23rd February 2010
It’s been a while since I tried out some new flavours, but we saw the upcoming festival in Brighton as a good excuse to broaden our flavour horizons. Our classic flavoured items like chocolate cupcakes or blueberry muffins always do really well but seeing as Brighton is not short of a vegan cake or two we thought we would fancy things up a bit.
Enter the Molasses cupcake.
It is based on the S’more cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Takeoever The World, but since I don’t know what S’mores taste like (!) it’s been tweaked a little.
Molasses Cupcakes
Makes 12
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup oil
- 2 tbsp molasses
- 1/4 cup ‘yogurt’
- 1 1/4 cup ‘milk’
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 packet oat cakes (6 oat cakes) made into crumbs
- Preheat oven to 180ºC, line baking tray with cases.
- Blitz the oat cakes to make fine crumbs.
- Mix the sugar, oil, molasses, yogurt, milk and vanilla.
- Sift the dry ingredients into the wet and add the oat cakes
- Bake for 22 mins.
- I like to add a little Camp to the frosting as I think the deep flavours work well together.
My coffee and walnut cupcakes at Viva’s Roadshow in Bristol proved to be a hit, Sasha thinks this is because it was more of a grown up flavour so it inspired me to try out an earl grey recipe. After having an early grey dessert at Carnevale last week my mind was set!

To drink I have always found it a bit perfumey but used as an ingredient I love it! These cupcakes taste like sweet milky tea.
Earl Grey Cupcakes
Makes 14
Ingredients
- 1 cup ‘milk’
- 2 tbsp loose earl grey tea leaves
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup yogurt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 1 tbsp corn flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 180ºC, line baking tray with cases.
- Heat the milk in a saucepan with the tea leaves, once boiled leave for 10 mins. Using a tea strainer strain the milk and discard the leaves, add more milk if you have less than 1 cup.
- Whisk the sugar, oil, yogurt, earl grey milk and vanilla.
- Sift the dry ingredients into the wet and mix
- Bake for 22 mins.
- I haven’t decided if I will be topping with lemon, vanilla or earl grey frosting for the fayre!
OMgosh I cant wait to try all of these!