Dairy Free Chocolate Cupcakes
The Best Dairy Free Chocolate Cupcakes EVER! It is everything that you wish for in a cupcake. Moist, rich, and of course super chocolatey. Paired with our dairy free chocolate frosting for an absolute treat.
Servings: 27 cupcakes
Calories: 193kcal
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups flour use gluten free if needed
- 1 ½ cups cake flour use gluten free if needed
- 1 ½ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 ¼ cups vegan sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 2 ¾ cups unsweetened almond milk divided
- 1 cup applesauce love this homemade applesauce
- 1 ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup coconut oil + more for greasing pans
Optional Ingredients
Instructions
- Place cupcake liners in 27 regular size cupcake tins. Set aside.
- Add all 7 dry ingredients into a sifter and sift into a medium sized bowl. Set aside
- Inside a one cup measuring cup, add the 1 tablespoon white vinegar. Fill the remaining measuring cup with almond milk until you get to the top of the measuring cup. Let sit for 10 minutes. (This makes the almond buttermilk)
- In a large bowl, add the applesauce, maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, vanilla, and almond buttermilk after it has set for 10 minutes. Beat on low speed just until combined.
- In a small saucepan, add the remaining 1 ¾ cup almond milk and coconut oil to a small saucepan. Bring to a boil.
- While waiting for the almond milk mixture to boil, in 4 parts, mix in the dry ingredients to wet ingredients on low speed. Just until blended. DO NOT OVER MIX.
- Once boiling, remove almond mix mixture from heat and pour into chocolate cake bowl. Using a spatula, fold in just until combined, scraping down any mixture if needed.
- Let bowl set for 5 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Fill up cupcake tins ¾ of the way full.
- Bake in oven 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack. Let cool completely in order to frost.
- Frosting cupcakes one at a time.
- Add any optional toppings – some ideas would be chocolate shavings, fresh berries, coconut flakes, or chopped nuts like walnuts or peanuts.
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Notes
**Nutritional facts are just estimates. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Nutritional facts do not include chocolate frosting.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cupcake | Calories: 193kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 200mg | Potassium: 158mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 5IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 67mg | Iron: 1.1mg