Firstly, Sunday Browsing will be back soon; drooling over Etsy finds had to go on hold for a bit when my laptop starting acting out, and I had to buy a new laptop (which also meant my virtual shopping mojo was drained by having to do actual shopping *G*)

Secondly, I have quite a haul of polymer clay beads ready to put up, but they are waiting to be photographed in something other than British November light (the greyest, dullest light of all). So, as an offering instead, I present my simple but yummy vegan cupcake recipe. Some of the measurements are based loosely on a plain cake recipe in the Australian Woman Weekly's cake book (I know, random right?) but I played about with it to make it vegan.

Ingredients:
125g soy margarine
150g granulated sugar
250g organic self-raising flour
1 to 2 Alpro Soya Vanilla Puddings
50ml Rice/Oat/Soy/Coconut milk

1). Cream the sugar and margarine together until it's light and fluffy, and a little paler.
2). Empty out one vanilla pudding serving into another bowl, add a splash of the 'milk', and whip with an electric mixer; this makes the cake a little airer.
3). Add the sifted flour and the pudding mixture to the sugar/margarine base, alternating between the two.
4). Fold the batter together gently, and if the mixture is too stiff, add a little more pudding or milk until it loosens.
5). Add your desired flavourings; vanilla extract, lemon juice and rind, or a little reduced fruit juice (e.g. stir some raspberries and sugar over a low heat until it thickens and becomes a syrup)
6). Spoon the cake batter into paper cake cases/silicone moulds and bake at 180 degrees centigrade for 20 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven, leave to rest for 5 minutes, then transfer to a baking rack to cool.

For icing, I generally make the old staple, buttercream, but obviously substitute the butter for soy margarine, and make sure the icing sugar is vegan.

Shopping info: Vegan icing sugar can be bought from http://www.steenbergs.co.uk/ or http://www.sumamarket.coop/ but the brand is quite widely available. These stores also carry a lot of other vegan baking supplies (although not everything is vegan, so check first).