Spooky Vegan Cupcakes!

Seeing as it is October, I thought it would be a perfect time to show you all my cupcake recipe, but not just any old cupcakes, spooky cupcakes! So no better time than Halloween!

I found these cute cupcake cases from Morrison's, which I thought will be perfect for this recipe. They also came with a cute little decoration to put on the top of your cupcakes!. I'm also going to show you how to make my delicious vegan buttercream. When I first went vegan, I had no clue how I could make a fluffy icing for cakes because, at first I didn't know vegan butter even existed which now as you can tell by many of my recipes I use it a lot. It just makes turning recipes vegan so much simpler. You could just use the regular ingredients you would have anyway, but just the vegan versions!

For the Butter Cream i used Dr Oetker food colouring. Most of their products are vegan, but always be sure to check the food colouring by them. The one colour I know is not vegan is the red food colouring, which is normally the case when it comes to red food colouring. It is usually very hard to find a vegan red food colouring.

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Spooky Vegan Cupcakes!

by October-25-2017

Ingredients

• 2 Cups Self-raising Flour
• 1/2 Cup Oil
• 1/2 Cup White Sugar
• 1/3 Cup Light Brown Sugar
• 1 Teaspoon Apple Cider Vinger
• 1 Cup Soya Milk
• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Power
• Buttercream.
• 3 Cups Powered Sugar
• 1 Cup Vegan Butter
• 1 Tablespoon Soya Milk

Instructions

1. Add your soy milk into a small bowl, along with one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar & mix. Then set aside as you mix your dry ingredients (Letting your milk and vinegar mixture sit will create "buttermilk")2. In a large bowl, combine your dry ingredients (Flour, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Baking Powder) and mix. Make sure there are no lumps of brown sugar3. Now add your oil, vanilla, vinegar and milk into your dry ingredients and mix until you have a smooth mixture4. Now get a cupcake tray and place your cupcake cases into them. Spoon a tablespoon of batter into each case.5. Then place your cupcakes into the centre of your oven at gas mark 5 (375 Degrees f) (190 Degrees C) for 20 minutes or until they are golden brown.6. Now take your cupcakes out of the oven and let them cool completely before you ice them otherwise your buttercream will melt.Buttercream 1. Add your cup of butter into a bowl and whisk until it's soft and fluffy.2. Now add your three cups of powdered sugar and mix with a spoon before you use your electric mixer, otherwise you'll have a cloud of powdered sugar everywhere.3. Now get your electric whisk and mix the sugar and butter until it's become a slightly crumbly mixture, but it will also form together when you press it.4. So then add a tablespoon of soya milk and whisk. It will now form into a fluffy buttercream5. For my cupcakes I add some food colouring to half the mix. I used Dr Oetker "jet black" food colouring. If you want it to actually go fully black, use the whole container, but I only used a couple of drops to have this light grey/Silver colour, which I think went well with the decorations as it slightly reminds me of the colour of a gravestone or bones.

Details

Prep time: 15 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 35 mins Yield: 21