Chocolate Vegan Cupcakes Recipes

VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, whisk flour, cocoa and baking soda. In a small bowl, whisk coconut milk, sugar, oil, vinegar and vanilla. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. , Fill paper-lined muffin cups half full. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 15-20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat margarine until light and fluffy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, cocoa, milk and vanilla. Frost cupcakes.

CLASSIC VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and line a cupcake tray with cupcake liners. Set aside.
• Sift the flour and cocoa into a mixing bowl and add the white and brown sugar, baking soda and salt and mix together.
• Add the soy milk, vanilla, oil, applesauce and vinegar and mix in. Use a hand whisk to whisk out any big lumps.
• Divide the batter evenly between the cupcake liners.
• Place into the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean.
• Let cool for a few minutes and then remove the cupcakes from the cupcake tray and transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
• Prepare your frosting by adding the vegan butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla and salt to a mixing bowl. Using an electric mixer, start at slow speed, gradually increasing speed. Add in the soy milk slowly, only as much as needed to get the right consistency.
• When your cupcakes are cooled, pipe on the frosting and sprinkle with grated vegan chocolate shavings.

VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 and prepare a dozen muffin cups - either outfit a muffin pan with paper or foil liners, or use a baking sheet and set out 12 paper liners nested inside foil liners, or else use silicone muffin cups.
• In a large mixing bowl, stir together the soy or rice milk, vinegar, sugar, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. In another bowl, stir together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Sift the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, pausing two or three times to stir, and keep stirring until all the large lumps are gone.
• Pour the batter into the cupcake liners until they are about two-thirds full. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
• When cool, whisk the chocolate glaze ingredients until smooth and spread the glaze on the cupcakes. If you choose, top with sprinkles.

VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with baking cups. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, and sugar. In a separate bowl, whisk together coconut oil, espresso powder, almond milk, and vanilla. Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients, until combined. Quickly stir in the vinegar until incorporated.
• Divide batter evenly between muffin cups (scant 1/3 cup per cupcake). Bake until tops spring back when lightly touched, about 18 minutes. Cool 5 minutes in pan, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Top cupcakes with vegan frosting (about 3 tablespoons per cupcake).

VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH VANILLA FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 15 individual muffin cups or line cups with paper liners.
• Combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Pour in water, oil, vanilla extract, and vinegar. Mix well into a smooth batter. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, 20 to 30 minutes. Cool in the muffin cups for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool, about 20 minutes.
• Cream margarine in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and fluffy, about 1 minute. Add 1/2 of the confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, while electric mixture is running on low speed. Beat in vanilla soy milk and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Beat in remaining confectioners' sugar until frosting has desired consistency.
• Spoon frosting into a piping bag and pipe over cupcakes. Decorate with sprinkles.

CHOCOLATE CHIP CUPCAKES RECIPE - THE VEGAN CUPCAKE PROJECT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and line a cupcake tin with 12 paper liners.
• In a large bowl, whisk together whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together almond milk, canola oil, raw sugar, and apple cider vinegar.
• Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix until well combined.
• Stir in chocolate chips. They should be evenly disturbed, but be sure not to mix to much else they melt.
• Use an Ice Cream Scooper to evenly distribute the cupcake batter through out the lined cupcake tin.
• Bake for 20 minutes. When a toothpick can be inserted into the center of a cupcake and removed with a few to no crumbs, they are done.
• VEGAN CHOCOLATE GANANCHE TOPPING DIRECTIONS:.
• Heat almond milk to a simmer, either in the microwave or on the stove top.
• Pour the hot almond milk over the chocolate chips in a small bowl.
• Let them sit for 1 minute.
• Whisk for 3-4 minutes or until the chocolate sauce becomes thick and glossy.
• You can refrigerate it for about 10 minutes to get it to a thicker consistency, but you don't have to.
• Generouls spoon the chocolate sauce over the cupcakes and enjoy.
• ABOUT THE CUPCAKE PROJECT: "I am a vegan with a sugar addiction. Everyday I try to make recipes that satisfy my sweet tooth with as little added sugar and as many whole grains as possible." -thesweetestvegan.