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Mocha Cupcakes with Coffee Frosting
I made these for Calista’s bake sale at school – quick, easy, and what’s better than coffee and chocolate! This vegan chocolate cupcake is wonderful.
Ingredients:
- Cupcakes:
- 3 c unbleached, all purpose flour
- 2 c raw sugar
- 2 t salt
- 2 t baking soda
- ½ c cocoa powder
- ¾ c vegetable oil
- 2 t vanilla
- 2 T white vinegar
- 1 c cold coffee
- 1 c cold water
Frosting:
- 4 c powdered sugar
- ½ c vegetable shortening
- ½ c cold coffee
- a little soy or almond milk
- vegan chocolate covered espresso beans (if you want)
Directions:
- Combine dry ingredients in large bowl.
- Add in wet ingredients, mix until well blended.
- Pour batter into paper lined cupcake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 – 18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into cupcake comes out clean.
- While cupcakes are cooking and cooling, prepare frosting. Put shortening in medium bowl add about ½ of powdered sugar, mix, add more powdered sugar and coffee.
- Mix until desired consistency, if you need more liquid, add a few tablespoons of non-dairy milk. If frosting is too thin, add more powdered sugar.
- Frost cooled cupcakes with frosting and top with vegan chocolate espresso beans.
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Vegan cupcakes are definitely one of the most unique cupcakes I have ever heard.. Anyway, I should give this a try..
Hey thanks for the recipe. I mixed up most of the ingredients and I am almost ready to bake them. However I was wondering how much “2 f sugar” is?
Thanks!
OMG! Sorry about that, need to remind myself not to post and proofread when I am tired! Recipe should read 2 cups of raw sugar. Hope they turn out well for you, my daughter’s bake sale gobbled them up!
oooohhh these are next on our list to do. We specialize in everything needed to make these cupcakes and more at CookDazzle.com. http://blog.cookdazzle.com/nine-out-of-ten-people-like-chocolate-the-tenth-person-always-lies-john-q-tullius/
They turned out really great, and were a hit at my daughter’s bake sale.
Yum – the coffee in the frosting sounds delicious. I love chocolate but find choc cake with choc icing a bit boring. This seems like an awesome alternative.
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Yeah, the frosting is super tasty, I definitely vote anything mocha over plain chocolate. If you can find them, vegan chocolate espresso beans are of course an awesome topper!