Choc Raspberry Cupcakes

 "How can you even MAKE cupcakes without eggs, butter and milk??". 

Simple. Let me share a recipe with you. I made these on the weekend for a vegan picnic I was hosting. 

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes.
Ingredients:
216g plain flour 
4g baking powder 
7g bicarbonate of soda
55g cocoa 
185g dry rapadura sugar 
15g vanilla bean paste 
196g thawed frozen raspberries
317g soy milk 
8 drops of raspberry essence
93g canola oil 

*preheat the oven to 180C
* in a mixing bowl sift flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and cocoa, add sugar and mix well.
*in a separate bowl place raspberries, soy milk, vanilla and raspberry essence. Blend together using a stick blender. 
*add oil to the soy milk mixture, stir through gently.
* slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. stirring continuously to ensure there are no lumps. Go slow. I learned this the hard way...
*divide among  12 large patty pans. I use Robert Gordon ones because they are super cute.


Now I don't have a baking time as I just check to see when the cakes bounce back when touched with your finger. Also a lot of ovens vary temperature.


When cool I use the Vanilla (not) buttercream frosting recipe on my recipes page.

XX Happy Baking XX
I'd love you to let me know how you go in the comments below