Good morning all,
A lot of my favorite food experiences have been from trucks or open markets. Who wouldn’t love accessible quality local food? In most cities , they have city blocks lined with mobile food carts and in most there are always beautiful farmer’s markets featuring the local harvests.
I’ve come across some of best food ever in an outdoor setting: like The Grill Cheese or The Fojol Brothers. They take a great food concept and pair it with responsible action like recycling and philanthropy.
As I look to my own business ventures, I’m wondering if finding a little plot to squat or a truck to drive around would be a good way to start my own sales. I may have to pay for all the regular certification and business start up, but I could lease or buy a truck and not worry about full rent costs. I wonder what the power or fuel costs are like
They were delish! I picked up some banana extract at Great Wall and used a little almond extract to give it a warm nutty base. I did about one teaspoon banana and a half almond. I think I might up the banana next time. The frosting though… holy moly, that’s the best part! I used a whole mashed banana, 1/8 cup of vegan margarine, 2 tsp of banana extract, and about 2 or 3 cups of powdered sugar.
It’s all oozy and delicious so this is definitely a cupcake that requires refrigeration. Boy, was I right! The banana was so fresh and and the chocolate and almond gave it just the right tones and bring it down from a 
At about 11:30, I went about my preparations, seeing I’d have just enough if I didn’t make any mistakes. 
Then, struck by the mood to improvise, I tried subbing out my regular unbleached all-purpose for gluten-free flour with a little almond flour as well as subbing coconut oil for vegetable. I rushed a little and put regular size cupcakes in with the mini pan. You can see where this is going. I was starting to lose my steam especially since I was sad about Ty the puppy. The end result was less delicious, slightly deflated crumbly cupcakes. 
Not something I’d be proud to present as my first sale. So, a little more defeated, I went to bed wishing happy thoughts for Ty and his new owner(s) and brainstorming what I’d need to do in the AM.
End result: gorgeous black and white Choconut, melt in your mouth Dreamsicle, and classic Jelly Donut. Moreover, my office-mates were thrilled they got to eat my “mistakes.”
that’d give me what I needed for a gluten-free Babycakes or VCTOTW recipe, but I was short all sorts of ingredients like 
