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    The Best Vegan Cupcake Recipe & DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand

    The Best Vegan Cupcake Recipe & DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand

    My babies are 5 and 2!

     

    Three late nights and one full day (with helper as pictured below!), but the cupcake stand turned out alright 🙌😅🌈 

     

    We recently celebrated Lake turning 5 and Banks turning 2 with a rainbow themed party, I googled every possible avenue and search word humanly available, but no one (NO! ONE!) sold cupcake structures shaped as a rainbow. 

     

    Business opportunity, people! 😜

     

    Tanya Maher's Vegan Gluten Free Dairy Free Rainbow Cupcake Recipe

     

    I was highly conscious of the fact that parties weren’t an option for many of you for some time so I held off posting the cupcake recipe, but the requests kept coming...

     

    Sooooo, here you are.

     

    Tanya Maher's Vegan Gluten Free Dairy Free Rainbow Cupcake Recipe 

     

    Vegan Cupcakes

    (yields 12)

     

    For the dry ingredients

    1.5 Cups (180g) GF Plain Flour

    3/4 Cup Raw or Demerara Sugar

    1.5 teaspoon Baking Powder

    1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

    1/2 teaspoon Himalayan Salt

     

    For the wet ingredients

    1 Cup (240g) Full Fat Coconut Milk from can*

    1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract

    1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

     

    *Ensure the can has been kept at room temperature and shaken really well. If you open the can and coconut milk is still separated into clear and creamy parts, then transfer the lot into a blender and blend to combine.

     

    METHOD

    -Preheat the oven to 180C.

    -Whisk all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl, making sure to smooth out any lumps. In a separate bowl, whisk all of the wet ingredients.

    -Slowly pour the wet ingredients over the dry while whisking gently or stirring briskly. When the mixture is smooth, scoop it evenly among 12 muffin cases. Better to fill with less and slowly add spoonfuls at a time, than to overfill some cases and not others. You will notice that each case looks only about half full, but don’t be tempted to overfill it, because the cupcakes will rise A LOT! In fact, this mixture was enough for me to fill 14 muffin cases, since I was restricted by height and really couldn’t have  it rise above the muffin case or it wasn’t going to fit into my rainbow sculpture.

    -Bake for 13-14 minutes. I ended up having to bake 7 x 12 muffin trays for the rainbow to be complete and set the timer for 13 minutes each time which was perfect for my oven. Just make sure they are golden on top.

     

    Tanya Maher's Vegan Gluten Free Dairy Free Rainbow Cupcake Recipe

     

    Vegan Icing

     

    1/2 Cup Icing Sugar

    2 tablespoons Cashew Cream*

    1 teaspoon Lemon Juice

    2-4 drops natural Food Colour

    Optional: Hot Water**

     

    *To make cashew cream, I soak 1 cup of cashews in hot water for 1 hour or in cold water overnight, rinse them and blend with 3/4 cup of filtered water until creamy.

    **Only add if your icing is too thick after mixing really well and only add 1 teaspoon of hot water at a time.

     

    -I made 5 different colours for my rainbow, so I used this recipe 5 times within separate bowls, the only variant was the food colour. I mixed everything using a spoon and got a beautiful thick glaze. 

    -Once the cupcakes were completely cooled, I then poured a small spoonful at a time over each cupcake. Use the back of your spoon to glide the glaze over the top of the cupcake to cover it completely. Leave to set for 2-3 hours.

     

     

    I also thought I’d post the step by step pictures of the sculpture incase it inspires you to make something similar with your kids. Lake had the time of her life helping me paint it and if she was a bit older, I would’ve had her manning the PVA and the glue gun too. 

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Rainbow themed kids party 

     

    Tanya Maher's DIY Rainbow Cupcake Stand + Vegan Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

     

    Tanya Maher's Vegan Gluten Free Dairy Free Rainbow Cupcake Recipe 

     

    The Kind Fast Challenge

    The Kind Fast Challenge

     

    Our final 21 Day Intermittent Fasting Challenge for 2020 has completed and it was EPIC!

