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We're going to a birthday party tomorrow, and Stella can't have birthday cake (peanut cross contamination, yada, yada, yada). Not to mention, most birthday cake isn't likely to be vegan!! So, we have to come to birthday parties with alternatives. Our alternative to birthday cake this time will be Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting from The Joy of Vegan Baking. I used the recipe for Chocolate Cake and just made it into cupcakes. The recipe says that it will make 8 cupcakes.....I got 12 rather large ones from this recipe. The frosting recipe also says it is enough for 8 cupcakes.....again, I frosted all 12 and had extra frosting. The only changes I made were to the frosting recipe. Instead of 3 cups of confectioners sugar I used 2. They were plenty sweet, and I imagine they'd be almost sickeningly sweet if I'd added another cup of sugar. Mairin has a summer birthday so they are celebrating it next week at school, and she's requested these very cupcakes, so I think I'll try even less sugar when I make them next week.We of course had to sample the cupcakes after lunch (actually, I made the girls eat lunch, cupcakes were my lunch.......sssshhhhhh!!) Wow, these are some delicious cupcakes. Better than any non-vegan recipe I've ever used. The recipe is on The Joy of Vegan Baking website, go make these now, don't wait another minute!!
By the way, I couldn't decide which photo I liked better, so I posted them both!!
