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Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cupcakes

November 17, 2014 by Lisa Le 9 Comments

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl

So cupcakes. These aren’t SUPER peanut-buttery, so don’t expect a BAM THIS IS PEANUT BUTTER AND CHOCOLATE SWIRL cupcake. This is more of a deliciously fluffy and moist chocolate cupcake with a kiss of peanut butter. The peanut butter frosting is a balance of sweet, peanutty, and smooth. Basically for this cupcake I focused on the crumb of the cupcake after watching all the available episodes of Cupcake Wars on Netflix.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl

I’ve been alive for 24 years and I’m still getting to know who I am. I like to think that I’m a fairly confident person who doesn’t really care what other people think. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I am not witty. Clever comebacks will never be a thing for me. I identify with being smart, but there are many things that I don’t know and am open to learning about. I know I won’t do something I don’t believe in. I am hyper-rational to a fault and it affects how I connect with people because sometimes I can’t be sympathetic in situations that would normally call for empathy.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl

Sometimes I think I know myself until something happens and my gut reaction is something that is completely unlike what I think is me. The thing that triggered this whole realization was hearing about people I liked talk about me behind my back. Normally when this happens, I like to think that I don’t really care because people gossip all the time, but for some reason, they really affected me. It was a very confusing realization that I cared what these people thought.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl

A good friend of mine told me about it so I’d know, and she knew that I would probably just brush it off and just get over it. Normally that would be the case, but I couldn’t help but feel irrational anger and hurt about it.

After hearing about it, I talked to some people whose opinions I trust: some of them are hyper-rational like me and advised me to do what unbiased me would tell myself; while some were supportive and tried to explain why these people said the things they said.

It took a couple days for me to gather my thoughts about it, and basically I’m over it. Nothing they say is going to affect what I plan on doing (aside from inspiring this extremely vague post). I’m still going to be me. Mostly confident, with a IDGAF attitude, really geeky about food photography and writing about what I care about, not witty except for the rare occasion where my humour coincides with good timing, resulting in a seemingly witty remark.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl

…yup.

So peanut butter and chocolate swirl cupcakes.

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cupcakes

Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cupcakes

Ingredients

For the Peanut Butter Batter

  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup natural peanut butter (nothing but ground peanuts)
  • 2 Ener-G egg replacers (1 tbsp + 1/4 water)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 cup all purpose unbleached flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup milk alternative

For the chocolate batter

  • 1/2 cup + 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 Ener-G Egg replacers (1 tbsp + 1/4 cup)
  • 1/2 tsp vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 all purpose unbleached flour
  • 1/4 cup dutch-processed cocoa powder
  • 1 cup milk alternative

For the Peanut Butter Buttercream

  • 1 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1/4 cup peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup milk alternative
  • 2 1/2 cups sifted icing sugar

Instructions

    For the Peanut Butter Batter

    1. Whisk together oil, sugar, egg replacer, and natural peanut butter.
    2. Sift in baking powder, flour, and salt.
    3. Incorporate milk alternative 1/3 cup at a time and whisk until incorporated.

    For the Chocolate Batter

    1. Whisk together oil, sugar, egg replacer, and vinegar.
    2. Sift in salt, baking powder, flour, and cocoa powder.
    3. Incorporate milk alternative 1/3 cup at a time and whisk until incorporated.

    To make the cupcakes

    1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
    2. Add liners to two cupcake pans (24 cupcakes total). Place both pans on an angle, using a ramekin or something of similar height underneath one side of the pan to sit on an angle.
    3. Fill half the cupcake cavities with the peanut butter batter and it should sink to the bottom edge of the cupcake liner.
    4. Add the chocolate batter quickly and then remove the ramekin from underneath the cupcake pan.
    5. Use a chopstick or a toothpick to swirl around the peanut butter and chocolate batters until you like the way it looks.
    6. Bake for 15-20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean when you poke it into a cupcake.
    7. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. Remove from the pan as soon as you can and let cool completely.

    To make the frosting

    1. Use an electric mixer and beat the shortening and peanut butter until light and creamy. Add the icing sugar and milk alternative and beat until light, fluffy and incorporated.
    2. Transfer to a piping bag and pipe a rosette on your cupcakes! You can be a bit more generous with your icing than I was with the pictured cupcakes because I had a fair bit left over, but I wanted to feature the peanut butter and chocolate swirl in the cupcakes so I was a little skimpy on the frosting.
    © Lisa Le
    Cuisine: Vegan

     

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    Filed Under: Baking, Dessert, Vegan recipes Tagged With: chocolate, cupcakes, peanut butter, swirl

    About Lisa Le

    Lisa is the thirty-something, nerdy, procrastinating, feminist blogger and photographer behind The Viet Vegan. She loves spicy foods, noodles, and food in bowls.

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    Comments

    1. Baby June says

      November 17, 2014 at 1:16 PM

      Mmm those look amazing! So cute and fluffy. wish I had one right now :)

      Reply
    2. cynthia says

      November 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM

      anyone who can cook and bake like you and share these wonderful recipes is aces in my book!! chin up, don’t let them get you down. i’m not much of a baker but i think i might make these. good to kn ow they’re not too peanutty! thank you.

      Reply
      • Lisa Le says

        November 17, 2014 at 3:06 PM

        Aw thank you Cynthia!

        Reply
    3. Katie @ Produce on Parade says

      November 17, 2014 at 6:20 PM

      Cupcake Wars is on Netflix?! Say whhaa? Damn you Alaska and not having unlimited internet available. Does Canada have unlimited internet too? Or is it just the continental US? I’m sorry to hear that people were being turdish. I always think to myself that it doesn’t matter what I do, people are still going to dislike you for one reason or another. But, people will like and love you as well :) So, don’t change. I think you’re awesome! I also am horrific and witty comebacks, something I wish I could harness. Cupcakes make everything better, right?

      Reply
      • Lisa Le says

        November 17, 2014 at 7:30 PM

        Thanks Katie <3 and YES! The one with Chloe Coscarelli isn't on there, but there are 24 episodes available. They're not in order though, I think they're just 24 episodes randomly available. It's on the American netflix though I think. Also I don't have unlimited internet, I used to with an ISP that SUCKED because my internet would always go down, so now I'm on a limited plan but it's way more reliable.

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    4. tamlyn says

      November 24, 2014 at 10:11 AM

      Hi, I have never used or been able to find egg replacers, could I use banana or something else?

      Reply
    5. Becky S says

      November 1, 2015 at 8:03 PM

      What are milk alternatives and egg replacers please?

      Reply
      • Lisa Le says

        November 5, 2015 at 8:39 PM

        You could use any sort of plant milk you like: almond, soy, whichever. I always use unsweetened soy milk, but whatever you like best. The egg replacer I used for this was Ener-G egg replacer, as indicated in the recipe =)

        Reply
    6. Lisa Le says

      October 7, 2016 at 5:47 PM

      Not too sureβ€”maybe half an hour? Bake until a toothpick comes out clean :)

      Reply

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