Hi friends! Today I’m taking a break from serious science-based content to share a fun recipe: vegan German chocolate cake cupcakes. Or, more realistically, my interpretation of German chocolate cake in cupcake form.
A brief background to how this recipe came to be: when I was little, I loved to bake. I would try to recreate things that were familiar to me, or try to put my own spin on a classic treat.

When I first set out to make German chocolate cake (I was probably in middle school at that point), I decided to just make what I had remembered German chocolate cake to be: moist chocolate cake with a coconut pecan frosting.
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