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Deliciously fudgy dairy and egg free Chocolate Orange Cupcakes with fluffy chocolate buttercream frosting. You'd never know these are vegan! #veganbaking #veganrecipes #vegancupcakes #veganfrosting #veganbuttercream | Recipe on thecookandhim.com

Vegan Chocolate Orange Cupcakes

Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 25 mins | Total: 45 mins | Quantity: 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes:

  • 1/2 cup (120ml) unsweetened almond milk (or dairy free milk of choice)
  • 1/2 cup (120ml) coconut yoghurt
  • 1 orange – grated zest and squeezed juice
  • 1 cup (200g) plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/4 cup (20g) raw cacao powder
  • 1/2 cup (100g) caster sugar

Frosting:

  • 3/4 cup (190g) vegan butter (the block kind not the spread) – softened if you’re mixing by hand
  • 1 + 1/2 cups (180g) icing sugar
  • 1/4 cup (20g) raw cacao powder
  • 1 orange – grated zest only

Optional topping:

  • Vegan cake sprinkles
  • Vegan chocolate chips
  • Candied orange slices (see blog post for instructions how to make these!)

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 180 Fan / 200 C / 400 F / Gas 6 and line a muffin tin with 12 muffin or large cupcake cases
  2. Put the milk, yoghurt and orange juice and zest into a jug and whisk together
  3. Into a large bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cacao powder
  4. Stir in the caster sugar
  5. Add the jug of wet ingredients to the bowl and using a rubber spatula mix them together, stirring up from the bottom of the bowl to get rid of any flour 'pockets'
  6. Evenly divide between your muffin cases - filling each one 2/3 full then bake for 25 minutes until a cocktail stick inserted into the centre of a cupcake comes out clean with no raw cake clinging to it
  7. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then lift out onto a wire rack to cool completely
  8. While they're cooling beat together the frosting ingredients - you can do this with a stand mixer or by hand but you'll need to make sure the block butter is softened if mixing by hand. Beat until very well mixed, soft and fluffy then spoon into a piping bag fitting with a star nozzle (see note)
  9. When the cupcakes have compeltely cooled pipe or spread the frosting onto each one then decorate with whatever sprinkles, grated chocolate, chocolate chips you have to hand!
  10. Store in an airtight container

Notes

  • Use whatever shaped nozzle you have or simply spoon or spread the frosting onto the cupcakes

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/vegan-chocolate-orange-cupcakes/