Cutest cupcake video EVER: 3-year-old Makes Vegan Pumpkin Cupcakes

Can I just spend all Thanksgiving Day watching this extremely adorable video? Via One Green Planet and it's not just cute, it really has a vegan pumpkin cupcake recipe! Petey Rojas, I hope you will be making more cupcakes and more videos! "What's vanilla?" "You mix it up until the pumpkin goes away." Love this!

Pomegranate cranberry mini cupcakes and recipe link

I just ate some pomegranate seeds during breakfast - I love the sweet/tart combination, so these vegan pomegranate cranberry mini cupcakes by blogger and cookbook author Hannah Kaminsky are right up my alley, and very Thanksgiving appropriate. Visit her blog Bittersweet for the recipe!


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Vegan Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Recipe Link

How yummy do these Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes look?! Did I mention they're vegan? The kicker that sold me on these chocolate delights was that instead of frosting, they're topped with a vegan coconut milk based whipped cream!

At first glance, this just looks like any other cupcake but after I looked over the ingredients it seemed that this cupcake was anything but ordinary. Formulated by user ChefShanaRachel of the website Food52, she promises that this recipe will please vegans and non vegans alike! Check out the recipe here!

Halloween vampire and monster cupcakes, plus Princess Leia, Storm Trooper, Darth Vader and Yoda cupcakes

Perfect for Halloween (or any time), food blogger Rawdorable, who's given us so many wonderful raw cupcake treats, has served up raw vegan versions of Halloween vampire and monster cupcakes as well as 4 Star Wars cupcakes (Princess Leia, Stormtrooper, Darth Vader and Yoda)! Click through on the links to find out how she made them. The monster's face totally makes me smile (how could it not?), and I love the pomegranate seeds inside the vampire one (I've never had a pomegranate cupcake but I do like pomegranate seeds). She got her vampire cupcake recipe from The GirlieGirl Army.

To promote your vegan cupcakes as vegan or not?

That is the question, also asked of other baked goods, by The Wall Street Journal in "Is That Cupcake Vegan Or Just Butter- and Egg-Free?" Excerpt:

BabyCakes NYC bakery specializes in vegan and gluten-free pastries and advertises that on its website. But inside its New York store, "I didn't put signs up that it was a vegan bakery. I didn't want to repel anyone," says owner Erin McKenna.

On a recent afternoon, Ms. McKenna, wearing a 1960s-style miniskirted uniform, demonstrated baking techniques in the kitchen, coagulating soy milk with cider vinegar and stirring it into red velvet cake batter. Customers studied the shop's pink cupcakes and chocolate whoopee pies. BabyCakes, which has outlets in Los Angeles and at Disney World in Orlando, had $1.8 million in sales last year...

Some conventional bakers and chefs agree. Candace Nelson, owner of 10 Sprinkles Cupcakes bakeries, says she and fellow judges on the "Cupcake Wars" series were surprised to find themselves naming vegan bakers episode winners in two consecutive seasons. "We were all like, wow, they're really good," she says.