Mango-Cardamom Vegan Cupcakes!

Since I had mango puree left over from yesterday, I wanted to use it up. And since I wanted to make eggless cupcakes, and I had a recipe for vegan eggless cupcakes, I just had to make this recipe! However, since I'm not vegan and I do eat milk products (milk, cheese, yogurt - otherwise known as a lacto-vegetarian) I did substitute the vegan ingredients with my lacto-ones.

This is one of the simplest cupcake recipies I have come across! And from the original recipe, I did not follow the all the ingredients for the Mango Buttercream frosting, and changed it a little. However, the original recipe is here

Cupcake Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups mango puree
• ½ cup bakers sugar
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cardamom powder
• a pinch of salt salt

Mango Buttercream Ingredients

• 1 stick of butter (vegan or vegetarian)
• 2 tbsp canola oil
• 1/3 cup mango puree (more or less)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar

Cupcake Method

1. Switch on the oven to 350F
2. Have 12 cupcake cases, or a 12-pan cupcake/muffin pan (greased) ready. (Or, as I did , place the cupcake cases in the muffin pan. This stops the cupcakes from spreading out!)
3. Mix the mango puree, bakers sugar, canola oil and vanilla well. This becomes the "wet mix"
4. Sift the flour, baking powder, cardamom powder and salt. This becomes the "dry mix"
5. Gradually, add the dry mix to the wet mix, and mix in well.
6. Pour the batter evenly into each cupcase case (or pan hole!) If you use an ice cream scoop, it is easier.
7. Bake in the oven for 27-30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
8. Allow to cool

Mango Buttercream Method

1. Mix the butter, canola oil and mango puree and vanilla extract together until well blended
2. Add the confectioners sugar, cup by cup, blend, scrape down, add another cup
3. If your mixture is too runny, you may need to add more sugar
4. Once mixture is thick (leaves peaks) and the cupcakes are cool, decorate the cupcake.

I sprinkled some colored sugar over the cupcakes. The taste of the cupcakes remind me of the Gujarati dish Mango Srikhand. Absolutely tasteful!