Just wanted to do a quick post to recommend an amazing vegan cookbook (well baking book actually). Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World is an amazing little book by Isa Moscowitz and Terry Romero, the queens of vegan cooking. So far I've made their basic chocolate cupcake with chocolate buttercream frosting and an agave nectar cupcake recipe. Both were deliciously decadent and wonderful tasting as well as being really simple to make. I also really liked that they don't call for you to use "egg-replacement powder" as I find it a pain to get hold of and a bit on the weird side. These recipes are both stuck together with curdled soya milk (curdled with the addition of cider vinegar).
I made the agave nectar ones as a gift for someone who is diabetic as I had been informed that agave nectar has a lower GI level than ordinary sugar so should hopefully be less upsetting insulin-wise than normal cupcakes. Agave nectar, for those who don't know of it, is a syrup made form the same plant that they use for making tequilla! It is very sweet and a little smoky so I was interested to see how they turned out. The cupcakes were much more golden than ones made with ordinary sugar - they're picture at the top when they were fresh from the oven. As I'd never tried this recipe before I was really impressed. They're sweet without being cloying and with smoky sort of maple-ish flavour. I'd definitely make them again and the Skulls seemed to like them too....
