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Vegan Atari Birthday Cake – Vintage is Best

Cake in the shape of Atari Game Console

Loren’s birthday was a great time for me to experiment and whip up a vegan birthday cake shaped like an Atari game console, complete with joysticks. Atari was my beloved companion when I was little. I still have my original console, and it is fully operational. We love to play it, and I’m still collecting games for it.

atari game console shaped vegan cake

For Loren’s cake I made our vegan chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. The joysticks and game console are all cake, and covered with fondant. The vertical joystick controller is chocolate fondant. All trim on the controller was cut from fondant by hand.

vegan atari cake

The little details on the cake make a difference. Due to the scale, I did not replicate all of the print on top of the game system. I did, however, hand paint a little Atari logo homage. The wood grain was a mix of brown and white fondants.

Packed up and ready to share with co-workers!

vegan atari shaped fan cake

This shaped cake was a blast to make, and Loren loved it.

 

Atari shaped cake for Loren

 

He’s a bit more thrilled than when he turned 3. He must have been afraid of the cake sliding off of his legs. Little Loren is counting the minutes until he can dig in.

Child Birthday

 

Cake in the shape of Atari Game Console

The gamer boy in his Pac-Man ghost tee.

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Happy Birthday, Loren! 🙂 You can have your vegan cake and play with it, too!

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Vegan Whipped Cream Off the Shelf

We often make our own whipped cream, but we’ve just stumbled across a wonderful, shelf-stable vegan whipping cream that tastes simply amazing. It looks pretty darn good, too.

What is the magical stuff? Healthy Top Whipping Cream from MimicCreme. The coconut oil base is not heavy, and there is a slightly nutty taste from the almond and cashew ingredients. The sweetness is subtle and is full of that fluffy creamy goodness you may have been missing. Check out the recipes they have in the MimicCreme Community.

Purchased at: Food Lion, Charlotte, North Carolina

If you can’t find it locally, thanks to the aseptic processing, it can be shipped without refrigeration.

 

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Vegan Easter Bunnies and Eggs

Stuff your baskets with these vegan sweets and you’ll have a compassionate Easter to chirp about.

Decorated Vegan Easter Eggs

 

Some bunny luvs you…

Some Bunny Luvs You Vegan Sugar Cookie

Packaged Vegan Sugar Cookie Bunny

 

Packaged Vegan Easter Egg Decorated Cookies