Chocolate stout cupcakes with whiskey caramel glaze.

First off, I’d like to apologize for that unplanned-extended hiatus. The stress level in my life became unmanageable and not only was I unable to attend to this overgrown-yet-sparse blog, but I couldn’t even get myself to eat right (No one probably wants to come to a recipe blog just to see a post for “Pasta and a box of Joe-joes”). I made these originally for a post (planned for the 15th) about March 17th sans corned beef, but really you can make ‘em any time you feel particularly hedonistic. After all, what’s more sinful then a moist, dense chocolate cupcake topped with a frosting made of Jack Daniels, soft caramel and tofutti cream cheese? I think that description encompassed four of the deadly sins already!

Recipe!

For the Cupcakes!

Cream together:

½ cup earth balance

1 cup brown sugar

Then!:

scald ½ cup of soy milk and  mostly-melt in ¼ cup chocolate chips (should look like chocolate milk and slightly clumpy fudge (appetizing sounding, eh?)

whisk the chocolaty concoction into butter and sugar until smooth

Add 1 cup of chocolate stout (Be sure to check if it’s vegan!)

and 1 tsp of vanilla

mix it all up!

Then we add the dry:

2 cups flour

½ cup cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda

¼ tsp salt

Bake!

300 degrees for 30 minutes

And for the frosting, put this all in a little pan!

1 tbsp earth balance  (I like soy-free best, but I’m not sure why)

1 cup brown sugar

¼ cup soymilk

let cook and bubble

¼ cup whiskey

take off heat and let cool

Cream together

1/2 cup toffuti better than cream cheese (be sure to use the kind without unholy amounts of transfats)

1 tbsp earth balence

½ cup powdered sugar

Add the whiskey-caramel mixture.

Let the cupcakes cool, let the frosting cool in the fridge. Then frost the cupcakes. (Still good without cooling if you’re in a rush or, like me, can’t wait.

Hope to be back with more regular posts, and a new fitness on healthy food to help me get my butt (and mind) whipped into shape. I’m going to need to stay strong for this seminar paper.

Take care!

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