Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake

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It was horrible! Bland. Taste like play dough. Dry like brick.And don't add the 1/4 cup of water to the frosting mix; it turns to watery substance. The chocolate was watered down. It was not the recipe for a rich chocolate dessert. It was a formula for disaster. Poorly constructed!! I hated them!! Wasted time and money!!! This was supposed to be my valentines day dessert and we whound up with nothing but a dirty kitchen and some dry, bland cupcakes with no icing.

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Great recipe. Very easy to make and tasted great. I didn't have any problems with the frosting..I might prefer whipped cream over this frosting for this particular cupcake, but I think I will be using this frosting recipe for other cupcakes. :

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Well I was totally surprised how easy it was and great tasting. I belong to a Club and we had our Cupcake Wars and I won.
Thank You So Much For Not Only Recipe but the Picture as well. I won both in Presentation and Taste.
Yeah Me and Yeah To Food Network.

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Taste was great! I made this for a friend who does not eat any dairy. First of all they did not rise enough to have tops that I could cut off, so i just put a strawberry slice on top, piped out my icing and topped with another strawberry. Presentation was adorable. Also since I used coconut oil for my icing it was hard to find a good temperature that would both pipe easily but not simle melt all over the cakes at room temperature. But they were a hit anyway at the party!

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This recipe is delicious! I liked these cupcakes better than ones made with eggs and dairy. Didn't use the frosting based on the reviews...but the batter and combo with the strawberries was a bit hit at our party!

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This recipe for the cake was very easy to make and was very good. But i have to give it four stars although I almost gave it three stars because the frosting recipe was horrible and completely watered down and the ingredients did not mix well at all. I had to run back to the store to redo the frosting again however this time I got it off another website which turned out to be really good.
I probably would make it again but try out a different frosting.

*** If you do decide to make this cupcake i strongly suggest you do not follow the frosting recipe***

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I think this recipie was awsome! The cake its self was amazing but the frosting did'nt tern out the way i hoped! The frosting looked watered down and looked bad but i think it was just the way i put it together. This recipie was awsome i will make this again and next time, do it right!!!!

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For the first time in my whole life I decided to bake cupcake from scratch and tried this recipe. NO REGRETS! this is GOLD :D I super love the cake. I changed the frosting though but it's still super good loved this!

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I'm a professional baker and I'll say this recipe is ingenious. I expected a chocolate muffin since this cake is made with the muffin method, what I got was a light fluffy cake--without egg-foam! This is no doubt due to the huge amount of vinegar in it. Lots of vinegar=lots of air. Cleverly, this makes it so that eggs would probably make the batter too dense. I think coconut milk tastes better than regular milk as well, so that probably works in its favor. The baking time is way off, at least in my opinion. 20 minutes got my cupcakes up to 210 degrees, which is about the perfect temperature for most cupcakes. I think 5 more minutes would have made them too dry. Note that in a 350 degree oven, most cakes will pass a toothpick test at about 195 degrees. Forget vegan frosting though. This goes well with an ultra-fluffy Sweetex based buttercream mixed for 30 minutes. I'm going to try this recipe again, but with egg-foam folded in at the end--I'm interested in what will happen.

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slight confession: while i stuck with the original recipe for the cake, i veered slightly for the frosting.

the cake itself, is awesome (and i normally am NOT a chocolate fan. it is moist and fluffy! for those fearing the coconut milk, don't. you can't taste it in the final, baked product (though you can taste it in the batter. i used canned because- frankly- i'm bringing these to a party for people i dont know well and didn't want to throw down a ton of money for fresh coconut milk. i would used canned again because theyre delicious.

i also added chopped strawberries to the frosting- for funsies. so while i can't speak to the frosting, the cake will win over non-vegans and make vegans swoon.