January 9, 2011: Kokosnoot Lime Cupcakes

the delightful baking day nosotros had terminal fourth dimension Katy travelled S to see me.)

I was in addition to then excited to have it inwards the postal service that I seriously considered making something that real night, which was a terrible see (I had other foods in addition to chores to attend to).  But I made a indicate of trying it out the real side past times side weekend, choosing the kokosnoot lime cupcakes both because they looked wonderful in addition to because I had limes in addition to shredded kokosnoot to role up.  I did a fair flake of adapting to suit our situation:

• halving the cake recipe to avoid mega-gluttony
• reducing the icing quantity to a tertiary - I only don't dig the towers of fluff used on the modern cupcake
• the limes were looking pretty sad, in addition to then no zest in addition to no pretty lime spell garnishes
• no kokosnoot extract
• all margarine, no shortening inwards the icing (BTW - tin whatever Aussies recommend a vegan shortening? I've never used it)

This yielded 5 large-ish cupcakes that suited my preferences well.  While the cake batter started out  an unappetising grey, it baked upward amongst a pleasing golden crust in addition to dense crumb; the icing wasn't excessive in addition to had enough of tartness.

I'm non the kinda gal to become gaga over the miniature, the cutesy or the fussy, but this rootage foray into Vegan Cupcakes hints that I'll convey no problem enjoying such things on my ain terms.

Coconut lime cupcakes
(adapted from a recipe inwards Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World)

cake
two tablespoons kokosnoot oil
3/8 loving cup raw sugar
2/3 loving cup kokosnoot milk
ane 1/2 tablespoons soy milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 loving cup manifestly flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
generous pinch of salt
1/2 loving cup shredded coconut

icing
1/3 loving cup margarine
ane loving cup icing sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
ane 1/2 tablespoons lime juice

kokosnoot flakes, to garnish

Preheat an oven to 180°C in addition to add together roughly cupcake liners to a muffin pan (I used 5).

Melt the kokosnoot stone oil inwards a minor saucepan over depression heat.  When it's completely liquid, transfer it to a mixing bowl.  Stir inwards the sugar, followed past times the kokosnoot milk, soy milk in addition to vanilla.  Sift inwards the flour, baking soda, baking pulverisation in addition to salt, mixing everything until smooth.  Fold through the shredded coconut.

Spoon the cake batter into the cupcake liners in addition to bake the cupcakes until golden on summit in addition to cooked through (you know the skewer test, right?), virtually twenty minutes.  Allow the cupcakes to cool completely earlier icing them.

To laid upward the icing, vanquish together the margarine in addition to icing carbohydrate until low-cal in addition to fluffy.  Add the vanilla in addition to lime juice in addition to vanquish a whole lot to a greater extent than - at to the lowest degree 5 minutes.  Spread the icing onto the cooled cupcakes in addition to garnish them amongst the flaked coconut.

Mocha Cupcakes

October 6, 2011

Purple Peanuts, I'd kinda been hoping to catch Cupcake Central for dessert. Alas, they were shut past times the fourth dimension nosotros were gear upwardly to terminal by. Even afterward arriving dwelling identify I couldn't acquire cupcakes out of my caput together with thence flicked through my re-create of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. Turns out I had the pantry supplies to brand plenty of these recipes! I decided to attempt out something similar to the suggested mocha variation on their basic chocolate cake recipe - Michael's a java lover, together with fifty-fifty had the mutual depression temperature dregs of his habit sitting inwards the java plunger for me to use.

Halving the batter quantity together with quartering the buttercream, I turned out five cupcakes together with a petty also much icing. There simply wasn't equally much java season going on equally I'd hoped thence afterward the cakes were cooked, I poked holes inwards them amongst a skewer together with poured inwards a few extra teaspoons of cool espresso. Michael's java grounds were quite fine thence I sprinkled approximately over the elevation equally a garnish too. There yet wasn't quite the bitter border I was afterward but I've learned something for adjacent fourth dimension - I won't live on shy virtually dumping a span tablespoons of the set down materials straight into the batter, equally they're unlikely to live on gritty.

