A lot of the time, when I cook vegan, I simply substitute a vegan alternative for an animal product in a recipe. There are so many substitutes out there. I’ll include a list of my favorites in another post.
Of course, there are also “vegan” recipes out there – yes, really – and my mom gave me this cookbook for Christmas, which I’m using as proof to show you:
Now, my mom’s most certainly not vegan, nope, not vegetarian either. And she admitted that she only found this cookbook for me after scrounging around on a table in a bookstore. Though I’m pretty sure there’s other vegans out there…..hello…are you out there??
All that aside, this is an AMAZING Cookbook!!
I offered to bring a dessert to our friend’s house last night for dinner, so I chose the vanilla cupcake recipe.
Very simple ingredients:
- 3/4 cup soy milk
- 1 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup canola (or other neutral oil)
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Since I hadn’t tried this recipe before this, I didn’t want to taste the cupcakes before going to our friends because I didn’t want to stress about them if they weren’t good, and there simply wasn’t time to make anything else. Probably not a smart idea since the cupcakes could taste like shoe leather, but as luck would have it….
they were fabulous!!! (unlike the colors of my photograph – not sure what happened there – so you’ll have to trust me on that one)
Our friends (who are known to be big dessert people) seemed to really be impressed and loved them – even after I confessed they were vegan.
And I think I can trust that they loved them – as I came home with an empty plate.
Enjoy!
rest of recipe
- Preheat the oven to 350F . Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper (I sprayed baking spray)
- In a small bowl, combine the soy milk and vinegar and set aside. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix to combine.
- In a large bowl, combine the sugar, oil and vanilla. Stir in the soy milk mixture. Add the dry ingredients to the web ingredients and stir until smooth. (confession, I used my mixer)
- Pour the batter evenly into the prepared tin, about two-thirds full, and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean – about 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.
- Enjoy!
