Chocolate Orange Cupcakes- Vegan!

modified from ppk

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 16 delicious cupcakes

Ingredients

• 2  cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 3⁄4 cup  Dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon sea salt
• 2⁄3 cup prune, pureed
• 1  tablespoon stevia
• 1  cup soymilk
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄4 cup  orange juice
• 1  tablespoon  orange extract
• 2  ounces  semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 2  tablespoons  finely grated  orange peel

Directions

1. Melt the chocolate in the microwave (1 minutes high heat) or my preferred way - a makeshift double broiler (boil some water in a small sauce pot, put a small saute pan over the sauce pot, lower heat, add chocolate, stir occasionally with a plastic spatula until melted ), let cool.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cocoa, set aside.
3. Whisk together wet ingredients (prunes through orange extract) until foamy, add orange peel. Add wet ingredients to dry and combine. Fold in melted chocolate.
4. Line 16 (or possibly more) muffin tins with cupcake liner. Pour batter in, filling cup 3/4 of the way.
5. Bake at 350 20-25 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.