Vegan Chocolate Pomegranate Cupcakes

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These Vegan Carrot Chocolate Cupcakes are super moist, full of flavour and slathered with a delicious chocolate ganache on top.

Fasting for Easter was not something we were looking forward to when we were young maybe because the older generation used to cook  the same Lenten dishes, over and over again, mostly dried legumes and seasonal vegetables.

Now you can find all sorts of fresh or frozen vegetables year round and you have cookbooks, food magazines, T.V. shows and of course the internet to refer to if you are looking for something to cook.

Cakes were out of the question during lent because people did not have the knowledge how to make them.  They just followed some vegan recipes they knew and could not understand why they were using eggs and milk or butter and with what they could substitute these ingredients.

I wanted to make a milkless and eggless chocolate cake and I had some fruit which needed to be used so I originally thought of using the pears, a banana and an orange but the pears were too ripe so I couldn’t use them.

However, reading so many recipes every day I learn a little bit here and a little bit there, so making a banana bread with just one banana and no butter, no milk and no eggs seemed out of the question, so I decided to combine a Lenten carrot cake and a chocolate cake I make and make a new recipe.

I wanted the cake to be dark so I preferred to use dark brown sugar and cocoa and since the orange juice was not enough, I decided to substitute the remaining orange juice with pomegranate molasses/syrup which would give the extra acidity needed for the baking soda and baking powder to react.

 

I have fallen in love with this syrup although I have only recently started using it.

Actually since then, I am making my own Pomegranate syrup and molasses and I have been using it in salads and for marinades, in cakes etc.

I am not afraid to experiment and since I wanted to try it, I decided to use it. 

I am glad that I did, as the cupcakes had a lovely sweet and sour taste which gave them a distinct flavour and made them very addictive.

 
Check out some other vegan cakes and desserts I have made:

Vegan Chocolate cake

Vegan Carrot cake

Vegan Coconut Mandarin Samali

Vegan Halvas

Vegan, lactose free and gluten free Ryzogal (rice pudding)

 

I am sending this recipe to Pourmina of Tasty Treats for her event For the Love of Chocolate.

On another note, tomorrow is a Public Holiday in Greece and my daughter’s name day (onomastiki eorti).  

It’s a tradition to eat Bakaliaros and Skordalia on that day as it is one of the two days during Lent, when fish is allowed to be eaten. 

Tomorrow is both a religious holiday, the Annunciation of Virgin Mary, which is called Evangelismos in Greek and it’s the name day for Evangelos and Evangelia (Elia), and a National Holiday, as on this day we also celebrate the Greek Independence Day.

Chronia Polla.

 

Kopiaste and Kali Orexi!

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