My favorite love affair: peanut butter and chocolate.

Peanut Butter is so mouthstickingly fantastic by itself, and chocolate is so sinfully decadent, but together?

Together, a match so beautiful it would make a Greek god jealous.  The combination is sticky, melty, gooey, and so sweet…

Ok, i’m over the romance!  On to the edible part!  These cupcakes are vegan again!  The chocolate cupcakes are really light, so they go perfectly with the heavier peanut butter frosting.  Once again, I liked these much better than some other nonvegan chocolate cupcakes I’ve made before.  The peanut butter frosting really makes the cake.  Its so good!  I could just eat the frosting… but the frosting and the cake combined together just takes the already fabulous frosting to a whole new level.

Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes (I can’t remember where I found this recipe; I just have a printout)

1c soymilk mixed with 1 tsp white rice vinegar (set aside for 10 minutes to make “buttermilk”)

3/4 c granulated sugar

1/3 c oil

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 c all-purpose flour

1/3 c cocoa

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

Preheat ovent to 350 degrees and line a 12-cup cupcake pan with liners.  Add the “buttermilk”, sugar, oil, vanilla, and beat until foamy.  Sift together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl.  Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and combine until there are no lumps left.  Fill liners with batter.  Bake 15 – 18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Generic Peanut Butter Frosting

1/2 c peanut butter

1/4 c margarine

1/2 c powdered sugar

1 tbsp soymilk

Combine all ingredients until desired consistency.

 As long as we’re on the subject of love affairs, here’s a gorgeous poem from the new Harold & Kumar movie. 

“The Square Root of Three” by David Feinberg

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

 Isn’t it clever?!

photos courtesy of JanJann and BonBOn.