GET VEGAN DANISHES IN NYC! and the NYC Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti...

PB & J Danish.

Cherry Cheese Danish.

Blueberry Danish.

hi everybody,

i'd like to announce that i am going to re-start selling flaky,puffy,buttery,delicious vegan danishes,like i was in vancouver,here in NYC.

if you or anybody you know are interested,please don't hesitateto contact me through email at insideoutelephant@hotmailcom or via the blog.

i've had a few orders to far,and am very flexible,and c'mon,where else are you gonna get a vegan danish here?especially ones this good?

look at that flaky pastry...how could you resist?!

here's an assortment of varieties of danishes i've made in the past couple weeks:

apricot almond.

banana pecan.

chocolate cream cheese.

crunchy peanut butter.

pb&j.

chunky cherry.

mmmm.

and also,exciting,there is CROISSANTS! too!

croissants.

mini chocolate croissants!

so don't be shy!

and in other (danish related,too) news, last weekend i baked for and volunteered at the super-awesome...

NYC Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti.

it was madness!i had never been to a bake sale so huge,vegan or not.there was a million different amazing desserts,and it was very busy.it ended up raising over $5,000!

great job to and big thanks to everybody who organized it and help out,i can't believe those people made it so big,and got so many donations and everything else.

plates o' berry cream cheese danishes at the bake sale.

i decided to bake danishes for the sale!i made blueberry,cherry,raspberry,strawberry,all with a cream cheese filling,pb&j,and some variations of the fruit flavours but with nuts.

name tag.

there was so many great volunteers-so i was relegated to 'photographer' and took pictures for hours,ate sweets,and kept nagging people trying to offer help with something because i felt bad.

check out the 100+ photo set here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/evanmcgraw/sets/72157623204779529/

here's some highlights-if there's bite marks in it,it's probably one of the things i got to eat.it was all for a good cause-okay?!

amazing sugar cookies.just like i used to get at albertsons.

gumdrop.

sarah sarchan made an amazing chick o stick cake!!!

fauxstesses.

peanut butter chocolate cheesecake.

pizzelles.

only a few of the goods...

buckeye.

peanut butter fudge.

red bean buns.

hey.

a few people who made the whole thing possible...

still warm.

epic,no?

Vegan MoFo Day#13-Peanut Butter S'mores and Proof that Rachael Ray DOES Have Good Taste and Is The Genius I Think She Is...

Sweet and Sara Peanut Butter S'mores.

so,you probably know that i'm a pretty big sweet and sara vegan marshmallow fan, as well as a huge fan of rachael ray, despite so many vegans hating her. once i even arranged for an internet friend to mail me a sample size bottle of her own evoo.

anyways, did you see?yesterday on her show, not just the classic s'mores, but the sweet and sara peanut butter s'mores was the "snack of the day".

proof,afterall,that ray ray is a genius with great taste buds.you go rayray!

i wrote about these last year for mofo,and even took pictures in a photobooth eating one.they're the best.not just a peanut butter cookie bottom,but the graham cracker AND a thick layer of peanut butter filling/spread.yummo,indeed.

and speaking of sweet and sara,back in june when visiting portland for the let live animal rights conference and just general good times,jess and i tried these:

they're were like fluffy cinnamon toast crunch.phenomenal.

that was also the trip that i made and brought s'mores danishes with some sweet and saras and some dandies.

and with some marshies i had brian pick me up before he visited in may.

oh,and lest we forgot,the s'mores cake i made in march'08 for my little brother's birthday:

yummo.

of ice cream and coffee.

first ice cream back in new york:
vanilla malt ice cream
peanut butter fudge ice cream
cake batter softserve
sprinkles.
thanks,blythe.
best first thing to eat(besides the coffee)when getting to new york.



from lula's sweet apothecary,of course.

hi.i moved to nyc for school a few weeks ago,and have been really busy and still will be,but i thought i'd share some sweet stuff that's been going on.yay!


pb&j ice cream
banana walnut ice cream

2nd time at lula's-in a big cup.probably my new all time favourite-the pb&j that is.
sweet n salty with just enough jam,zedohmygawd.


and third time's a charm;
banana split,pb&j ice cream,ginger molases ice cream,peanut butter fudge ice cream,cookies n cream ice cream
whizzers(vegan m&ms),1 crushed ginger newman o,whipped cream,maraschino cherry,banana


brad.




cherry.

i also went to stogo


i had peanut butter fudge and salted caramel pecan.
i was really excited b/c they had soem pretty excitied flavours,but the peanut butter fudge was really watery and icy and i didn't want to finish it-shoulda sampled it first,that's what happened with the oatmeal raisin cookie flavour,which i really wanted.don't see how you could eff up a peanut butter ice cream,but whatever,at least the salted caramel one was good.



i've also been drinking a lot of coffee here;probably start a blog just for that soon.so here's a preview;
gimme!coffee in soho:

first espresso off the plane.dark,super chocolate-y,smoky,awesome.


first gibraltar ever.and not the last.

el beit in williamsburg:

serving 49th parallel-i had better the morning pervious in vancouver.

think coffee on bowery:

medicore.whatever.

9th street espresso in chelsea market:


on 10th street:


on 9th street:


variety in williamsburg:

stumptown in nyc.meh.

kaffe 1668:


third rail coffee:



chemex.zomg.

blue spoon cafe:

craziest,thickest,macchiato ever.and it was good.

gorilla coffee:

kinda really burnt.

cafe grumpy park slope:


greenpoint:


chelsea:


oslo coffee on metropolitan:


everyman espresso:

awesome.

cafe pedlar:


ground support:


ost:




abraco:

ho-ly-oh-my-ga-wd.aaaah.