40 Days-40 Lenten Recipes 2014 Edition: Spiced Chai Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

So what do you do when you promised to bring something for the Potluck following Presanctified Services and you get home late? Well, I decided on more baking...

I loved the Earl Grey Cupcakes with Butter cream Frosting made for the Valentine's Brunch. Have yet to post about how that turned out...(great by the way.)  So I thought, let me make these similar, except without the eggs and milk and butter for the frosting. So what did I use?

40 Days-40 Lenten Recipes 2014 Edition-Almond Apple Tart

Already needing something sweet? Fresh fruit not cutting it?
To be honest, I'm a baker at heart. What can I say?
I had to find a way to make a crust, and I did...

40 Days-40 Lenten Recipes 2014 Edition: Hot and Sour Soup

Ingredients

8-10 Bella mushrooms, sliced

1-8 oz bamboo shoots, drained and sliced

2-4 cloves garlic, minced

8 ox extra-firm tofu, cubed

4 tsp ground ginger

4 cups water

1/2 cube of vegetable bouillon

3 Tb soy sauce

1-2 Tb chili pepper flakes

2 Tb rice wine vinegar

Mix water, bouillon and garlic together and bring to a boil. Add remainder except tofu, stir and allow to simmer for 15-20 minutes. Just before serving add tofu.

Note: There's no tofu in the above picture, it was good even without it. Sorry for all the steam rising from the hot soup, I had to take a picture fast...it was gone in a blink. 

Here's a link to 40 Days-40 Lenten Recipes 2013

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