Mini Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cupcakes!

I made these yesterday for a potluck, and OMG! They're so soft and fluffy and delicious... and the brown sugar gives the outside of the cup a little crust so when you bite into it... the inside is like a cloud! Totally vegan AND gluten free! How can you go wrong, really? :) I opted out of doing the lemon glaze* I usually do with this recipe, but you certainly can!

I originally adapted this recipe from a (wheat heavy) vegan chocolate cake recipe found on Vegweb.com, and also substituted coconut milk for the normal oil/water mix, and I'm very pleased. It gives the cake a richness and extra depth of flavour that you rarely find in cakes. I'm so happy to be able to share this with you!!


1.5 cups of rice flour
5 tablespoons of sifted good quality cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
1 tablespoon raw apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup coconut milk
about a handful of chocolate chips (more or less if you like) :)

Put your flour into mixing bowl, add cocoa, baking soda, brown sugar, salt and mix well.

Make two deep holes in the dry mix. Into one, pour the vinegar (oooh... bubbly) into the next, pour the vanilla. Then, pour the coconut milk in, over all of this, and mix it all up until there aren't any more lumps, then fold in the chocolate chips.

Use a tablespoon to fill your mini cupcake pan (available at most places) so the cups are about 3/4 full.

Bake at 350 for about 15-20 minutes.

Makes about 1 1/2 pans, but I usually double or triple the recipe, as I've done it other ways in the past.



*Note: You can also use this as regular cupcakes, or in a cake/sheet pan. This was made as a sheet cake for a friend's birthday originally, with a tart lemon glaze.

Here's the rough glaze recipe:
Juice and zest of about 2 lemons and about a cup of raw confectioner's sugar, whisked together to make a moderately thin (but not runny) glaze. You can add more or less of either ingredient to find the consistency you choose. To spice it up, zest a bit of lime or orange into the mix! :)