Vegan Vanilla Easter Cupcakes

Our vegan vanilla Easter cupcakes are deliciously moist and scrumptious. The melt in the mouth muffins are topped with a vegan vanilla buttercream that's creamy but leaves you with a clear conscience.

Our new citrus chocolate bunnies love hopping around the garden of cupcakes, while our chocolate brazils make great cupcake decorations as they resemble chocolate eggs!

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 Ingredients 

• 220g gluten free flour 
• 200 g coconut blossom sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder 
• 1/2 tsp salt 
• 180 ml non-dairy milk, I use almond 
• 70 ml vegetable oil or coconut oil
• 60 ml water 
• 2 tsp vanilla extract Vegan 
• Vanilla Buttercream 
• 230 g vegan butter (room temperature) 
• 360 g powdered coconut blossom sugar 
• 1tbsp non-dairy milk 
• 1 tsp vanilla extract 

Instructions To make the vanilla cupcakes.

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C (Gas 5) 
2. Line a muffin tin with 12 baking cups and spray with cooking oil. 
3. In a medium bowl, stir together dry ingredients as flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. 
4. In a separate bowl combine the non-dairy milk, water, oil, and vanilla extract. 
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and gently whisk together until the batter fairly smooth. 
6. Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tin so that they are 2/3rds of the way full. 
7. Bake for 20 minutes( until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean). 
8. Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool completely. 

To make vanilla buttercream 

1. In a stand-up mixer, use paddle attachment to beat the vegan butter for 3 minutes. 
2. Turn the mixer to minimum power and slowly add the powdered sugar with the engine running. 
3. After the powdered sugar is mixed, turn the mixer back on to maximum power and beat for another 3-5 minutes, until it becomes thick and creamy. 
4. Reduce mixer capacity, add non-dairy milk and vanilla extract and beat until smooth. When cupcakes are completely cool, apply the buttercream to the muffins.

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