Vegan coffee and walnut cupcakes
Light and fluffy vegan coffee cupcakes dotted with nuggets of soft chopped walnuts and topped with smooth dairy free vegan coffee icing with a sprinkling of walnut pieces. There is a reason why I confidently name them the best.
Servings: 12 cupcakes
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Alter quantities (metric only) 12 cupcakes
Here's what you'll need...
Ingredients you'll need...
Vegan coffee and walnut cupcakes
- 200 ml almond milk or soya milk
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoon instant coffee
- 1 tablespoon just boiled water
- 200 g plain flour (all purpose flour)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 100 g golden caster sugar
- 70 ml walnut oil or a flavourless oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 50 g chopped walnuts
Vegan coffee icing
- 1 tablespoon instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon just boiled water
- 100 g vegan diary free butter
- 250 g icing sugar sifted
Here's what we do...
Vegan coffee and walnut cupcakes
- Heat your oven to 180°C/160°C Fan/350°F/Gas mark 4
- Line your muffin tin with 12 muffin cases.
- Mix together your almond milk and cider vinegar and set aside.
- Mix your coffee with your just boiled water and set aside to cool then add your vanilla extract.
- Sift together your flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and cinnamon.
- Add your flour mixture and sugars together and give them a whizz together in your mixer to combine.
- Add your oil, coffee, vanilla extract and milk mixture and beat on a medium high heat until smooth, ie about 30 seconds.
- Mix in your chopped walnuts.
- Add just over 2 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon to each muffin case.
- Bake in the centre of your oven for between 15-20 minutes until well risen.
- Remove from your oven and tin and place on a cooling rack.
Vegan coffee and walnut icing
- Add your coffee and teaspoon of just boiled water together, mix and leave to cool.
- Add your dairy free butter and sifted icing sugar and beat until fully combined.
- Add in your coffee mixture and beat thoroughly.
- Ice your cakes in swirls - see blog for a video on how to do this.