Vegan Vampire Cupcakes

Halloween can be a more difficult holiday than others if you’re vegan. All around us, there’s milk chocolate, caramel, and other non-vegan treats. But you can prepare yourself with tasty treats made at home!

Vampire Bite Vegan Cupcakes

Vampire bite cupcakes are perfect for Halloween or watching your favourite scary movies! These cupcakes are filled with strawberry jam to scare everyone that takes a bite. 

These vampire cupcakes are an ode to beloved vampires. Keep simple and only did little bite marks – I feel they’re almost scarier that way. People will wonder, what’s that inside the cupcakes?

Blood? Nah, it’s just strawberry jam. Strawberry Chia Jam is in the middle of these vampire cupcakes and when you take a bite, all the strawberry goodness comes out too! Using chia jam rather than store-bought brands will take the high fructose corn syrup out of this recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 c almond or other non-dairy milk
• 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 1 1/2 c all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 c white sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/3 c vegetable oil
• 1/4 - 1/2 c strawberry jam (or store-bought brand)
• Vegan vanilla icing of choice

Instructions

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees F
2. Combine milk and apple cider vinegar, put to the side and let sit.
3. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, & salt.
4. In a separate bowl mix sugar, vanilla, and oil.
5. Add all the ingredients together and whisk until smooth.
6. Bake cupcakes for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
7. After cupcakes have cooled, cut a little hole at the top of each, add a teaspoon of jam into the hole and place the top part of the cupcake back on top.
8. Ice the cupcakes.
9. Take a straw and poke 2 holes at the top of the cupcakes.
10. Mix a tiny bit of water with some jam so it's more fluid, then drip jam out of holes to look like blood.