Monday Munchies: Chai Cupcakes with Honey icing!

Hello everyone! Monday is here to start another week, and to start it right, I'm bringing one of the promised recipes from my b-day foods for this week's Monday Munchies!

This recipe is a mix between the Chai Latte cupcakes from the "Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World" book and the icing is from a recipe from a new blog I've discovered: Carrot Cake!

Chai Cupcakes with Honey icing

Makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredients:

- 225 ml soy or rice milk

- 4 black tea bags or 2 tablespoon loose tea

- 50 ml canola oil (I used olive oil)

- 125 ml vanilla or plain soy yogurt (I used plain)

- 175 mg granulated sugar

- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

- 300 mg all-purpose flour

- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom

- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

- 1/4 ground cloves

- Pinch of ground black or white pepper

Method:

- Preheat oven to 180ºC and line cupcake pan with cupcake cases.

- Heat soy milk in a small saucepan over medium till almost boiling. Add tea bags, cover, and remove from heat. Let sit for 10 minutes. Then dunk teabags a few times in the milk and squeeze gently to extract any soy milk before removing, and discard the tea bags. Measure the milk & tea mixture and add more milk if it's less than 225 ml.

- In a large bowl, whisk together oil, yogurt, sugar, vanilla and milk & tea mixture till all yogurt lumps disappear. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves and pepper into wet ingredients. Mix until large lumps disappear; some small lumps are ok.

- Fill cases full and bake for about 20 to 22 minutes until a toothpick come out clean.

Honey icing

Ingredients:

- 100 gr room temperature unsalted butter

- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

- 5 tablespoons honey

- 5 tablespoons icing sugar

Method:

- In a bowl mix together butter with sugar, honey and vanilla extract till we have a thick cream. If done by hand, it'll take longer and the consistency won't be as great as if done in a KitchenAid (for example) but it'll look good enough.

- I used the Wilton 2D tip, that makes those pretty roses without much effort at all!

I just can't wait to keep baking, and to learn loads in the couse I will be making in November with Alma from Alma's Cupcakes & Objetivo: Cupcake Perfecto!!