Jason Anderson Cupcakes

Jason Anderson (http://jasonandersonswebsite.com/) is one sweet musician throwing some of the most energetic, intimate acoustic shows right at you-- aiming for the heart -- and the dude never misses. I saw him for the first time years ago when I attended Purchase College and I had the fine opportunity to see him a lot more since then, sing along with him, hang with him a bit and last month, make cupcakes for him!

He had a one-month long residency at Pete's Candy Store (http://www.petescandystore.com/home2.html), a wonderful venue in Brooklyn, where he would play a set every Thursday at 9pm. Hopefully, there will be more of those in the future!

Jason's vegan, hence I had a challenge: I set out to make treats for every show that were 100% vegan and organic.

Show #1: March 3, 2011

VEGAN Pineapple Brown Sugar Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcake with brown sugar soaked pineapple inside topped with brown sugar frosting. Melted Dum-Dum mosaic shards on top!

Show #2: March 10th, 2011

VEGAN Chocolate Banana Cupcakes
Vanilla banana cupcakes with chocolate chips and chocolate icing. Banana chip on top!

Show #3: March 17, 2011

This one I regrettably was not able to attend because I went to SXSW. But I hear it was amazing. Woe. Is. Me.

Show #4: March 24th, 2011

VEGAN "Hostess" Cupcakes

Chocolate cupcake with vanilla cream filling and chocolate fudge topping. Vanilla icing swirl on top!

Show #5: March 31, 2011

VEGAN Cheesecake with Tart Cherry Topping

Mini vegan cheesecakes with graham cracker crust with a homemade tart cherry topping.

Yeah, I didn't understand the possibility of this one either, but I figured it out. E-mail me if anyone wants the recipe!

Girl Scout Cookie Cupcakes!

For Church @ Legion Bar

Every last Sunday of every month, my friends Tom Berlangero & Mike Luciano hold an open mic at Legion Bar in Brooklyn. I try to make it there each time and bake something for the crowd.

For more info:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Church-At-Legion-Bar/173132729392124

S'moas Cupcakes!

Vanilla cake with a caramel & toasted coconut center and chocolate fudge swirl & caramel buttercream icing.

Thin Mint Cupcakes!

Chocolate cake with chocolate mint icing.

Julian's Cakes!

For Julian

Lauren, a longtime friend of the family hired me through my facebook album to make her son three cakes for his birthday! He was turning two years old and he was having three parties, all different themes. This was a fun one but also a tough one. Julian is allergic to eggs and milk so each cake had to be part vegan, part regular. Many details!

# 1 Eric Carle Cake

This was to be an interpretation from the author Eric Carle's two children's books "Brown bear, brown bears, what do you see?" & "Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear?" -- including the stripes and colors from his other books.

Cake: VEGAN vanilla cake, regular vanilla cake, vegan vanilla frosting, regular vanilla buttercream frosting

Details: White, blue, black, chocolate fondant. Rice Krispies (bears) Berry, apricot, strawberry & green apple sour stripes, chocolate chips & melted jolly rancher layer on top.

Here's a pic from above:

#2 Julian's Favorite Things Cake:

Cake: VEGAN vanilla cake, regular vanilla cake, vegan vanilla frosting, regular vanilla buttercream frosting.

Details to follow...

This one was for his actual birth DAY. Lauren gave me a list of things Julian enjoys, including:

Cheese-less pizza (gummies)

Legos (lego candy)
His scooter (blue fondant, one candy cigarette, one Good n' Plenty, Black Crow gummies)

Cupcakes! (a cupcake)

His elephant neck pillow (fondant)

His Ipad (fondant, vanilla icing)

"Wheels on the Bus" song. (rice krispies, mini-oreos, fondant)

#3 Click, Clack, Moo Cake

The weekend after Julian's birthday, his parents took him out to go see a play based on a popular children's book called "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type"

This is what we came up with for the cake:

Cake: VEGAN vanilla cake & regular vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream

Details: Black, white, red fondant. Red piping icing. And three non-edible, plastic toys.

Bustier Cake

For Laurie Pipitone

Laurie, my cousin, will be getting married in May. Her mom, Aunt Lisa (as I like to call her) hired me to make a sexy bustier cake for her surprise shower. Laurie works at Victoria's Secret and Aunt Lisa thought she would love something like this! I thought the boobs might be too big, but Laurie said they just right! Saying, "they weren't big enough" -- which made me feel okay about the huge boobs. No one should ever worry about boobs!

Cake: Chocolate raspberry & vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream frosting with fresh raspberries. Details: Black fondant, lilac piping icing, icing roses painted with silver luster dust, pearl sprinkles, black piping icing.

Metalocalypse Cake

For Olivia

Olivia's mom, Liz, hired me to make this cake for her daughter who was turning 20 years old. Olivia loves the show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim entitled "Metalocalypse" -- about a death metal band called Dethklok = Pretty heavy. That's the band's logo on the cake, along with some sweet flames all around the sides!

Cake: Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse & whipped cream layers.

Details: Black fondant, white, yellow & orange piping.

Space Cake!

Cake: Hershey's chocolate cake with Hershey's chocolate icing

Details: black and white fondant, white non-pareils, a half an orange, assorted gumballs jawbreakers and lollipops, wooden skewers.

For Mike Shissler

My good friend and roommate Mike Shissler was turning 24. Ashley and I wanted to make him something REAL GOOD. We went through great lengths to make this cake. Including late night car rides across the island, employing the help of Adrienne, Adrienne's next door neighbor, and our friend Dan -- which thankfully, they all came through in the best way possible! Thanks to everyone! And Ashley for baking the cake!

Now, this cake is 100% accurate! I studied the atmosphere like crazy to make this not just a cool looking cake, but a lesson is SPACE.

Also, Dan and I dressed like astronauts with metal bowls on our heads when we surprised Mike with his cake. Weirdest night of packing ever.

Bacon Cake!

For Heather Klose

"Get ready to die!" I exclaimed to my roommate Heather that was was turning 24! This girl, let's just say she has had a serious long-term relationship with Bacon. For Christmas, she made everyone a sack of chocolate-covered bacon, so she didn't shy away from meat covered in sweets. So why not make her a huge, chocolatey, bacon cake? -- and just to make it extra gross, a layer of snickers and a layer of crushed potato chips.

Salty, sweet, too much = delicious.

Cake: Chocolate cake with a layer of bacon, a layer of snickers bars, a layer of rippled potato chips with chocolate icing.

Details: All that stuff stuck on top.