Be careful with PETA's "accidentally vegan" list because not all of those products are still vegan. 

Oh, I am...I don't take their word for anything!  That's why I contacted Pinnacle (Duncan Hines).  I've tried contacting PETA about "vegan" items on their list that aren't.  For instance, Hot Tamales are on the list.  I was watching Food Channel and they were showing how these are made and they are tumbled in beeswax (for the shiny finish and to keep them from sticking to each other).  I told PETA that and they said that since it's such a small thing, they will leave it on the list.  They said that at least it's better than most things that have more animal derived ingredients.  That doesn't fly for me.  It's wrong to misrepresent something as vegan unless it is in the strictest sense of the word (or at least make a disclaimer).  The other one was P.F. Chang's (which is on their vegan-friendly restaurant list).  I used to go there all the time and get their Coconut Curry Vegetables and Ma Po Tofu.  Once, I decided to ask if they could make General Tso's Chicken with tofu instead.  They said yes, but I began wondering if the sauce was vegan.  When I got there, I asked and the server said "none of our sauces are vegan...they all have an ingredient derived from bone marrow".  I was appalled!  I was ordering from the vegetarian menu and when I first went in, I asked if the sauces were vegan and were told that they were.  I went back later to complain and the manager tried to assure me that the sauces were vegan.  After some prodding, she said she'd check.  She emailed me later to confirm that they aren't.  I forwarded the email to PETA and nothing happened.  P.F. Chang's is still listed as vegan-friendly.

p.s.  The kicker:  a vegan joined our staff at work a few months ago and we talked about P.F. Chang's.  He went there and spoke to a manager who...you guessed it...assured him that the sauces are vegan!  He eats there, despite what I told him because he believes the manager...I think it's an outrage.  That's why I seldom eat out.

Cheerios, wheaties, and any general mills products that have Vitamin D in them are ANIMAL-DERIVED.

I just got an education on Vitamin D when I was recently diagnosed with a Vitamin D and calcium deficiency.  I went to Wild Oats and found a Calcium Citrate with D supplement that was labeled "vegetarian tablets".  The label also said "no dairy or egg" and even went as far as to say that the magnesium stearate was from a "vegetable source".  After buying this, I became curious about the difference between D2 and D3.  I found out that D2 is plant-derived and D3 is animal-derived.  I then went back to my calcium supplement and found that it was D3, so I emailed Wild Oats and was told that the D3 is derived from lanolin (sheep's wool).  So, even though this was labeled "vegetarian" and the labeling seemed to suggest that everything was plant-derived, it wasn't.  Boy, sometimes it takes a "super-sleuth" to find out if something is truly vegan!

this is funny, cause my campers eat those and i say "you know there is beef in that?" and they are like no way and i show them and .... they pass it on to someone else. interesting about the hot tamalies, the mike and ikes are vegan last i checked, didn't use bees wax to coat them. i wonder if they either had old footage or recently changed. i hope they are vegan...i like those stupid things

I've just emailed Just Born (makers of Mike & Ikes and Hot Tamales).  I'll let you know what they say...

Until then, I found this on a website:

Mike & Ike: Made by the makers of Peeps, the Just Born Candy Co. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, these have been produced since the '50s. Tastless candy centers are swirled with flavor and color before being polished and lined with beeswax. While there's a standard flavor set -- lemon, lime, cherry, orange -- some experiments have been done: Lemon watermelon, rootbeer, and licorice were tried and discontinued. Perhaps named after the performers in a Vaudeville act, 200,000 pounds of Mike & Ikes -- Mikes & Ikes? -- are made daily.

Sorry...

I've always been wary of the PETA list... and I think the letter-writing is a great idea.  However, I'm really wondering if you found the recipe that you were looking for in the first place.  Apple crumb cake sounds yummy... recipe?

I ended up using this recipe:

Ingredients:
2 cans (21 oz) apple pie filling
1 package Duncan Hines yellow cake mix
3/4 cup soy butter, softened - only a little though (if too soft you'll end up with a mushy dough)
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup soymilk

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375F. In large saucepan, heat pie filling over medium heat until very hot. Stir occasionally.  In large bowl, combine cake mix and soy butter. Blend at low speed on mixer (45-60 seconds) until crumbly.

Place 1 1/2 cup of this mixture in a medium bowl. Stir the walnuts and cinnamon into 1 1/2 cup mixture and mix well. Set aside.  Spread remaining cake mix and soy butter mixture into lightly greased 9x13 pan.  Spoon hot pie filling evenly over that.

Dribble soymilk evenly over the cake and soy butter mixture trying to moisten all of it.  Sprinkle walnut mixture over top of the cake mixture.  Bake at 375F 30-40 minutes or until topping is golden brown and cracks appear dry.  Cool 30 minutes.

I wanted it to be more "crumb cake" like, so I took the topping package out of a box of Aunt Jemima Coffee Cake I bought (as backup!).  I sprinkled that over the top before baking.

End product wasn't exactly crumb cake, but it was really good!  My co-workers couldn't believe it was vegan.  I think I'll play around with it next time to see what I can come up with (maybe I won't use so much apple pie filling...).