All you need is love…and cupcakes.

vegan-cupcake

Happy Valentine’s Day!  I made these vegan chocolate cupcakes from Chow that I posted about earlier this week.  The basic chocolate cupcake recipe is excellent and you could fool anyone with this.  This recipe was given the kid stamp of approval!  I used dark cocoa powder.

I made the icing recipe suggested with some beet juice added for color (you can’t taste it and it’s natural).  I would recommend adding some other flavoring to it as it needed something — maybe peppermint, lemon, chocolate or the sandwich cookies they offer as an option.  You can also see that it didn’t come out silky smooth, but my icing piping thinga-ma-jig isn’t working, so that might have helped.

I love these cards from some e cards.  They totally fit my cynical sense of humor.

2 Replies to “All you need is love…and cupcakes.”

  1. I’ve made these twice this month! The first time was to send them to my SIL and they travelled beautifully from what I heard. And the second time I made them for a neighbor and that time I used White Whole Wheat from King Arthur Flour. They were just a little nuttier tasting.
    I didn’t have any problems with the frosting, though I did beat it for a really long time. I was quite amazed that they were vegan!

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