Rather than keep whining about being a fatty (I’ve gained back roughly half of the 50 pounds I lost a few years ago, boo), I’ve decided to join up with a bunch of PPKers and start the 6 week induction to the Eat To Live diet. Now, time restrictions with working full time and going to school at night, doing the whole “let’s make massive salads all day” thing is going to be difficult, so for the first couple of days, I’ve been more or less winging it, trying to follow the general guidelines, and where I’m not, keeping the calorie and fat intake low. As you can tell from the blog, everything I eat is sweet, whether or not it’s desserty – I have a major sugar addiction. I need something like Eat To Live to completely get me off of the refined sugar and get me into some decent food. So, naturally, here’s a dessert post.

That’s sum delicious copypasta; leftovers again?

On the left is a Sexy Low-Fat Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Mousse, on the right is a Margarita Cupcake. This is here mostly because a) I just decorated them this morning (on the second day of my diet, I was asked to make cupcakes for a coworker’s birthday. Not fair.)  and b) the Margarita Cupcakes look a fuckton better than the last time I made them for the same co-worker’s birthday last year. I toyed with doing something really espresso-y like Tiramisu so that there wouldn’t be a chance in hell of me wanting to even taste them, but I barely had the energy to make these last night. Not to mention that I don’t keep any sort of coffee in my house, and didn’t want to run out and buy any.  Side note: I haven’t eaten any of the cupcakes yet, and I don’t think I’ll succumb to their siren song (I usually have a test cupcake right out of the oven of both batches, and then at least one at work the next day. Ugh.)… but I did let myself have a few leftover swirls of the mousse. But, it’s silken tofu based, so other than the bag of melted chocolate chips in it, it’s not that bad of a slip up.

Last week I had my final wisdom tooth pulled, resulting in a weekend spend alone and not going to this month’s PPK potluck – again. So, I made Green Tea freezer pops from My Sweet Vegan and pretty much just ate those and watched a marathon of The Girls Next Door. Odd choice, I know.

My mold makes 10 of these, which turned out to be 2.5 batches of the recipe. In the future, unless entertaining, just stick with one batch.

The recipe is pretty much a cooked pudding, which solves my non-chocolate pudding quandry – use powdered sugar. Yay pudding pops! Fuck you, Bill Cosby!

The upcoming food porn probably isn’t going to be gourmet, blow-your-ass-off impressive, but it will be healthy and I won’t care because I’ll be wasting away to nothing. Yes, Virginia, there are Fatty Von Fattenstein vegans.