night, so Thursday I decided to make Jelly Donut Cupcakes from Veganonicon. I happen to have all the ingredients on hand. Vegan baking is tricky because you often need things I don't generally have on hand. But this ingredient list was fairly simple - flour, soy milk, vinegar, sugar. I did have to make a substitution. For some reason, I was out of flour. I'm not sure how that happened, but I did have some spelt flour which work ok.

I'm a dork, I know, but I had mixed up the batter and THEN realized I didn't have cupcake wrappers. I figured I'd be ok and just grease and flour the pan. I don't think that was the result of the failure.

They baked up just fine, no problems, and they looked delicious. Once they cooled, I popped one out to try. I didn't want to bring horrible goodies to a party! Yeah, I'm a bit sensitive about my cooking. I want people to fall to their knees while one of my tasty treats melt in their mouth. Didn't know if the cupcakes would hold up to that lofty standard.

I popped one out and this is what I found - the jelly sunk all the way to the bottom of the cup and left a puddle of jellied sugar. Aye me, a baking failure!! Now, I used homemade jelly, so that might be a problem, Maybe you need commercial goo to have it set up right. Some magical component in store-bought sweetness, I'm not sure. I did eat one, and they're a bit dry and mellow tasting. Not bad. Just not what I wanted.

I hate when I fail. *pouts*

7 comments:

Karyn said...

Haha, I've also had my fails this mofo. But that is how I learn, and also how I excuse myself for eating an entire pan of blondies at once (not good enough to share wth friends!)

Mimi said...

Its just a shame! I must now eat an entire pan of cupcakes! They actually taste pretty good. Not as light and fluffy as donuts, but pretty good, and the spelt flour gives it a nice nutty hint

Cody said...

I plan on trying the Jelly Donut Cupcakes for the first time a little later... and I'm afraid they'll fail. I don't have much hope of being one of the sorcerers that can make it work.

Mimi said...

There is no try, there is only do (apply Yoda voice of course!)

I found the batter a bit thin, so maybe skimp on the liquid or boost the flour?

Bethany said...

that's a bummer. i hate the disasters because they take just as much work as the successes. Oh well, as long as you keep on trucking ;-).

Mimi said...

They were tasty despite being unpretty. No happy jelly surprise, but I still ate them. The bummer is I wanted to bring them to a pot luck type thing, and the were NOT pretty enough to bring!

Bethany said...

unpretty but tasty is something. at least you get to enjoy them.

Potlucks are fun, but I agree that there is a bar.