Ultimate Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes

4.67 from 3 votes

These Ultimate Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes have the perfect amount of chocolate flavor in these sinfully delicious moist and light cupcakes and equally in that luscious ultra chocolate frosting. Egg-free and dairy free!

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American, vegan

Diet: Vegan

Keyword: chocolate, cupcakes, healthy, vegan

Servings: cupcakes

Calories:

Author: Kim Lange

Ingredients

Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes:

1 cups almond milk + 1 teaspoon white vinegar
⅓ cup canola oil
¾ cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon chocolate coffee or vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour or gluten free flour
⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder sifted
¾ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
⅛ teaspoon salt

Chocolate Frosting:

½ cup Vegan butter, room temperature I used Earth Balance
⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder sifted
2 ½ to 3 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon chocolate coffee or vanilla extract
1-2 tablespoons almond milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line prepared muffin tins with paper liners. Lightly spray with non stick cooking spray and set aside.

Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes:

In a measuring cup, stir almond milk and vinegar together. Set aside to curdle for 5-10 minutes.
In a large bowl, using mixer, beat oil and sugar together. Mixture will be gritty.
Add in extract of choice and mix.
In a different bowl, whisk together all dry ingredients together until evenly mixed. Alternate mixing in wet and dry ingredients to the oil/sugar batter starting and ending with dry.
Pour evenly into prepared muffin tins with paper liners, fill 3/4 of the way full and bake 15-18 minutes.
Make Chocolate frosting while cupcakes are cooling.

Chocolate Frosting:

Using mixer, whip butter and cocoa together until smooth in large bowl. Stir in extract of choice and powdered sugar. Add in almond milk and whip until frosting reaches desired consistency until light, fluffy and smooth, 1-2 minutes.
.When the cupcakes are fully cooled, pipe frosting on top or spread over top of cupcakes. Frosts 12 cupcakes.

Notes

For the frosting, you can substitute butter for the vegan butter if you don't care about the vegan option.