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Cupcakes:
Filling:
Chocolate Icing:
Royal Icing:
Make the Cupcakes:
In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a mixer, combine the soy milk, oil, syrup, sugar, vinegar, and vanilla. Mix at medium speed for 2 minutes.
Add half the dry ingredients and mix to blend. Add remaining dry ingredients and mix for 1 minute.
Use a standard ice cream scoop to fill cupcake liners 3/4 full.
Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to cool completely.
Make Filling:
Make Chocolate Icing:
Make Royal Icing:
Assembly:
Using your pinkie, poke a hole in center of each cupcake top approximately 1" deep. Push tip of pastry bag with filling into each hole, firmly squeezing in filling and slowly drawing tip up and out.
When all cakes have been filled, wipe off any excess that sticks out from holes; tops of cupcakes should be flat.
Place cupcakes on a baking sheet or tray that fits in refrigerator. Rewarm pan of chocolate icing over low heat if necessary, stirring constantly. Dip top of each cupcake into icing, swirling to coat completely. When all cupcakes are dipped, refrigerate 10 to 15 minutes to set.
When set, use royal icing to make squiggles across center of each cupcake. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve, up to 1 day.
Posted by Esther Heimberg
Nutritional Info Per Serving: N/A
Nonstick cooking spray
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
3 tbsp. black cocoa powder or more Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup plain soy milk
1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup margarine
1/3 cup shortening
2-1/2 to 3 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup plain soy milk
4 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
2 tbsp. pure maple syrup or confectioner sugar
2 cups confectioner sugar
1 to 2 tbsp. plain soy milk
Heat oven to 350°F. Line a 12-muffin pan with paper liners, and spray lightly with nonstick spray.
In a mixer, beat margarine and shortening until combined. Add 2-1/2 cups confectioner sugar and beat until very fluffy, about 10 minutes. Taste for sweetness and add remaining 1/2 cup sugar if desired. Add vanilla and beat for 1 minute more.
In a small skillet, bring soy milk to a simmer. Reduce heat to very low and stir in the chocolate and maple syrup, stirring until just melted. Turn off heat.
Using an electric mixer or by hand, sift sugar into a bowl and add 1 tbsp. soy milk. Mix, adding up to 1 more tbsp. soy milk until consistency is like stiff toothpaste.
Prepare two pastry bags, one fitted with a large plain tip, and one with a small writing tip. Fill large-tipped bag with filling, and the small-tipped bag with royal icing. (Instead of pastry bags, thick re-sealable plastic bags may be used. For filling, cut off one corner of bag so the opening measures a scant 1/2" across. For icing, opening should be just large enough to pipe a thin line.)