Something I've been slower to larn is that these icings are simply also sugary for me. Reducing the whole quantity is non enough; I've got to cutting downward the proportion of carbohydrate inside the recipe. The cakes, though, are terrific - thence fluffy together with moist. And I felt pretty clever whipping these upwardly on a weeknight whim.

Mocha cupcakes
(adapted slightly from recipes inwards Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, past times Isa Chandra Moskowitz together with Terry Hope Romero)

cake
1/4 loving cup soy milk
1/2 teaspoon apple tree cider vinegar
1/4 loving cup mutual depression temperature espresso
3/8 loving cup castor sugar
1/6 loving cup sunflower oil
one teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 loving cup apparently flour
1/6 loving cup cocoa
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt

1-2 tablespoons mutual depression temperature espresso, extra

icing
1/4 loving cup margarine
one teaspoon vanilla essence
1-2 tablespoons mutual depression temperature espresso
one loving cup icing sugar

choc chips together with set down java to garnish

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a cupcake tray amongst 5-6 newspaper liners.

In a small-scale bowl mix together the soy milk together with apple tree cider vinegar, allowing them a span of minutes to sit down together with curdle. Stir inwards the mutual depression temperature coffee, sugar, stone oil together with vanilla nether good mixed.

In a divide small-scale bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda together with powder, together with salt. Gradually shell them into the liquid mixture, getting rid of equally many lumps equally yous can. Pour the batter into the cupcake liners, filling them three-quarters full. 

Bake the cupcakes until they overstep the skewer test, virtually 18-20 minutes. When they're ready, proceed poking multiple holes inwards the elevation of each cupcake together with spoon over a span tablespoons of mutual depression temperature espresso. Allow the cakes to cool completely.

In a small-scale bowl, shell together the margarine, vanilla together with one tablespoon of the mutual depression temperature coffee. Gradually shell inwards the icing sugar, adding to a greater extent than java if it becomes also thick. Spread the icing thickly on the cupcakes, thence sprinkle them amongst chocolate chips together with set down coffee.

Rum'n'raisin Cocoa Cake

June 7, 2015

Michael's birthday was barely one-half elapsed earlier he got on his bird to Munich, together with therefore nosotros agreed that I'd lead maintain a celebratory cake cook for him when he returned home. Michael had picked out the rum'n'raisin recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World together with I offered to catch it upwards alongside a fleck of cocoa.

Instead of forming a dozen cupcakes, I poured the batter into a unmarried circular cake tin together with baked it a footling longer. It makes for a damp cake alongside a fluffy crumb together with deep season - it has the nighttime caramel sweetness together with solely a footling of the abrupt booziness of nighttime rum. While I'm non particularly fond of dried fruits inwards cake, the rum-soaked raisins dotted through this 1 are happy bursts of tripled sweetness.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 soaked-in glaze together with slathering of buttercream layer but don't belabour the rum flavouring; I likewise added a weep upwards of nighttime chocolate chips to the acme to extend the cocoa theme.

We ate this cake alongside cups of vanilla-scented dark tea, together with everyone went dorsum for seconds.

Rum'n'raisin cocoa cake
(adapted from a recipe inwards Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World,
past times Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero)

cake
2/3 loving cup raisins, about chopped
3 tablespoons nighttime rum
spray stone oil
1/4 loving cup soy milk
1 teaspoon apple tree cider vinegar
1/3 loving cup canola oil
3/4 loving cup castor sugar
1 tablespoon barley malt syrup or molasses
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 loving cup evidently flour
1/4 loving cup cocoa powder
2 tablespoons cornflour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon soil mace or soil nutmeg

glaze
1 1/2 tablespoons nighttime rum
1 1/2 tablespoons castor sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon margarine

buttercream
1/4 loving cup margarine
1 tablespoon nighttime rum
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon barley malt syrup or molasses
1 tablespoon soy milk
1 loving cup icing sugar

nighttime chocolate chips, to decorate

Place the raisins inwards a pocket-size bowl together with pour over 2 tablespoons of the rum. Allow them to soak upwards the alcohol for at to the lowest degree xxx minutes together with preferably an threescore minutes or two.

