Streusel Cup cakes:

Streusel Cup cakes:  

This is something that I am trying and I love it because it has the texture and layers of a coffee cake.  

Cupcake ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup  vegan butter substitute, softened
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 cup vanilla milk sub (SIlk, soy, almond milk...ect)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar

Streusel ingredients:

• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• pinch of sea salt
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1 tablespoon melted Earth Balance or vegan butter substitute

Glaze (Optional):

• 1 1/2 cups vegan confectioners’ sugar (Powdered sugar)
• 2 1/2 tablespoons vanilla milk sub
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon melted vegan butter substitute

Cupcakes:

Preheat oven at 325 degrees F.  

  

Mix all of the dry ingredients together in one bowl while using a hand mixer to combine the wet ingredients   

Once you go to combine dry and wet ingredients make sure that your streusel is made and ready to go.  You want to get the cup cakes into the oven as fast as you can once they are combine and creamy.  

Streusel:  

In small bowl combine and mix all of the ingredients together making sure that there are no clumps of butter.  

Fill cup cake liners in pan halfway with cupcake mix.  Add in the stresuel making sure it is a light layer and not too high before filling the cupcake liners up the rest of the way with the remaining cupcake batter.  

Use remaining streusel to sprinkle over the top if desired. Place in the heated oven for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick can be inserted and than pulled out relatively clean.   

While cup cakes are cooking whisk together the ingredients for your glaze and drizzle on top of cakes with a spoon.  If you want to make a more intricate design on top (Checkers ect) put into a baggie and cut off small corner to drizzle into a pattern.