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: 12cupcakes
Calories:
Author: Kim Lange
Ingredients
Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes:
1cupsalmond milk + 1 teaspoon white vinegar
⅓cupcanola oil
¾cupsgranulated sugar
1teaspoonchocolatecoffee or vanilla extract
1cupall purpose flouror gluten free flour
⅓cupunsweetened cocoa powder sifted
¾teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonbaking powder
⅛teaspoonsalt
Chocolate Frosting:
½cupVegan butter, room temperatureI used Earth Balance
⅓cupunsweetened cocoa powder sifted
2 ½ to 3cupspowdered sugar
1teaspoonchocolatecoffee or vanilla extract
1-2tablespoonsalmond 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.