Vegan Lemon Cupcakes

I was first introduced to Ms Cupcake's amazing cakes at a recent Vegan festival, I received her book,  'The Naughtiest Vegan Cakes in Town' for my birthday and I have been dying to try a recipe ever since.

As I've been having a huge craving for lemon drizzle cake recently, I decided to adapt the basic cupcake recipe slightly. Well there was no real magic here, I just basically added some lemon essence, lemon juice and zest.

I also want to mention that I only had cupcake cases and I think muffin ones would have been better, as there was more icing to cake ratio going on, not that my children minded and believe me when I say that these turned out to be the most amazing and lightest fluffiest cakes I have ever made!

Everyone who had the pleasure of popping over today to try one, commented on how fantastically fluffy and tasty they were. Before changing to a plant-based diet, I was always baking but I just haven't found a Vegan cake recipe that really worked for me until today. I mean I've made Vegan cakes that were ok and tasted good but these were on a whole new level of cupcake heaven.

So here's what I did, I took the basic vanilla cupcake recipe from the book, here's the link


Ms Cupcake: The Naughtiest Vegan Cakes in Town


and yes it's an Amazon affiliated link, which doesn't change the price if you were tempted to buy it, however it would make me a few extra pennies to keep the blog going. This is not a sponsored post, I'm new to blogging and so if I'm ever lucky enough in the future to be sent items to be reviewed I will be honest and tell you guys.

Anyway back to what I did, I took the basic vanilla cupcake recipe but didn't add the vanilla extract, as I added some lemon extract instead. Then I used the vanilla buttercream icing recipe but added some lemon juice instead of vanilla, with some more icing sugar to thicken the icing back up again. Finally I added some lemon zest on the top of the finished cakes.

Seriously these cakes turned out so so good! I thought mixing plant-based milk with cider vinegar was a bit weird but now I'm thinking it must be the secret weapon.

There is only one downside to this recipe and that is these cakes will disappear so fast.

Let me know in the comments if you found any great cake recipes. I absolutely cannot wait to try out more from this book.

Have a great day, stay kind.