For a long time I had been wanting to make something sweet with pumpkin after reading others blogs filled with delicious pumpkin recipes. So for my first sweet pumpkin recipe I bring to you halloween pumpkin choc-chip cupcakes!
I was quite happy with these cupcakes, I actually thought they tasted like caramel mudcake...although no one else agreed lol. I decided to decorate them with halloween in mind, planning on giving them to trick or treaters, but none turned up! Times like this I wish I lived in the US.
I found this recipe here.Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
makes approx 18
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 ½ cups vanilla soymilk
2 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
1 1/4 cups sugar (I used 1 C because the choc-chips make them quite sweet)
½ cup oil
1 ½ tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
3/4 cup pumpkin
1/4 cup vegan chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 350ยบ. In a small bowl, add the soymilk + apple cider vinegar. Stir well and set aside (the mixture will curdle). In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin, cinnamon, and salt. In another mixing bowl whisk together the soymilk mixture, canola oil, and vanilla extract. Add the wet to the dry ingredients and beat until smooth using a hand-held mixer. add the chocolate chips, and gently fold them into the batter (hand held mixers might break the chips!). Fill each muffin cup 3/4ths the way with batter. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Let cool in the pans for 5 minutes, then remove cupcakes from the pan and place on a wire rack. Let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting.
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Icing
1/2 cup nonhydrogenated vegan margarine (softened, i used earth balance sticks)
1/2 cup vegan cream cheese (softened, i used tofutti)
4 cups confectioners sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Cream together margarine, flavor extracts, cinnamon, and cream cheese until combined. add the confectioners sugar in 1/2 cup batches and mix until smooth and creamy. keep tightly covered and refridgerated until ready to use.
The icing was really yummy, I had never made icing with vegan cream cheese before, but I will be making it like this from now on.
Inside...pumpkin goodness :) 
I was so excited to recieve not 1, not 2, but 3 awards in the last week!
Firstly I would like to thank the gorgeous Imogen of Tia Cherie for the Beautiful Blogger Award. If you like blogs with pretty outfits, visit Imogen's blog, her photos are lovely and always taken in such pretty places. Thanks again Imogen :)
The rules are:
1. Thank the person who nominated me for this award.
2. Copy the award & place it on my blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated me for this award.
4. Tell us 7 interesting things about yourself.
5. Nominate 7 bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs I nominate.
So now I have to tell you 7 (not so) interesting things about myself...
1. I am terrified of moths, but love butterflies.
2. My boyfriend and I plan to one day buy a farm and have farm animals as pets and a huge veggie garden.
3. My favourite food is gnocchi, potato or pumpkin please :)
4. I live 15 minutes walk from the beach, but hardly ever go there.
5. Christmas is my favourite time of year, we get a real christmas tree every year and the smell is amazing every time.
6. I can touch type, I learnt at school and it makes life so much easier!
7. I worry alot, about everything. About what im doing now, what I did or didnt do yesterday, last week, tomorrow, a year from now. Its not a good thing, it makes me think much too much.
And I will pass the Beautiful Blogger Award onto:
Orphan of Easy Veggie
Koralee of Bluebird Notes
Dustjacket Attic
Elaine of Clothed much
Victoria of Florence & Mary
Kelly of Kelly’s Recipes For Life
Maria of Lulu Letty
I couldn't believe that Orphan of Easy Veggie gave me 2 awards! It was a big suprise :) I reccomend that you head on over to Easy Veggie and take a look at her easy vegetarian cooking and healthy shakes. She is also one of the most lovely people ive met in blog land, always so postive, friendly, and happy to help with any questions about her recipes. Thankyou so much Orphan, I really appreciate these awards.
Here are the rules of this award:
This award is bestowed on to blogs that are exceedingly charming.
These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.
They are not interested in self-aggrandizement.
Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.
Please give more attention to these writers.
Deliver this award to six bloggers who must choose six more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award.
So this award goes to:
- Zoe of Dream Come True - Because I love her blog, its filled with pretty things, fun photoshoots, lovely pastel things and shes just the sweetest!
- Mom and Son - Because her photoshoots are just amazing, I love how she puts together her outfits and always includes photos of her adorable son Mr Freddy, he even dresses up for the photoshoots :)
- Clara of Sunflares Plethora - For the honesty of her blog, and her truthful words. I also love the photoshoots Clara does.
- Sophie of Teacups and Saucers - Firstly I love the name of Sophies blog, who doesn't love teacups and saucers. Sophie has lovely outfits which she shares, and pretty makeup too.
Finally, the other award from Orphan is the One Lovely Blog Award.
I would like to pass this award onto:The Duchess of Rose Tea Cottage
Sher of Beneath The Crystal Stars
Ms. B of Millie Deel
Trishiekoh of Under Lock and Key
Guess what! My next post will be my 50th! When I started blogging I thought if i made it to a 50th post I would host a giveaway, and thats what I will be doing in my next post. I have also won two giveaways recently that I would like to show you.
So stay tuned my lovely followers :) and I wish you a lovely weekend!
