Avocado and chocolate? Absolutely! You can’t taste the avocado, but it takes the place of eggs, as well as some of the oil. These cupcakes are so rich, moist, fluffy and decadent. Even the Husband said, “Oh man, these are dangerous.”
INGREDIENTS:
Cupcakes:
1-1/2 C flour
3/4 C unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 avocado, pitted and peeled
1 C pure maple syrup (I used light pancake syrup)
3/4 C plain soy milk (I used almond milk)
1/3 C canola oil
2 tsp vanilla
Glaze:
1/4 block soft silken tofu (from a 14-oz container), drained and patted dry
3 Tbs pure maple syrup (again, I used light pancake syrup)
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
4 oz semisweet chocolate chips, melted
DIRECTIONS:
To make the cupcakes, preheat oven to 350. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Puree the avocado in a food processor until smooth. Add the maple syrup, almond milk, oil, and vanilla; blend until creamy. Whisk into flour mixture.
Spoon the mixture evenly into the muffin cups. I wasn’t sure how much to fill them because you never know with muffins, but as long as you evenly divide the batter among the cups, you’ll be fine.
Bake for 25 minutes.
To make the glaze, blend the tofu, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt in the food processor. Add the melted chocolate and blend thoroughly.
Transfer to a bowl.
Dip the tops of the cupcakes into the glaze, pulling up straight to form peaks. Enjoy!
Recipe: Vegetarian Times
What??!!! I HAVE to try this. We are getting sick of the flaxseed egg. The smell/flavor of flax is so strong it overpowers most of the stuff I make. What is the conversion here? 1 avocado = 1 egg?
Don’t you just love baking with avocado? It has be to one of my favorite discoveries I’ve made this year. These chocolate cupcakes look simply divine. Can I have one please? Thank you for sharing with me, sweet friend. Have a beautiful Thursday!
Avocado cupcakes?? This sounds so bizarre, I am going to have to try to make them. Maybe I can do something like Julie and Julia, except it would be Kerrie and April, and I wouldn’t do it for a year–maybe for one month, I try one of your recipes each day and I blog about it. Hmm–it’s a thought
That’s an awesome idea!
I have never thought about frosting/icing cupcakes like that before. You. are. brilliant!
Why, thank you. I try to achieve brilliance at least once a day. Most often than not, it doesn’t happen. 😉 But I try!