Having spent a large proportion of my Sunday looking online at bakery porn, when I got home I just had to do some cakes, with the aim of practising doing some piping with a new nozzle I recently purchased. I chose the basic chocolate cupcakes out of my favourite vegan cake book, VCTOTW - as I had no soya milk I had to substitute oat milk. This came out ok but didn't curdle in the same way the soy does.
But it seems to have done the trick -the cupcakes came out beautifully soft and light.
Unfortunately I hadn't the proper ingredients for the book's vegan buttercream recipe as I had no vegetable shortening, and it wasn't available at the only shop open at 9pm on a Sunday. I made my own mocha buttercream out of margarine, cocoa, espresso powder, and icing sugar.
The icing tasted really good. However without the shortening the icing was just too soft and didn't hold its shape well enough - the first couple of cakes came out ok but as the icing warmed up the piping lost its shape and the results were disappointing.
Conclusion: more cupcakes to be baked next weekend to ensure a proper piping session.
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