Preheat an oven to 180°C. Line a springform cake tin alongside baking newspaper together with lightly spray it alongside oil.

In a medium bowl, stir together the soy milk together with apple tree cider vinegar. Allow them to curdle for a yoke of minutes. Whisk inwards the oil, sugar, syrup, remaining tablespoon of rum together with vanilla until everything is good combined.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda, tabular array salt together with mace. Pour inwards the whisked liquid ingredients together with stir thoroughly until good combined together with smooth. Fold inwards the rum-soaked raisins. Pour the cake batter into the cake tin together with bake until the cake passes the skewer test, nearly 35 minutes.

While the cake is even together with therefore warm, gear upwards the rum glaze. Stir the rum together with carbohydrate together inwards a pocket-size saucepan together with laid them over low-medium heat, until the carbohydrate is dissolved together with they've been bubbling nearly a minute. Take the saucepan off the estrus together with add together the margarine, stirring until it is melted. Whisk inwards the vanilla. Use a skewer to poke holes inwards the acme of the cake together with spoon over the glaze. Allow the cake to cool completely.

To brand the buttercream, identify the margarine, rum, vanilla, syrup together with soy milk inwards a medium bowl. Beat them until they're good mixed (I struggled). Sift inwards one-half the icing carbohydrate together with musical rhythm out it thoroughly into the margarine mixture. Repeat alongside the remaining icing sugar, together with run on beating for several minutes, until the buttercream is calorie-free together with fluffy. Spread the buttercream over the cooled cake together with decorate the acme alongside chocolate chips.

Cherry Ripe Cupcakes

November 28, 2011

We spent much of concluding Sat hanging out alongside friends, inwards our abode in addition to inwards others'. To ensure nosotros had something to nibble at alongside those cups of tea in addition to spectacles of wine, I was inspired to bake for the outset fourth dimension inwards a while. These cupcakes sprang almost only from pantry supplies - merely the almond milk was bought especially - in addition to from a brace of the basic recipes inwards Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World. 

With 2 kinds of cherries cluttering the closet I went for a Cherry Ripe kinda vibe, folding dried cherries into the chocolate cake batter, supplementing the flour alongside shredded kokosnoot in addition to popping a glace cherry on top of each ganache-spread cupcake. The ganache is thus tardily to brand (no double boiler for the chocolate!) in addition to thus tardily to spread thickly in addition to smoothly. (I've used in addition to raved well-nigh it in i lawsuit before; it actually is something.) I besides made a straight-forward switcheroo betwixt wheat in addition to gluten-free flour.

These were really squeamish indeed! I erred merely on the side of under-baking them to operate along them moist, in addition to for a gluten-free recipe they had enough of springy-ness. I only want I'd had dessicated rather than shredded kokosnoot on hand. The kokosnoot was strangely crunchy, in addition to I've flora that a finer grind tends to meld into the batter better.

Cherry ripe cupcakes
(adapted from the basic chocolate cupcake in addition to chocolate ganache
inwards Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World
past times Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero)

cake
1 loving cup almond milk
1 teaspoon apple tree cider vinegar
3/4 loving cup brownish sugar
1/3 loving cup sunflower oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 loving cup gluten gratis manifestly flour
1/3 loving cup cocoa
3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup shredded coconut
1/2 loving cup dried cherries

chocolate ganache
four tablespoons almond milk
75g nighttime chocolate
three tablespoons maple syrup

12 glace cherries, to garnish

Preheat oven to 180 C. Line muffin pan alongside cupcake papers.

