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Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cupcakes (Vegan)
March 12, 2008 |
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. - Jim Davis
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“I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.†- Sarah Jessica Parker
A balanced diet without chocolate is a bad idea. The only way to counter a bad idea is with a better idea. Chocolate + peanut butter is a great idea.
Think about it. Between them, they cover four of the five food groups.
Chocolate itself is a food group. It also encompasses two other food groups - vegetables and good fats. 
Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Beans = vegetable.
Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable. Source.
If it’s milk chocolate, it has protein as well. That leaves out grains, which these cupcakes have plenty of.
Then there’s the frosting - which is literally the icing on the cake. Peanut butter is chockful of protein (and good fats). And peanuts are legumes, which are also veggies.
A piddly little cupcake that’s so good for you, it ought to be illegal.
These cupcakes were inspired by The Best Cooker’s Vegan Chocolate Cake.
“A simple, moist chocolate cake. One that is not too chocolatey but still quite satisfying,” she says.
Huh?? What the heck is ‘too chocolatey’? Is there such a thing? 
We didn’t want anyone to accuse our cupcakes of not being too chocolatey. 
So we added some dark choc … antioxidant veggies to the recipe. 
And reduced the oil and suga… cane fruit. 
And added the pean… legume frosting. What’s a cupcake without frosting?
We used organic store-bought peanut butter - just two ingredients: peanuts and salt. Avoid the brands that have other ingredients like partially hydrogenated oils. Or make your own.
Blend 1 cup chopped peanuts to a smooth paste with 1.5 tablespoons oil and a pinch of salt.
We, who are not big fans of frosting, liked this salty-sweet variation. A great way to have your veggies and eat them too. 
Sashtang namaskar, dear Cookerji.
Vegan Antioxidant Veggie and Legume Cupcakes
(Makes 15 medium cupcakes)
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Mix together and set aide
1.5 cups wholewheat pastry flour (or all purpose flour)
2/3 cup raw cane sugar (or more)
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
Mix together
3 ounces chopped dark chocolate
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
**or mashed banana or more oil
1 tsp instant coffee granules plus 2/3 cup hot water
(or 2/3 cup hot coffee)
1 tbsp coffee liqueur (optional)
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
until the chocolate melts and the coffee granules are dissolved.
Add wet mix to dry and fold gently.
In the end, add
2 tbsp white or apple cider vinegar
the batter will turn foamy. Mix gently without deflating too much, and pour into muffin cups (we got 15 muffins), or into a greased cake pan lined with parchment.
For muffins, bake for around 15 minutes, for a cake 25-30 minutes. Test with a toothpick to see if it comes out clean.
Legume Frosting:
3 ounces chopped dark chocolate
1/2 cup organic peanut butter
2 tablespoons raw cane sugar (or more)
2 tsps coffee liqueur (optional)
1/4 cup hot soymilk or water
Mix everything together until blended to a smooth paste. If it is runny, refrigerate until it thickens a bit.
Cool the cupcakes and frost.
Mansi dikra,
Though you forgot to mention it in your list of vital foods, we’re sure you acknowledge that Chocolate is the fifth food group. These oversights happen to the best of us. 
Vegan Antioxidant Veggie and Legume Cupcakes are our entry for your Balanced Breakfast event.
We made a huge batch, and some of them are headed to HomeMadeS for the Spectacular Cupcakes 2008
Much love,
Bee and Jai 
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40 Comments so far
Hey! Who ate that first one already? 
Yummy cup cakes! 
Hahhaa…I have such loving and toing parents in Bee and Jai! 
thank you so much for advocating the goodness of chocolate:) jokes apart, these cupcakes rock!! can you actually parcel some to me so I can vouch about them being “balanced”??
oh, they’re balanced alright. they don’t topple over. 
- b.
I then drool 
and then, I realise that I want some 
so 
oops!!didn’t want to use that bruised icon…that’s what happens when you try to be too smart
Kya balance hain!!
