While I am working on my pipe-work for Christmas cake baking, you guys get the foolproof recipe for vegan butter-creme.
Ingredients:
makes for 12 cupcakes, or one cake. Not a layered cake!
250 ml soy milk (I use the small ready to drink vanilla kind)
1 pack pudding mix vanilla
100 g margarine (vegan)
powdered sugar (ca 70g or more to taste)
Prepare the pudding mix and set aside to cool. (I do that before I start making the batter for the cupcakes).
Whisk powdered sugar, margarine and cool pudding (it will look a bit strange and be very firm, but that's good!) in a bowl until you have a smooth, soft butter-creme. Put on cold cupcakes.
You can add all kinds of things to this basic recipe to make it a different flavour. Like nuts, melted chocolate, jam (raspberry!), coffee, cinnamon (delicious with apple cupcakes) or rum/whisky.
Can you tell baking is one of my favourite things?
Edit: leftovers can be stored up to one week in the fridge and up to 3 months in the freezer.