Chocolate Cup Cakes
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Serves: 17
 
Ingredients
  • 110g vegan margarine (4oz)
  • 275g self raising flour (1½ cups)
  • 70g cacao (¾ cup)
  • ½ tsp bi-carbonate soda
  • 265g castor sugar (1¼ cup)
  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 flax eggs (2tbsp flax meal mixed with 6 tbsp water – mix just before use)
  • ICING
  • 200g vegan margarine
  • 400g vegan icing sugar (confectioners sugar)
  • ½ cup cacao
  • CHOCOLATE COATED PRETZELS
  • Vegan chocolate
  • Small vegan salted pretzels
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 180C (356F).
  2. Pre-heat oven to 180°C (356°F)
  3. Add flour, sugar, cacao and bi-carb into a large bowl and mix well.
  4. Melt margarine and add milk and vanilla and pour into dry ingredients.
  5. Beat until well combined
  6. Add flax egg and mix well
  7. Spoon into cupcake wrappers in a cupcake tray - an ice-cream scoop gives the perfect amount.
  8. Cook for 15 minutes or a little bit more until a cake tester comes out clean.
  9. Cool in tin for a few minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.
  10. ICING
  11. Beat margarine until creamy.
  12. Add cacao and half the icing sugar. Beat until well combined.
  13. Add the remaining icing sugar and beat well.
  14. Taste the icing and if needed, add some more margarine or sugar to suit your taste buds.
  15. Pipe onto the cooled cupcakes and add a chocolate coated pretzel on the top.
  16. CHOCOLATE COATED PRETZELS
  17. Melt chocolate in a bowl in the microwave (or stove top if you prefer). In microwave, only melt for a 1 minute and then check if it is ready. Give a few more seconds if required.
  18. Place a few pretzels in the bowl and stir with a fork to cover in chocolate.
  19. Using a cake tester (or thin knife) to place the pretzels, one by one on a tray covered with baking paper.
  20. Keep going until all pretzels coated and then place in fridge to harden.
  21. Once chocolate sets, place in an airtight container in the fridge until required.
Recipe by my vegan plate at https://www.myveganplate.com/chocolate-cupcakes/