Vegan Vanilla Cupcakes
The perfect cupcake recipe for literally any celebration, or for when you want to make a cute batch of cupcakes! Vegan vanilla cupcakes made with nourishing ingredients, and a delicious pink vanilla buttercream! They're fluffy, moist but still dense to bite! They're beautiful & perfect!
Ingredients
- 1 +½ cup almond milk room temperature
- ½ cup coconut oil
- 1+½ tbsp apple cider vinegar
- ½ tbsp lemon zest
- ½ tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour or GF flour
- 1 cup cane or coconut sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
Pink Buttercream Frosting
- ½ cup organic grass fed butter
- 3 cups powdered monkfruit sweetener
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1-3 tbsp almond milk add slowly (not all at once may not need all 3)
- 1 tsp beet powder pink colour optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°, and line a muffin tin with cupcake liners
- In a mixing bowl, add your dairy free milk make sure it's at room temperature (slightly warm this to room temp if your taking it right out of the fridge),melted coconut oil, apple cider vinegar and let this it for 10-15 minutes. This is your buttermilk
- In another bowl sift or mix together your flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt
- After your buttermilk has sat for 10-15 minutes, add your vanilla lemon juice and lemon zest! Taste test to see if you need more lemon or vanilla! I always end up adding more!
- Now add your wet ingredients to your mixed dry ingredients and stir until just combined! I let my cupcake batter sit for 30-40 minutes to get the perfect rounded top on my cupcakes or you can bake right away!
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, a toothpick should come out clean! I found 16-17 minutes was the perfect time as they bake still when they come out! Let them cool before icing!
- For the buttercream icing add your softened butter, monkfruit sweetener, and vanilla together in a bowl and beat together! Slowly add your almond milk starting with 1 tbsp at a time! I use about 2 depending on the consistency I'm going for! You want your icing to be thick, smooth and creamy! It should easily hold its shape! Add you beet powder now to make it pink! Fill a piping bag and decorate your cupcakes!