April 13, 2012
Strawberry season is just around the corner and this vegan cupcake is the perfect way to celebrate. A strawberry flavored cupcake is frosted with a vegan cream cheese icing. Top each cupcake with a few thin slices of strawberry as a garnish. You may have to shop for some of theses ingredients in a specialty food store (or online) but most should be available to you in your regular grocery store. Vegan strawberry cupcakes welcome the coming of spring and this seasonal berry.
Ingredients:
Cupcake:
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
½ cup unbleached white flour
1 cup non-dairy milk (I used soy)
½ cup oil
¾ turbinado sugar
1 ½ tsp non-aluminum baking powder
2 tsp natural vanilla flavor
1 tsp natural strawberry flavor
Frosting:
¼ cup non-hydrogenated margarine
1 Tbs non-dairy milk
1 cup powdered sugar
¼ cup non-dairy cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp strawberry flavor
¼ tsp natural food-grade red food coloring, or until desired shade of pink
pinch of sea salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place muffin liners in 12 cup muffin pan and set aside. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. In a separate bowl combine non-dairy milk, oil, sugar, vanilla flavor, and strawberry flavor. Combine both and mix until smooth (I used a wire whisk). Fill muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown and spring back when touched Remove from oven, let sit for 5 minutes then transfer to cooling rack.
To make frosting:
Cream margarine and powdered sugar. Add milk, vanilla, and strawberry flavor. Using a hand held mixer cream until light and fluffy. Transfer to refrigerator until stiff.
When cupcakes are completely cooled, frost. Enjoy!!
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Comments
April 13, 2012
Be careful about the red dye. A lot of the time it is made of cochineal, which is a tiny Andean caterpillar - so not vegan. Also, I'm a little disappointed it uses strawberry flavoring and not just mushed up strawberries - they would make it red too.
July 13, 2012
Either i am blind or you forgot to put either the quantity of an ingredient (salt) or to when to add one in the directions (cream cheese). Could you amend your text, please?