the vegan plight

So sometimes when you're a vegan you find some amazing recipe and you realize that in order to make that recipe you must also make each individual component of it. This isn't really that much of an obstacle, considering if it can be made then you most certainly are capable of making it, but it's annoying when you just want to be fat, lazy, and full of cupcakes, so maybe in the future you'll see a vegan version of these lovelies, including a recipe for home made vegan heath bars (my favorite candy bar) but for you now all of you non-vegans can make the original recipe and clog your arteries in the process :)
So I wanted to make red velvet cupcakes the other and I turned to my trusty VCTOW and while I was making them I decided to double the amount of coco powder and the amount of almond extract. Wow. They were so delicious. I won't repost the recipe because it wasn't my own, but anything by the genius Isa Chandra is delicious, I guarantee it. If you don't know about her she is the main pioneer behind vegan cuisine, she is the person that took vegan food from cardboard flavored vegetables to delicious culinary creations that even the fiercest chef would accept. She is a goddess, buy everything she writes! Anyways these cupcakes with my modifications and with a basic cream cheese frosting tasted just like Kahlua and cream and they looked beautiful too, I called them black velvet cupcakes. I will have a recipe for you darlings soon, this weekend I plan on trying madeleines again and making some blueberry muffins!

My Black Beauties