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Self-frosting peanut butter and chocolate vegan cupcakes

07/18/2011 by Lara • 2 Comments

Recipe: Wing It Vegan's Self-Frosting Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Total time: 45 minutes
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: soymilk, apple cider vinegar, flax seeds, peanut butter, applesauce

Me: “Honey, I think I’m going to bake something… what would you like?”
Brad: “Um, something with chocolate? Oh wait, I think we’re out of eggs!”
Me: “I have just the thing!”

I’d been saving this recipe for a rainy day when I was sort of out of typical baking ingredients… like eggs. Or milk. Now, I also didn’t have flax seeds, but I did have both the vinegar and the unsweetened applesauce, so I went for it!

These were supposed to be “self-frosting” cupcakes. And they sort of were. But mine certainly didn’t come out as pretty as the original post. That being said, they were absolutely delicious. (more…)