The ‘not too chocolately’ part was for people who don’t enjoy chocolate…yes such people do exist.
It’s . Who wouldn’t those cupcakes? So u make em and then people eat them. Where’s yours?
The chocolate icing and the chocolate on the bottom is too much. 
Maybe the icing can be vanilla. Not all that chocolate. 
That’ll make me goooooooo cupcakes!
i 
with sunita.
No wonder why there is already one been vanished 
Is there still any leftover? I drool
Oh my, where do you find such healthy recipes?! I sure couldn’t think this healthy…I’m an outright unhealthy glutton Cupcakes are
Ok, I’m staking ownership of those cupcake right *now*.
I’ll just sit here and wait while you 2 monkeys can rush to the post office and mail me a batch
you are an eternal optimist, aren’t ya?
The frosting is worth
Bee dikra, that was a good pacifying post! 
Now i can eat whole cup cake that too chocolate ..and that too with chocolate frosting ….and that too without even thinking about it next day in gym..
by the way i tried out the whole wheat bagels…..it turned out very well except it got burned a little bit …i should have checked them often …..i really admire the way u have shaped the bagels …like u said “it really needs practice”..it hell needs some kind of work….
SLURPPPPPPPPPPP! There’s nothing like excess chocolate :-D
sinful breakfast is more like it
Well, so much for the “we don’t like sweet stuff for breakfast” statement a few posts back! Looks yummy!!!
Who said that we ate it for breakfast. ..I wouldn’t touch anything like this with a barge pole at breakfast time. Afternoon snack with tea/coffee - for sure. unique take on “balanced breakfast” by b. I was going to put a comment when I saw this post….but you beat me to it! - j
darn guys you you… i tell ya something chocolate is not good for your health any more .. 
so my advise would be to make these and parcel us… 
Cakes are contagious enough to change our health dogmas! . 
A humble one to the text in the posts Rocking pics n worthy cakes!! angelic couple!
I think I should print this post and frame it in the kitchen. Coz every time I make something with chocolate I will not have a little tiny guilty feeling nagging at the back of my head. Those cupcakes look good enough to dive into!
That is so chocolatey!
That’s great! An “instant classic” post. Plus, they actually look good.
These are great. Love chocolate and peanut butter (make my own). Never knew chocolate and peanut butter were vegetables, but one learns something new everyday!:D
Legume frosting or not, this is my kinda cake.
have u tried jaden’s negetive calorie cake?????
excuse excuse for eating chocolate
Never done a vegan cake. Should try it once ans surprise my canivorous hubby and daughter.
I’ve just licked my computer screen to death! 
How much for a dozen of these?
frosting looks soooo yummy bee
Can you adopt me please ..You have been making such yummy recipes !!!..I wish i could taste one of them!!!!
Are you sure these are healthy? Only by watching them I think I gainned some weight!!! They look sinful … I wish I could eat a couple right now!!!!!!
One for the post and one for all the comments. Glad to see that they aren’t many ‘too chocolatey’ believers here. A few weeks back Food TV had a chocolate week or something, my frnd and I watched two episodes and were craving something chocolate asap and so made a batch of chocolate chip cookies at 10 in the night (it was a week day by the way )
These look so good that I can’t believe that they are actually good for you - how often does that happen?
No such thing as “too chocolatey!” These look fantastic!
i’m going to count the number of sadistic posts you guys are putting up to tantalise and inflict pain on this blogging audience…..err can i have a dozen of those please??
I adore the combo! I’ve had a peanut butter and chocolate gooey cookie - now that was heaven indeed!
oh they look moist, savoury with peanut butter, and chocolatey at the same time! too bad they’re not sent for Cupcakes Spectacular 2008 hehehe
What an idea bee…they look gr8..sure will taste too.
This is a fantastic recipe. I can’t get enough of the frosting. Thanks for sharing it.
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I grew up in the midst of sugarcane, and I still can’t say that I know what may be the cane FRUIT, but I am willing to accept your word in the interests of chocolate nutrition and these yummy cakes.