Coconut Rough Cupcakes
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Serves: 20
 
Ingredients
  • CUPCAKES
  • 275g self-raising flour
  • 70g Cacao
  • 265g white sugar
  • 1 cup coconut flakes
  • ½ tsp bi-carb soda
  • 2 flax eggs (30g flax meal mixed with ⅓ cup water)
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1½ cup of almond milk
  • 130g vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • COCONUT ROUGHS
  • 300g vegan dark chocolate
  • 250g coconut flakes
  • ERMINE ICING
  • 400g castor sugar
  • 90g plain flour
  • 50g cacao
  • 450ml almond milk
  • 450g vegan margarine
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
Instructions
  1. METHOD
  2. Pre heat oven to 175°C (347°F)
  3. CUPCAKES
  4. Add all dry ingredients (except flax & coconut) to a large mixing bowl and mix well.
  5. Pour oil and milk into mix, add vanilla and beat until combined.
  6. To make the flax egg, mix golden flax and water into a small bowl and mix well. Do this just before you add it to the cake batter otherwise it becomes too thick.
  7. Add coconut.
  8. Beat until all combined – don’t over beat.
  9. Using an ice-cream scoop, add one scoop to each cupcake wrapper.
  10. Bake for 18 minutes. Check with a cake tester before removing from oven because they might need another 2 minutes.
  11. Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack until room temperature.
  12. COCONUT ROUGHS
  13. Melt the chocolate in the microwave in a medium sized bowl. Melt in short bursts checking in between so it melts but does not burn.
  14. Add coconut flakes to the bowl and mix until well combined.
  15. Create small balls of chocolate coconut and flatten slightly onto a tray covered with baking paper.
  16. Place into the fridge to solidify.
  17. ICING
  18. Add flour and sugar to a medium saucepan and place over medium to high heat.
  19. Gradually add milk and stir continuously until the mix is a pudding like consistency.
  20. Transfer container and cover with cling wrap – press the wrap onto the pudding mix to make sure that a skin doesn’t form. Cover container with lid and place in fridge until cooled. I will often do this the night before I need it.
  21. Once cooled, beat margarine until smooth.
  22. Beat in cacao.
  23. Gradually add pudding while mixing. Only add one spoonful at a time and mix well. If you don't add gradually, the icing might split. If it does, you can get it back but it takes a lot of beating. Add vanilla and & mix.
  24. Use your favourite piping nozzle to make a pretty swirl of icing on top of the cupcake. Place a chocolate coconut rough on top.
Recipe by my vegan plate at https://www.myveganplate.com/chocolate-coconut-rough-cupcakes/