Vegan Cupcakes went moldy

[wytchywoman]

within less than 48 hours?!?!?!? What could have caused this to happen so quickly? I even stored them in the fridge, so this makes no sense. Anyone experienced this before?

[dachshundqueen]

That is strange. Were they scratch or box mix? I've had two "boxes" of vegetarian pudding go green on me the morning after they were made - but none of my other food.

At my parents house in sunny San Diego, you leave anything out with water/food in it (ie oatmeal) and it has green scum on top in the morning.

Liz

[wytchywoman]

They were scratch. They were the sexy low fat vanilla cupcakes from vegan cupcakes take over the world. I topped them with raspberry jam and homemade buttercream frosting. The flour was new, the jam was new and the powdered sugar was new, so I don't really think it was the ingredients. I placed them in the fridge after they were frosted, so the only thing I can think of might be that the container might have had a few invisible spores left over from something else and it quickly spread.

[dachshundqueen]

What a shame, those sounded delicious, pre-mold of course.

Liz

[wytchywoman]

Originally Posted by dachshundqueen

What a shame, those sounded delicious, pre-mold of course.

Liz

They were awesome, and sort of a pain in the butt to make so when they went bad so quickly I was really

[eepster]

Sometimes it's the environment. In our old apartment in the Bronx, everything went moldy very quickly. It helped quite a bit when we got a new refrigerator. I think our old fridge had just been terminally colonized by mold spores. We still had the issue a bit though, I suspect it was from the supermarket dumpster our kitchen window overlooked.