In a large bowl, whisk together the milk in addition to vinegar, thus give them a few minutes to curdle. Add the sugar, fossil oil in addition to vanilla, beating until frothy.

In a sort bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, soda, baking pulverisation in addition to salt; stir through the coconut. Gradually add together these dry out ingredients to the milk mixture, beating equally you lot go. Fold inwards the dried cherries.

Spoon the mixture into the cupcake liners in addition to bake for 15-20 minutes, until they exceed the skewer test. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely.

To brand the ganache, choose the milk to the boil inwards a small-medium saucepan in addition to thus conduct maintain it off the heat. Stir inwards the chocolate in addition to maple syrup immediately, until the chocolate is completely melted in addition to the mixture is smooth.

Spoon the ganache onto each cupcake, using the dorsum of a spoon to spread it out. Pop a glace cherry onto the middle of each cupcake to garnish.

Linzer Cupcakes

November 26, 2011

lots of cupcakes! This 2nd recipe is a slightly to a greater extent than faithful rendition of a Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World recipe: the Linzer cupcake is a recommended adaptation on the hazelnut cupcakes.

They're a fiddling combat fancy without requiring cut-outs or piping or fifty-fifty buttercream. Well, technically the raspberry jam is supposed to hold out piped into the centre of the hazelnut cake, but I establish that slathering a combat on altitude was much easier, in addition to the nighttime chocolate ganache glided across the altitude of the jam but fine. H5N1 few extra chopped hazelnuts sprinkled over them add together a combat of squeeze in addition to shroud whatever bumps.

These were a lovely interruption from the chocolatechocolateCHOCOLATE rut I tin move teach into amongst desserts. Admittedly the cupcakes create involve ganache, but it's the moist hazelnut cake in addition to sweetness raspberry jam that are the existent charmers here.


Linzer cupcakes
(adapted slightly from a recipe in
Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World
yesteryear Isa Chandra Moskovitz & Terry Hope Romero)

cake
2/3 loving cup almond milk
ane tablespoon solid soil flaxseeds
ane loving cup plainly flour
1/2 loving cup solid soil hazelnuts
ane teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon solid soil cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon solid soil nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 loving cup sunflower oil
1/4 loving cup maple syrup
1/2 loving cup dark-brown sugar
ane teaspoon vanilla essence
ane tablespoon Frangelico

toppings
1/2 loving cup raspberry jam
iv tablespoons almond milk
75g nighttime chocolate
three tablespoons maple syrup
1/2 loving cup some chopped hazelnuts

Preheat an oven to 180 C in addition to trouble a muffin pan amongst cupcake papers.

In a small-medium bowl, whisk together the milk in addition to flaxseeds. In a medium-large bowl, stir together the flour, solid soil hazelnuts, baking pulverization in addition to soda, cinnamon, nutmeg in addition to salt.

Return to the smaller bowl in addition to whisk inwards the oil, maple syrup, sugar, vanilla in addition to Frangelico. Gradually pour these moisture ingredients into the bowl of flour, stirring equally you lot become in addition to continuing until to a greater extent than oftentimes than non smooth.

Pour the batter into the cupcake papers, near two-thirds full, in addition to bake for near xx minutes, until they overstep the skewer test.

You tin move altitude them amongst jam field they're all the same warm! Use a teaspoon in addition to brand certain the jam is a combat stirred upward in addition to loose, non ready similar jelly. Spread near 2 teaspoons of jam on altitude of each cupcake, smoothing it equally best you lot tin move amongst the dorsum of a spoon.

Set the cupcakes aside to cool equally you lot brand the ganache. Bring the milk to the boil inwards a small-medium saucepan in addition to and then cause got it off the heat. Stir inwards the chocolate in addition to maple syrup immediately, until the chocolate is completely melted in addition to the mixture is smooth.

Spoon the ganache onto each cupcake, using the dorsum of a spoon to spread it out. Sprinkle hazelnuts over the cupcakes field the ganache is all the same warm.