95% vegan chocolate cupcakes

I'm a vegetarian who hovers on the line between being vegetarian and vegan. I haven't officially made the step over but I do enjoy alot of vegan food. I've had the cookbook "The Everyday Vegan" by the wonderful Dreena Burton for a while now. I've had my eye on a yummy vegan triple layer chocolate cake recipe in the book and when I finally got around to trying it out, it was so easy to make!



For those of you who don't own this awesome book, she does feature the recipe on her blog which you can view here and has brilliant step by step instructions with photos. If you enjoy it though, I suggest you support this awesome author and go and purchase a copy asap :-)

I used the recipe to make cupcakes (of course!!) but unfortunately my recipe is only 95% vegan as I ran out of time to buy vegan chocolate, so the frosting has normal dairy based chocolate in it. This recipe works so well as cupcakes, and the silken tofu based frosting was delicious with a mousse like texture. I am disappointed that I didn't use vegan chocolate in the frosting, but next time I will take the time to source some and make these cupcakes 100% vegan :-) They were still 100% yum!!

here they are all naked:



and then frosted: