VeganMoFo Day 1: It's Food, Just Really, Really Small

Recently my friend Mary hosted a mini food party. The original idea was just to make a few tiny, maybe complicated, things, but soon the guest list tripled, and we all panicked that there wouldn't be enough food. Man were we wrong. There was so much food that even the champion eaters among us met their limits (and by "met their limits" I mean "retreated to the backyard in case they had to puke"). There's something about making food very small that makes you think you can eat at least twice as much of it. But before the coma set in, everything was really delicious. Some of the highlights (desserts first, of course):

Mary's chocolate-chip cheesecakes


Megan's mini apple pies with vanilla ice cream, homemade caramel sauce, and peanuts


Mini root beer floats! With mini straws!


Mary's lemon cheesecakes


Cass's cinnamon rolls


Cass's chocolate-chip cookies. Maybe the best chocolate-chip cookies I've ever had.


Megan's mini trifles. Well, mini might be a bit misleading. The glasses may have been small, but it was still a lot of trifle. I don't know how she makes that vegan whipped cream (it's sort of half custard, half whipped cream) but it's incredible.


Lemon and lime curd tartlets, by me. Awhile ago I threatened to make an entire pie out of just Bryanna's lemon curd and Soyatoo. This was my not-so-pathetic answer to that desire. So sour, so good.


Megan's mini burgers


Mary's sushi, delicious as always

Mini tortilla cups filled with guacamole and garnished with mango and cherry tomato. Mine.


Cherry tomatoes stuffed with mixed olive tapenade, by me. These were a pain in the ass, to say the least. The next time I'm browsing through Martha Stewart's Hor D'oeuvres Handbook and I say, "Ooh, those are cute," I have to think about the crazy amount of work involved. Cutting the centers out of a couple of pints of cherry tomatoes takes forever. They sure were tasty though.


Mary's grilled BLTs with basil mayonnaise


Candice's twice-baked potatoes (really excellent, especially considering Candice had never even eaten a twice-baked potato before)


The leftovers. Yeah, we might've made too much food.