As I wandered down the busy streets of Greensboro on First Friday- I found my eyes drifting down the way to Cheesecakes by Alex wishing I was able to indulge my hormonal cravings with the dairy goodness wafting out the doors of that little store. Julia kept playing the temptress and my vegan conscience was truly being tested. We stopped in Just Be and looked around a bit, but my dessert craving mouth was watering at the stupidest of things like oreos or store-bought-brownie-bites. I had to get out of there...we stopped at the train tracks where a little convertible almost got squashed by the passing train. It was actually quite scary. The lights started flashing and the gate actually came down on the car and she couldn't move it backward- she was freaked, debated getting out, but her car was about 4 feet away from the train and she was fine.
After several antique stores, and the LOVELY garden behind Jules Antiques that had me believing I was in Italy somewhere drinking vino while painting some gorgeous city-scape, We landed our feet in Civic Threads. My long time friend William works there and we started catching up... as we talked my nose picked up a scent- peanut butter? No...chocolate?...BOTH? Talking continues, I catch a glimpse of cupcakes...oh no. Then William announces, "Oh hey, did you try to Vegan cupcakes? You totally should check em out, they are awesome!" I was already gone, b-line to the table- do you know how hard it is to find a vegan pastry in this town? (probably a good thing it's so hard!!)
Julia says, "Ew Vegan cupcakes? I don't want one of those. That sounds gross." I laugh, "but you just said they look good!" I pick one up and tell her she's splitting it with me! (She liked it, I knew she would!!) I start a conversation with the baker, asking about some of her ingredient choices. She then goes on to say, "Some people come into the shop and say, 'I was going to get one of those cupcakes, they look so good, but then I saw they were vegan.' I think, really? You are so closed minded to not try something that you think looks good just because it says Vegan on it!" I laugh and look straight at Julia.
This beautiful veganite-baker sells her cupcakes at Geeksboro. Check em out!
