My Way To Decadent Vegan Afternoon.

So after a failed attempt at attending a Moksha yoga class today, thank you holiday bus schedule, i was feeling the urge to do something equally fabulous. with a house warming party to attend tonight i thought i might whip something up to take with us. of course all the stores are closed for the holiday so i was going to have to make do with what i had, i.e. no easy peasy store bought pre-made anything.
i usually have certain basic ingredients around the house so i figured i probably had what i needed to make a cake from scratch, i found this incredibly easy, and very limited ingredient vegan chocolate cake mix recipe on allrecipes.com  which seemed to be fairly well reviewed. it has no eggs (or egg replacement), and no dairy or soy milk.

they looked pretty good when they came out of the oven. i expected them not to rise too much, and that they would be a bit denser, and i think i was right on the money.

then i got a bit carried away with myself and made this vegan buttercream frosting.
and finally i did some two tone colouring by dying my icing a tad yellow and then painting red food colouring on the inside of my pastry bag before spooning the icing into it and piping it onto the cup cakes.
then i added shredded coconut.
they turned out like this.

 to be honest i'm still not at all sure how they taste, but i hope it's as good as they look.