Green Tea Almond Cupcakes

"An absolutely delicious VEGAN green tea cake with almond frosting. A really elegant dessert for just about any get together or celebration! Enjoy them!"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
18
Yields:
16 cupcakes
Serves:
16
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ingredients

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directions

  • Cakes:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line and grease a 12-cup cupcake pan, you may need another pan for additional batter.
  • Whisk together flour, almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, green tea powder, and sugar in large bowl.
  • Combine oil, milk, vanilla, almond extract, and vinegar in a separate bowl.
  • Add the wet mixture to dry and mix using a whisk. Don't mix until completely smooth. Lumps are good.
  • Fill the cups 3/4 full and bake for about 15 minutes until edges just barely begin to brown. Cool.
  • Frosting:

  • Using a mixer, beat the coconut oil, vanilla, and almond extracts until combined.
  • Add the powdered sugar one cup at a time. The mixture will be crumbly.
  • Add water little by little until you reach the desired frosting consistency. YOU MAY NOT NEED TO USE ALL THE WATER.
  • Frost the cakes and decorate. For large cupcakes I made an almond flower and for the small ones I used two slices oriented vertically to like almost like two leaves.
  • Try not to eat all at once!

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Reviews

  1. I made these for a friends birthday part, several people attending were vegan. They loved them! They are very savory, not sweet. That is the only reason I only gave 4 stars - some people will only like these if you add a sweet frosting. I did not use the frosting recipe, I made my own. Mine was a plain vanilla with some prickly pear juice added. It gave it a bright pink color and interesting flavor to match the matcha interesting flavor. I think these cupcakes need something dramatic like that... pomegranite juice would be similar to what I did.
     
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