Vegan cupcakes

Vegan Chocolate Cupcake Recipe


Makes: 12 cupcakes

INGREDIENTS
8fl oz - 1 cup soy milk
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar - or any vinegar, I used wine vinegar
5 oz - 3/4 cup granulated sugar
3 fl oz - 1/3 cup canola oil - I used sunflower oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract, chocolate extract, or more vanilla extract
4 oz - 1 cup all-purpose flour - plain flour
1 and a half oz - 1/3 cup cocoa powder, Dutch-processed or regular
3/4 teaspoon baking soda - bicarbonate of soda we call it in UK!
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt


INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 350°F 175c and line a muffin pan with paper or foil liners.
Whisk together the soy milk and vinegar in a large bowl, and set aside for a few minutes to curdle. Add the sugar, oil, vanilla extract, and other extract, if using, to the soy milk mixture and beat until foamy. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add in two batches to wet ingredients and beat until no large lumps remain (a few tiny lumps are OK).
Pour into liners, filling 3/4 of the way. Bake 18 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack and let cool completely.

icing -

3oz vegan margarine
half tsp vanilla essence
6oz sieved icing sugar
2 oz sieved cocoa pdr.

mix thoroughly and swirl or otherwise decorate the cakes with this. Yum


Anglicised from
From: Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World , by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero

A pig

When I see a pig, as I did recently on our holiday, a lucky pig with a lovely field to dig up and a shelter to retreat to, I see a pink animal whom I know is intelligent, and with whom I may be able to spend a few moments of quality time, scratching it's ears and grunting together. I also imagine it waiting in the abattoir, smelling death, hearing death, but I try not to dwell on this. I do not think of what it tastes like. I do not know what it tastes like, as I have never tasted pig. When I see a row of peas, an artichoke, a peach, I imagine what they taste like. I know others imagine the taste of bacon when they see a pig. I am so happy that I do not.

Vegan household!

Simon has today announced that he too has become vegan. I realise that I am currently a dietary vegan only, as there are many products around the house which will have been tested on animals, many may have animal products in, I am still making felt from wool, I am still wearing leather shoes, albeit only old ones and second hand ones, etc. We have a long way to go, and will probably never get there fully. And, we must consider getting the dogs onto a vegan diet.

I so want to get making the vegan cup cakes I had the other day. So yummy, maybe I could adapt them into a dessert?