BabyCakes at M Café

Last night, the fiancé and I met up with friends for dinner and visited one of our favorite spots, M Café in Culver City. If you haven't been, M Café serves up contemporary macrobiotic cuisine in a European-style café setting. They have some really yummy and super-healthy dishes on the menu, and because it's macrobiotic, they don't use any refined sugars, eggs, dairy, red meat or poultry. It's not entirely vegan, as they do serve fish, but as long as you stick to the non-fish menu options, you can be sure that what you get is vegan. They offer really beautiful and tasty seasonal deli salads, fun varieties of sushi, and decadent pastries and desserts. To top all this goodness, M Café recently started carrying sweets from the famous BabyCakes NYC, a vegan and (mostly) gluten-free bakery that I've been dying to try. Most exciting!

a winning combination!

After stuffing myself with the ridiculously scrumptious sweet potato fries, my absolute favorite bistro salad, and a lovely Malbec, I couldn't help it... I had to try a cupcake! It was Vegan Cupcake Thursday, after all. It was the end of the day, and the pickings were slim, but I managed to nab one of the last vanilla cupcakes. It had been in a refrigerated case, so it was a little cold, but the verdict remains positive! This gluten-free cutie had great flavor and was perfectly sweet! I loved the frosting the most. Yum! You can view the BabyCakes at M Café menu here. 

the vanilla cupcake

There have been rumors of BabyCakes opening a West Hollywood location, which I think would be a mighty fine choice. Currently, their only L.A. storefront is downtown, which for those of us who tend towards the West, is a bit of a drive. But for now, you can check out gluten-free yumminess at your local M Café: a double-win scenario, because you can chomp down on some delicious vegan food first (try the Big Macro Burger, trust me). What are you waiting for? Go!

Vegan Cupcake Thursday

Ok, so I know it's not Thursday, but I recently found out about a really fun blog all about one of my favorite subjects, vegan cupcakes! Vegan Cupcake Thursday is a blog "all about debunking the myth and proving that VEGAN cupcakes taste good and no animals need to be harmed for your minute of pleasure." Now that's a mission statement I can get behind.

the adorable logo.

Vegan Cupcake Thursday is run by the lovely Roni Seabury, who is a fellow member of the Vegan Etsy Team. I was so pleased to find her blog, which is wonderfully witty (read her clever "about" page here) and features awesome bakers from all over the country, including mouth-watering photos of their wares. So, next time you're ready for some eye-candy (pastry?), check out Vegan Cupcake Thursday!

Guess what I'll be doing next Thursday? Baking cupcakes, you betchya!