so it may have been a little late, but i finally had my secret santa gift exchange with michael's ohio city friend group. it was the chinese new year though, so it seemed appropriate. i had michael's friend noah, who, thanks to maria's queen bee knowledge, i found out is vegan. what a great opportunity to try out a new vegan cupcake recipe. i actually make a lot of my cupcakes vegan (shh!) because i find i prefer the lightness that vegan cupcakes have. there is just a heaviness that comes with eggs and milk in baking and because i don't have a sweet tooth (again shh!) i like to keep it lighter (also the reason i don't pile on the frosting). so i just made the same vegan chocolate cupcakes i always make and then used inspiration from food network's cupcake wars. they had a chef on a few weeks, maybe months, back that actually won the competition by making vegan cupcakes. it was pretty awesome. her winning cupcake was a chocolate strawberry shortcake cupcake and as soon as maria told me noah was vegan, i just knew i had to try to make these! the vegan frosting, well ..... ehhhhhhhh. it just tasted like generic cupcake frosting to me, but i guess that's what happens when you use vegetable shortening instead of butter. next time i might try margarine or coconut oil to see how that tastes. i got tons of positive feedback on the extras i gave out of this cupcake, so i know the frosting couldn't have been as bad as i think, but i just don't like sweet frostings. i actually left one chocolate cupcake aside without any frosting just for me. that was an excellent breakfast friday morning ;)
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