Chocolate Orange Cupcakes- Vegan!

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 3/4 cup dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 2/3 cup prune, pureed
• 1 tablespoon stevia
• 1 cup soymilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 tablespoon orange extract
• 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 2 tablespoons finely grated orange peel

Recipe

• 1 melt the chocolate in the microwave (1 minutes high heat) or my preferred way - a makeshift double broiler (boil some water in a small sauce pot, put a small saute pan over the sauce pot, lower heat, add chocolate, stir occasionally with a plastic spatula until melted ), let cool.
• 2 sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cocoa, set aside.
• 3 whisk together wet ingredients (prunes through orange extract) until foamy, add orange peel. add wet ingredients to dry and combine. fold in melted chocolate.
• 4 line 16 (or possibly more) muffin tins with cupcake liner. pour batter in, filling cup 3/4 of the way.
• 5 bake at 350 20-25 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.