Babycakes Friday: Chocolate Cupcakes

Last time I made cupcakes I confessed to you that I don’t really like cupcakes.

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It’s not that I don’t like to eat them. It’s because I’m not good at frosting them. So why make them again? Because next week’s Babycake’s recipe uses these little ditties as a base. So I had to make cupcakes this week.

It was pure torture playing with sprinkles and cute cupcake wrappers (thank you Janetha!) and eating cake. Torture, I tell you.

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Oh, and because I hate frosting cupcakes, I just did my own thing. I used this chocolate sauce recipe of mine instead of the one from the cookbook. I think it worked out okay.

And if it didn’t, you can’t tell because I went wild with the sprinkles.

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They were delicious. I mean…really good. I think cupcakes (especially vegan and gluten-free) are tricky sometimes because they get really dry – but these bad boys were rich and cakey and wonderful.

Which is why I’m headed out the door to school so I can take the entire batch to my old co-workers from last year. I don’t need to eat 24 cupcakes this weekend.

How about this little cupcake?

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My heart melts into a big puddle when I look at this picture.

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This is a post in a series I’m doing called Babycakes Friday. Each week I review a recipe out of theBabycakes Cookbook. I have no affiliation with the company, I just really like healthy, vegan treats.

38 thoughts on “Babycakes Friday: Chocolate Cupcakes

  1. Looooove Babycakes Friday because I’m always curious as to what pic you’re going to post of the little one! Plus, seeing delicious baked goods helps, too ;) I need a good vegan cupcake in my life, that’s for sure!!!

  2. I just showed Will baby A’s picture and he smiled :) He knows a cutie pie when he sees one! I happen to like the look of the chocolate sauce on top–especially with the sprinkles.

  3. Adrienne is just BEAUTIFUL. My 10 month old is sitting on my lap as I read your post, and he is trying to grab the picture of her on the screen. I think he’s in love. The cupcakes look great, but Baby A is stealing the show!

  4. Oh my gosh! Adrienne is just absolutely beautiful! :)

    So I told you how I’ve made those raspberry scones and my husband and loved them, right? Well i’ve made them 3 times already and played with the ingredients because we cannot get enough! I think it’s time I move on to a new recipe tho!

  5. First off, I cannot remember how I found your blog, but I am hooked. Hooked! Your healthy eats are very inspiring, and they make me wonder why I haven’t “stepped out of the culinary box” more. I mean really? Is there a law against eating out of an almost empty nut butter jar? Certainly not, but why oh why have I never thought of it before?! So thank you for that.

    Also, I am blessed enough to live in a city that has a Whole Foods. I can shop there only because I enforce a strict budget in other aspects of my life. Imagine my surprise when yesterday, after writing almond butter on my list solely from your posts, I discovered a whole space with various Justin’s almond butter? I snatched up the maple flavor and holy smokes it is delicious. Thanks for the new and inspiring ideas! I have gone back to the beginning of the blog and love watching your life grow to the point it is at now (is that creepy?).

    I have a ood blog but I haven’t updated for over a year ::gasp::. You make me want to make it active again.

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