Lemon Gem Cupcakes

Kozmic Blues's Note:

These are sunny, bright and FULL of amazing lemony flavor! Are are 100% vegan! From: Veganomicon, The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook. This recipe uses rice milk for the cakes and soy milk for the frosting. I have made them using soy milk in BOTH, and they turned out just fine!

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 12 cupcakes

Cupcakes

• 1 1⁄3; cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup canola oil
• 2⁄3; cup sugar , plus
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup rice milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ cup lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest

Frosting

• ¼ cup vegan margarine , softened (non hydrogenated)
• ¼ cup soymilk
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar , sifted

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Line a 12 muffing tin with paper liners.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
4. In a separate bowl, combine oil, sugar, rice milk, vanilla, lemon juice, and zest.
5. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet and mix until smooth.
6. Fill each muffin tin about 2/3 full.
7. Bake cupcakes for 17-20 minutes.
8. Remove cupcakes from muffin tin, and place on wire cooling rack.
9. Frost when fully cooled.
10. For the frosting: Beat the margarine with a hand mixer until fluffy.
11. Stir in soy milk and lemon juice.
12. Add confectioners sugar and mix until smooth.
13. Frost cupcakes.

Reviews

[valburke]

hey, just made these. i had a terrible time with the frosting. it was way too runny, i used about 5 cups of powdered sugar, still pretty thin, but i used it to frost them. they're in the freezer now, trying to firm up. looking forward to tasting them, i love lemon! i will eliminate the milk in the frosting next time..

[saranac2000]

and, when i did make these as cupcakes a few different times, they were TOO DIE FOR!!! i & my fam (none of whom are vegan) are HUGE lemon fans & these were INCREDIBLE!!!

[Elise_the_vegan]

I loved the flavour of the cake and my daughter and I had fun making them, but I did have some of the same issues that other people had. My cakes stuck badly to the paper and the icing is insanely runny. I would advise not to even waste you time with the icing.