{"id":10744,"date":"2010-03-08T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=10744"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:47:24","slug":"cinnamon-vanilla-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/03\/cinnamon-vanilla-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinnamon Vanilla Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinn_vanilla_cupcakes2.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10746\" title=\"Cinnamon Vanilla Cupcakes\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinn_vanilla_cupcakes2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinn_vanilla_cupcakes2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinn_vanilla_cupcakes2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last month for Scott&#8217;s birthday we discussed what sort of special dessert\/snacky thing he wanted.\u00a0 A lot of ideas were tossed around and he finally decided on Cinnamon Vanilla Cupcakes.<\/p>\n<p>Those were his exact words.<\/p>\n<p>Dude.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know where he pulled that from! But in this house, whatever my hunny wants is what he&#8217;s going to get.<\/p>\n<p>I poured over some websites and several of my favorite cookbooks and came up with a game plan.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I work. I review several recipes to get an idea of how something is done and then I make my own version.<\/p>\n<p>I fully expect that everyone else operates this way as well.\u00a0 In my head no one follows a recipe exactly, we are all just a bunch of Kitchen Rogues blazing a path with a chef&#8217;s knife in one hand and a kitchen blow torch in the other.<\/p>\n<p>Or something like that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Andrea&#8217;s Cinnamon Vanilla Cupcakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2C Unbleached All-Purpose Flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2C Whole Wheat Pastry Flour<\/li>\n<li>1tsp Baking Powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/4tsp Baking Soda<\/li>\n<li>2tsp Ground Cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>3TBSP Cane Sugar<\/li>\n<li>Pinch salt<\/li>\n<li>2\/3C Vanilla Soymilk + 1 TBSP<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2tsp Vanilla Extract<\/li>\n<li>2TBSP Light Olive Oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preheat oven to 350.\u00a0 In a large mixing bowl, add all dry ingredients and whisk together until everything is combined and &#8220;fluffy&#8221; looking.\u00a0 In a smaller mixing bowl, combine soymilk, vanilla extract, and olive oil.\u00a0 Mix and then slowly add that to the flour mixture.\u00a0 Gently stir the ingredients together.<\/p>\n<p>Line muffin tins with cupcake liners.\u00a0 Fill with cupcake batter about halfway full.\u00a0 Bake for about 7-10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.\u00a0 Remove from oven and allow to cool<\/p>\n<p>Makes about 10 cupcakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinnamon_vanilla_cupcakes.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10745\" title=\"Cinnamon Vanilla Cupcakes\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinnamon_vanilla_cupcakes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinnamon_vanilla_cupcakes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OHC_cinnamon_vanilla_cupcakes.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>These were my first attempt at vegan cupcake making (remember I prefer to bake vegan).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been making cookies and such for a while now so I figured it was time to branch out.\u00a0 Good suggestion Scott!<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the fact that these stuck to the liners a bit more than I would have liked, they came out totally awesome.\u00a0 Due to the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Whole Wheat'>WW<\/abbr> flour they are slightly denser than a regular cupcake but that&#8217;s okay because we like that taste.<\/p>\n<p>We ate them unfrosted but you could totally top them with a chocolate ganche of some sort.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still working on making a great vegan icing that doesn&#8217;t include a ton of powdered sugar and fake shortening (ew).<\/p>\n<p>Hooray cupcakes!<\/p>\n<p>Have fun guys and remember, always play with your food!\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month for Scott&#8217;s birthday we discussed what sort of special dessert\/snacky thing he wanted.\u00a0 A lot of ideas were tossed around and he finally decided on Cinnamon Vanilla Cupcakes. Those were his exact words. Dude.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know where he pulled that from! But in this house, whatever my hunny wants is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70,64],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2Ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}