     

    I'm looking to run it all over again in the New Year, so if you're interested in joining a whole tribe of Intermittent Fasters on a fun challenge to burn fat, shrink the waistline, feel confident and radiant, improve sleep, strengthen the immune system and look seriously insanely good… all while eating your favourite foods...

     

    ...add your name to the list below and you'll be the first to get all the details of the upcoming course:

     

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    #1 REASON YOU'RE NOT LOSING WEIGHT

    #1 REASON YOU'RE NOT LOSING WEIGHT

    I was just starting to think that perhaps my post-baby-post-(first)-lockdown-post-stress weight was here to stay and then I discovered all the things I was doing wrong.


    And once I discovered them, the weight began to literally melt away.


    No calorie restrictions
    No magic pills or expensive shakes
    No starving
    No eliminating any foods or food groups
    And, dare I say it, no exercise 


    I've been so excited to witness my waistline shrinking before my own eyes, that I now really want to share all the secrets with you, Tan!!


    Whether you have a teeny tiny podgy belly fat or masses of weight you'd rather leave behind in 2020, I hope you'll join me on a FREE LIVE webinar I'll be hosting this coming......


     

    Please note, the webinar has ended, but you can get the full transcript here:

    tanyasliving.com/pages/thekindfast




    Here's what you'll discover:

    • #1 Reason you're not losing weight (hint: it's not the type of food or lack of exercise!)
    • What is Intermittent Fasting and different types
    • Top mistake people make during a fast


    I hope you're excited, because I seriously can't wait to share some powerful stuff!


    Please note, the webinar has ended, but you can get the full transcript here:

    tanyasliving.com/pages/thekindfast

     

    xTanya

    MY BIRTHDAY SALE!

    MY BIRTHDAY SALE!

    Amazing friends,


    Thank you so much for all your kind and heartfelt messages to my latest post 'Saying Goodbye to my Deli'. 

    Reading your love notes and shared memories of the Tanya's Cafe days was truly the best closing gift a girl could dream of.

    I'm putting together a video of those six incredible years, so if you have pictures you're willing to share for this video, feel free to post to IG tagging #tanyas.

    But first...

    We celebrate!

    Today is my birthday, and for anyone that knows me, knows I just love looooove love each and every birthday, especially since it coincides with back to school sale time :))

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    SAYING GOODBYE TO MY DELI

    SAYING GOODBYE TO MY DELI

    Just two days before all of UK went into lockdown, I had a note from our accountant urging to stop all food and drink orders to clear stock ASAP, because the first two weeks of March in 2020 vs 2019 saw a revenue drop by 60%.

    Everyone was already staying away from public spaces and The Living Room at My Chelsea Hotel was deserted.

    Then, forced to close our doors, three months into lockdown was three months too many for some painful financials to deal with.

    To avoid further losses, we had no choice but to hand the hotel and the deli over to another company and say our goodbyes.

    It all feels so surreal and so raw still (no pun intended).

    I just can’t come to terms with the idea of going back to our beloved London without my beautiful deli to visit, without My Chelsea to stay at, without all the staff who became family.

    Discovering just how many businesses the virus has taken and will continue to take is simply heartbreaking.

    We may be a number in the statistics of the world, but for many of us our business used to be the world.

    Time to create a new world now.

    I know that I already posted these words on social media, but I wanted to write to you here and to thank everyone for supporting our restaurant turned deli over the years.

    Honestly, it is our customers, I am missing the most. I just love you guys so so unbelievably much!


    I’m not going far myself (well I suppose NZ is as far as it gets, LOL, but I mean I'm still online connecting with you all) and will continue to post whatever inspires and serves you.

    Speaking of which, what sort of blog posts would you like to see more of...


    Family updates? Recipes (raw or cooked vegan)? Inspirational quotes? Kitchen hacks? Food prep tips? Videos? Cleanse ideas? Nutritional facts? Wellness coaching? Glimpses into my every day life?

    I’d love to know what’s interesting (or not interesting) to you!

    It would be so so so amazing if you could please add your thoughts in the comments section below...

    Thank you.

    I love you.

    Stay well, 


    💚 P.S.  I’ve started coaching on Skype again and it’s keeping my broken heart in one piece.