Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
Submitted by Isa
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| prep time: 20 minutes | cooking time: 20-25 minutes | makes 16 cupcakes |
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| This is a rich chocolate orange experience. Use your favorite chocolate icing with the zest of one orange added to it, or my simple icing below. Decorate with orange slices cut into quarters. Voted the best vegan cupcake by people who love cupcakes. (Um, well my friends say it is anyway) |
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Equipment:
Microwave ~OR~ Small sauce pot and small saute pan
Ingredients
2 cups flour
1/2 cup Dutch processed cocoa (like Droste)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup maple syrup
3/4 cup soy milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
2 oz semi sweet chocolate, chopped
1 tablespoon finely grated orange peel
Directions
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.
Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cocoa, set aside.
Whisk together wet ingredients (oil through Grand Marnier) until foamy, add orange peel. Add wet ingredients to dry and combine. Fold in melted chocolate.
Line 16 (or possibly more) muffin tins with cupcake liner. Pour batter in, filling cup 3/4 of the way.
Bake at 350 20-25 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
Simple icing: Equal parts soybean margarine, vegetable shortening and confectioners sugar (For this recipe 1/2 cup of each should suffice). Grated orange zest to taste. Cream everything well with a soft spatula. |
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Reviews (add your own)
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| shelli wrote on Tuesday September 23rd, 2003 08:38 AM |
 four soybeans |
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These cupcakes are great. Very satisfying for people like me who like chocolate and orange flavors together. The icing is yummy with a creamy texture. I may add mini chocolate chip next time. |
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| Justin wrote on Wednesday September 24th, 2003 08:41 PM |
four soybeans |
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I didn't bake these my wife did, but they were amazing, not too chocolate-y, not too orange-y, perfect balance. |
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| Elizabeth Sainz wrote on Thursday December 04th, 2003 03:05 PM |
four soybeans |
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These turned out great. I loved the chocolatey-orange combo. Thanks for the recipe! |
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| laurasings wrote on Thursday December 11th, 2003 12:44 PM |
 three and a half soybeans |
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these cupcakes are beyond delicious! the flavor is perfect. but i found they crumbled very easily, which made for messy eating. when i make them again (because i will - often), i'll cut the oil and soymilk slightly and add an egg replacer. |
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| sue miller wrote on Saturday January 31st, 2004 01:40 PM |
four soybeans |
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Really like the strong coco flavor against the orange...substituted 1/2 honey and 1/2 applesauce for the sweetener. Made this recipe twice in the same week! |
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| Matt wrote on Tuesday February 10th, 2004 11:28 PM |
 two and a half soybeans |
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The batter tastes good, but the cupcakes taste more like weird muffins than cupcakes. Depending on your oven, I suggest extending the cooking time by 5 or 10 minutes so they are less mushy. Also, don't use the icing recipe from this page. If you do, you'll need to add about 4 times as much sugar as it calls for unless you like icing that tastes like margarine. |
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| Jenny Aron wrote on Friday February 13th, 2004 04:47 PM |
four soybeans |
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To make these right away, without visiting the store, I made major substitutions...instead of cocoa and 2-oz. of semisweet chocolate, I used a 12-oz. package of semisweet chips, melted, and cut down the oil to 2tbs. and the maple syrup to 2/3 cup. No Grand Marnier, so I added a tbs. each of Frangelico and Absolut Mandarin. Used more powdered sugar in the frosting to achieve the consistency I wanted. Like everyone else said, the chocolate and orange flavors really compliment each other. Yum! |
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| VeggieDee wrote on Monday May 24th, 2004 11:26 AM |
four soybeans |
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Oooh la la! I am a big fan of the PPK, but this recipe really cinched it! Everyone went bonkers for these fabulous cupcakes. Extra rich, with just a hint of orange. You could double the Grand Marnier if you like a stronger flavor... Oh Baby! This is good stuff! |
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| mishka wrote on Monday June 28th, 2004 01:07 AM |
four soybeans |
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i am addicted to these cupcakes! wonderful, rich and chocolate-y. i made them for my 2 year old's birthday party and the kids even loved them. because my husband is sensitive to too much flour, i substituted 1 cup of the flour with rice flour and they were still wonderful; a little more delicate and crumbly. i even tested a batch without using the chocolate chips to reduce the sugar and they still stood up to the test -- wonderful! this is a solid recipe worth hanging onto. |
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| Rebecca wrote on Tuesday November 30th, 2004 01:48 PM |
four soybeans |
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These chocolate muffins are DELICIOUSE. My cook teacher was realy proud when i presented mine to her. She tried 1 and said it was deliciouse.....
MAKE YOU OWN !!!!!!!!!! JUST TRY.
Rebecca age 12 I cant wait for Christmas !!!!!!!!!!!! 25 days left ! |
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