PS Birthday Cupcakes

Chef: Lauren Bernick, Well Elephant

Makes: 12 cupcakes

Prep Time: 25 min

Cook Time: 17-22 min

Total Time: 47 min

INGREDIENTS

Cupcakes

  • 1 ½ c flour (spelt, oat, buckwheat, white wholewheat, or any combination)

  • ¼ c cacao

  • ¾- 1 c date paste (Amyinthekitchen.com/date-paste) or ¾ c maple syrup

  • 1 t baking soda

  • ½ t salt

  • 1 c brewed coffee

  • 2 T white vinegar

  • 2 t vanilla extract

  • ½ c unsweetened applesauce

Frosting

  • ½ pkg organic silken tofu

  • ¼ c cacao

  • ¼ plant milk

  • 1 c date paste

DIRECTIONS

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F with rack in the middle. Prepare the muffin tin with cupcake liners.

  2. In a large bowl, vigorously whisk together flour, cacao, baking soda, and salt until there are no lumps.

  3. Make date paste for the cupcakes and frosting. Separate into designated amounts.

  4. In a separate bowl, mix the coffee, vinegar, vanilla extract, date paste or maple syrup, and the applesauce.

  5. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until they just come together.

  6. Ladle the batter into the cupcake liners and cook for 18-22 min, until a butter knife inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Do NOT over-cook. Test at 17 min.

  7. Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for 5 min. Transfer to a cooling rack. Once cool, you can eat plain or coat with frosting.

Frosting

  1. Put all the ingredients into a high-speed blender and blend until creamy. You may have leftover frosting. It makes a great “chocolate pudding”. Refrigerate cupcakes once frosted. As you are ready to eat them, let them come to room temperature for about 15 min.

  2. Birthday Cupcakes adapted from “Simply Recipes”

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