Vegan Rose Cupcakes with White Chocolate Ganache Filling
These vegan rose cupcakes with white chocolate ganache filling make the perfect Mother's Day gift! Soft, fluffy and stuffed with silky smooth white chocolate ganache.
Place a small saucepan over medium heat and add an inch of water. Bring to the boil then reduce the heat to low.
Place the chopped white chocolate, coconut milk and vanilla in a heatproof bowl and sit on top of the simmering water in the saucepan, making sure the water doesn’t touch the bottom of the bowl.
110 g vegan white chocolate, 145 ml coconut milk, ½ teaspoon vanilla bean paste
Stir constantly until the white chocolate is fully melted. Remove the bowl from the heat.
Use an immersion blender to blend the mixture until completely smooth.
Place a piece of heat-proof plastic wrap over the ganache and press down carefully onto the surface to prevent it from forming a skin. Leave to cool to room temperature fully for at least 2 hours.
To Make the Cupcakes
Preheat the oven to 170 °C (fan). Line a 12-hole cupcake tin with liners.
Place the plant milk, vegan yoghurt, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, white wine vinegar, rose water and pink or red food dye in a medium bowl and whisk until smooth. Set aside.
125 ml plant milk, 75 g vegan yoghurt, 50 ml vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar, 2 teaspoon rose water, ⅛ teaspoon pink or red food dye
In a large bowl, sieve then whisk together the cake flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
180 g cake flour, 140 g caster sugar, 1 ¼ teaspoon baking powder, ⅛ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until just smooth.
Divide the cake batter evenly between the cupcake cases and bake for 16 minutes or until risen and domed. Do not let the cakes brown.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool fully on a wire cooling rack.
Once cooled, use an apple corer to remove the centre of each cupcake. Do not poke a hole right through to the bottom, just go about ¾ of the way down.
Transfer the white chocolate ganache to a piping bag and fill the hole of each cupcake.
While the frosting is still in the mixing bowl, add the rose water and beat to combine. Remove half of the frosting from the bowl and add the food colouring. Whip until evenly pink in colour.
2 teaspoon rose water, ⅛ teaspoon pink food colouring
Transfer the pink and white frosting to two separate piping bags without nozzles and snip off the end ½ inch. Take a third piping bag and fit a wide star tip nozzle. Insert the two filled piping bags into the third.
To Decorate
Once the cakes are cool, pipe a rose on the top of each cupcake, starting in the centre then swirling out and round in a circle.
Repeat with the remaining cupcakes until all decorated. Store in a container at room temperature if consuming that day. Alternatively, store in a container in the fridge for up to 3 days. Remove from the fridge an hour before serving to come to room temperature.
Notes
Note: The nutrition data listed above do not include the buttercream frosting. Since this is a separate recipe on my website, the nutrition data for this part of the recipe can be found under the buttercream frosting recipe.