Chocolate Cupcakes
This recipe is very special to me. It's our wedding cake recipe...what I love is that because we gave our wedding cake baker the recipe to use, we can bake it whenever we want and it will always connect us to our wedding day! We got so many compliments on our wedding day over the cake...some couldn't believe it was vegan (LOVE when that happens). My wedding planner even questioned having the entire cake be vegan. She recommended only the top tier because "it won't be moist or fluffy"! Of course that was not going to happen...only one tier...to a chocoholic, cake loving bride! If I wanted to eat the entire cake myself, I needed that to be an option! In the end the cake was so moist that the powdered sugar that was put on the outside of the cake was absorbed too quickly to be seen. I even put in a request to have extra pieces of cake left in our hotel room to eat when we went back to our room. It was delivered and then someone on staff accidentally threw it out (GASP! I know!). To resolve this horrendous bridal mishap, the resort ordered us another mini naked cake! Heaven! We got to sit on our big fluffy bed with a cake box filled with a fresh, delicious, chocolate cake...two forks, one cake. Married bliss! This is a super moist, perfectly LOVEly chocolate cupcake recipe. We had a naked wedding cake...so here is our naked chocolate cupcakes! <3
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and fill cupcake tin with liners.
- Mix together the almond milk and vinegar in bowl in a large bowl. Set aside for a few minutes to curdle.
- In a separate bowl mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Now go back to the bowl with the almond milk and vinegar. Add the sugar, oil, and vanilla extract and beat with a whisk.
- Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix well.
- Pour the batter into the liners about 3/4 way. Bake 20 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.
