Tropical Cupcakes!

Summer is just around the corner (only 1.5 weeks until school ends!) so here’s a tropical cupcake recipe to start it off well! (They’re vegan too!)

Tropical Cupcakes: (makes about 12)

Ingredients:

For the cupcakes-

• 1 + 1/3 cup flour (I used whole wheat)
• 2 flax eggs
• 1/2 cup apple sauce
• 1 tsp. coconut extract (imitation in fine if you can’t find the real deal)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup “buttermilk” (1 cup milk + 1 T vinegar)*
• A little over 1/2 cup sugar*

For the frosting-

• 1/2 block [soft] tofu
• 2 T coconut butter (or coconut extract, or both!)
• 1 container apple sauce
• 3 T butter/margarine* (I used vegan margarine)
• 3 T cream cheese* (I used tofu cream cheese)
• Splash of milk*
• Shredded coconut, for topping (optional)

*For vegan cupcakes, make sure you use soy/nut milk and vegan (sugar, butter, cream cheese).

Preheat oven to 350F.  Mix dry ingredients in once bowl, and wet in another. Combine all ingredients together. Pour into a muffin tin-lined muffin pan, so each one is about 2/3 – 3/4 full.  Put in oven for 20-30 min.

Frosting-

Put the all the frosting ingredients in a blender to mix. Then you have your frosting!

Frost cupcakes and then EAT!

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