Healthy Hostess Cupcakes |
Although the recipe calls for 1 tablespoon frosting for the filling, you won’t be blamed for upping the amount a bit—just be reasonable! Too much and you’ll bury the delicious cake. Makes 24 cupcakes.
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- 1 cup garbanzo–fava bean flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup potato starch
- ¼ cup arrowroot
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp xanthan gum
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 cup coconut oil
- 1½ cups agave nectar
- 1 cup homemade applesauce or store bought unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup hot water
- vanilla frosting
- chocolate frosting
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line 2 standard 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, cocoa powder, potato starch, arrowroot, baking powder, baking soda, xanthan gum, and salt.
3. Add the oil, agave nectar, applesauce, and vanilla to the dry ingredients. Stir until you have a thick batter. Pour in the hot water and continue mixing until the batter is smooth.
4. Pour 1⁄3 cup batter into each prepared cup, almost filling it. Bake the cupcakes on the center rack for 24 minutes, rotating the tins 180 degrees after 14 minutes. The finished cupcakes will bounce back when pressure is applied gently to the center, and a toothpick inserted in the center will come out clean.
5. Let the cupcakes stand in the tins for 20 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack and cool completely.
6. Cut each cupcake horizontally in the center. Using a frosting knife, spread 1 tablespoon vanilla frosting on the bottom layer and set the top of the cupcake back on it.
7. Frost the top of the cupcake with another tablespoon of the vanilla frosting. (For an extra pretty cupcake, fill a pastry bag with chocolate frosting and pipe chocolate curlicues onto each cupcake.)
8. Store the cupcakes in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Excerpted from BabyCakes by Erin McKenna. Copyright © 2009 by Clarkson Potter. Excerpted by permission of Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House of Canada Limited.
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Wanda Huff | May 3, 2012 at 10:59 am - §
I love all these alternative recipes but it is unfortunate that I can never try them as ingredients used are not easily found if you don't live in a big city where there are multiple grocery stores and specialty stores. Would love it if you could start printing recipes that are friendly to ALL areas, especially the north. Agave nectar? Xanthum gum? Garbanzo fava bean flour?