My Sweetest Things

I love to bake. I love the entire process from picking out the recipe, mixing, measuring and the taste testing! A friend of mine had a birthday this week which called for cake. I have lot’s of yummy cake recipes but this cake would have to be dairy free. Lactose intolerant friend = NO BUTTER. What?? is that possible? No milk, no sour cream?! Nope. Sorry butter but I will save you for another day. I began my search for dairy free recipes and came across a chocolate cake on allrecipes that had many great reviews. I was hopeful so I began gathering all the ingredients. I decided on cupcakes instead of cake so that way I could taste test to make sure it was truly as good as I had read it was. Let me say it was delicious! Really. I am serious about chocolate cake and if you don’t tell anyone what’s missing, they would never know. I did make a few changes to the recipe. I saw it called for distilled white vinegar. What? I am not a fan of that smell. Turns out I did not have white vinegar so I substituted apple-cider vinegar and hoped for the best. It calls for two cups sugar but I used 1 cup sugar and 1 cup brown sugar. I wanted to make sure it was chocolately so I heaped those tablespoons of cocoa and added 1/2 teaspoon more vanilla.  It’s delish and super moist!

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