I need vegan cupcake advice please? For frosting and whether to put some fruit inside?!
Answers: So I make these vegan chocolate muffins and I ice with melted dark chocolate but I am wondering if I should stick some raspberrys or boysenberrys in the middle before baking to kinda break up the chocolate. And do you have any other ideas for vegan frosting? The fruit won't make it soggy? Ohhhh or even recipes for different flavor cupcakes? Thanks!
For the frosting you could use soy cream cheese and flavour with pure almond or vanilla essence and dark honey or sugar. - this works with philadelphia..
Whoa...I will really love it. Sorry to become such a first and wasteful answerer. Hope we can share together.
Melted dark chocolate will make a very heavy frosting, well really it will be a ganache and not frosting. You need to whip up some vegan butter spread, some vegan powdered sugar, and then pour in the melted dark chocolate to get a fluffy frosting out of it.
Fresh fruit put on top of the cupcake would be better than putting it in the batter, just for healthier reasons and my preferred tastes. Raspberries with chocolate is better than boysenberries (a lemony cupcake for boysenberries is best).
Try the Vegan Cupcakes Over the World cookbook for more ideas! And it specializes in only cupcakes and not cakes! And they are delicious (especially the Boston Creme Pie one - chocolate cupcake with a vanilla custard in the middle and a chocolate ganache on the top! Yum!).
You sound like you're going for homemade, but when I make (vegan) cupcakes I use Duncan Hines or Pillsbury frosting from the can. Some (not all) of their flavors are vegan. Depending on the cupcake/muffin recipe, the fruit should make it moist (good) but not soggy (bad).