A family member has asked me to try to do a Gluten Free Cake recipe, well, here you go!
So many people are coeliac or have gluten intolerance, so this recipe is for those people. At least now, you will not be left out of my cupcakey treats.
I have baked a few different cakes recently, chocolate, vanilla, rose, but I have not made Lemon for sometime, and I thought it might make a yummy change.
This recipe would yeild about 12 small cupcakes, but only made 7 muffin sized cakes for me.
100g Unsalted Butter (leave out for half an hour before you start to bake to soften)
100g Caster Sugar
1 tsp Lemon Extract, or you can use zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
2 eggs
100g Gluten Free Rice / Potato Starch flour (I tried Asda's Plain Gluten Free Flour)
1 tsp Gluten Free Baking Powder (I used Doves Farm)
Preheat the oven to 175C
Cream the butter and sugar in a mixer or with an electric whisk for 10 minutes or until light in colour, and fluffy.
Add the Lemon Extract or Zest and stir in to combine.
Slowly add the eggs until the mix is glossy and not curdled. If it does curdle, add a tablespoon of the weighed flour.
Fold in the flour, ideally using a metal spoon, but I am lazy and I slowly mix in the Kenwood Chef, and it turns out fine.
Use an icecream scoop to fill the cupcake cases.
Bake for 10 -12 for fairy cake size, 20 for cupcake size and 25 for muffin size cases.
They are ready when the tops spring back when pressed.
Enjoy!!
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Thursday 8 March 2012
Chocolate, coconut, Malteser Cupcakes
I love, love, love Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, who doesn't, right? A while back I popped to the supermarket and it was on 2 for 1, get-in! I went straight for the Phish Food, C'mon, don't pretend its not your favourite, and while looking in the freezer, I was like, OMG a new flavour - Coconutterly Fair, what is this? Anyway, it was calling out to me to buy it - please buy me it said, so well I did as I was told and a new love affair was born.
I have been loving this chocolately, coconutty yummyness since I first saw it, but I can't help but think that it is really not good for me. So I have been avoiding the freezer section when I go shopping, to save the tempation of buying it. We all know that Ben and Jerry's doesn't last long in a home freezer. Something to do with them being incompatible? Well anyway, it means they MUST be eaten very quickly. Well ok, maybe there is nothing incompatible, but I wouldn't know as I can't leave it there for long. See, it calls me even then. I tell you, it just annoys me with all of that calling!
Anyway, it has been a few months since my last Coconutterly Fair experience, and I had a 'Eureka Moment'. What about a Coconutterly Fair cake? Well I can't call it that obviously, so it has been named, 'Chocolate, Coconut Malteser Cupcakes.'
So if you have never had Coconutterly Fair, then you need to know that it is chocolate, coconut and crunchy bits, which are a bit like maltesers.
So here is the recipe:
55g Cocoa Powder
240ml Boiling Water
150g Coconoil - Coconut Oil (this is a solid at room temp)
200g Caster Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Extract (not essence)
2 Large Eggs
200g Plain Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
Pack of Maltesers
Mix the cocoa into the boiling water until its all dissolved and leave for 20 mins.
Preheat oven to 175 degrees C or 350 F
Cream the coconut oil and sugar together either in a mixer, with hand held whisk or with a wooden spoon, until fluffy.
Add the Vanilla and mix.
Add the eggs, one at a time and mixing well after each addition.
Sift in the flour and baking powder and gently stir in.
Slowly pour the cocoa and water mixture into the bowl gently stirring until it is all incorporated.
Fill 12 - 15 cupcake cases with the mixture, add maltesers (whole or chopped, your choice) and bake for 20 mins until skewer comes out clean.
Voila - yummy cupcakes!
Top with your favourite frosting / buttercream and you will have super yummy cupcakes sure to impress!!
I hope you like them, if you try them, please let me know.
I have been loving this chocolately, coconutty yummyness since I first saw it, but I can't help but think that it is really not good for me. So I have been avoiding the freezer section when I go shopping, to save the tempation of buying it. We all know that Ben and Jerry's doesn't last long in a home freezer. Something to do with them being incompatible? Well anyway, it means they MUST be eaten very quickly. Well ok, maybe there is nothing incompatible, but I wouldn't know as I can't leave it there for long. See, it calls me even then. I tell you, it just annoys me with all of that calling!
Anyway, it has been a few months since my last Coconutterly Fair experience, and I had a 'Eureka Moment'. What about a Coconutterly Fair cake? Well I can't call it that obviously, so it has been named, 'Chocolate, Coconut Malteser Cupcakes.'
So if you have never had Coconutterly Fair, then you need to know that it is chocolate, coconut and crunchy bits, which are a bit like maltesers.
55g Cocoa Powder
240ml Boiling Water
150g Coconoil - Coconut Oil (this is a solid at room temp)
200g Caster Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Extract (not essence)
2 Large Eggs
200g Plain Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
Pack of Maltesers
Mix the cocoa into the boiling water until its all dissolved and leave for 20 mins.
Preheat oven to 175 degrees C or 350 F
Cream the coconut oil and sugar together either in a mixer, with hand held whisk or with a wooden spoon, until fluffy.
Add the Vanilla and mix.
Add the eggs, one at a time and mixing well after each addition.
Sift in the flour and baking powder and gently stir in.
Slowly pour the cocoa and water mixture into the bowl gently stirring until it is all incorporated.
Fill 12 - 15 cupcake cases with the mixture, add maltesers (whole or chopped, your choice) and bake for 20 mins until skewer comes out clean.
Voila - yummy cupcakes!
Top with your favourite frosting / buttercream and you will have super yummy cupcakes sure to impress!!
I hope you like them, if you try them, please let me know.
Sunday 15 January 2012
My new Blog
I was thinking, that my new years resolution could be to write a blog about my baking adventures. I was thinking, "why not?". So here we are. I know its not exactly that close to the new year anymore, but that's procrastination and a flare up for you he he.
I think for my first post I would like to mention the spritz cookies that we made on Christmas Eve. It was the first time that I had ever used my cookie press (I didn't have much faith that it would work actually), but boy was I impressed.
I have the Wilton one and I just followed the recipe on the box (as I was being lazy) although I added a bit of almond extract to it. And as I was baking them with little Freddie (my 5 year old son), it meant that he got to shoot cookies out of a gun! He was a cookie cowboy! We used some home-made coloured sugar to sprinkle some before they went in the oven. We even coloured some of the dough green to make green trees. I was in my element, and Santa was mighty impressed. He took about 20 home with him. I bet he was glad about the milk to wash it down with. Although we didn't tell him that the cats had drank some of it ooooops.
Unfortunatley I didn't do many pics on my iPhone that day. I think I will be making some again soon, so I will make sure I take plenty of pics.
Natalie.x
I think for my first post I would like to mention the spritz cookies that we made on Christmas Eve. It was the first time that I had ever used my cookie press (I didn't have much faith that it would work actually), but boy was I impressed.
I have the Wilton one and I just followed the recipe on the box (as I was being lazy) although I added a bit of almond extract to it. And as I was baking them with little Freddie (my 5 year old son), it meant that he got to shoot cookies out of a gun! He was a cookie cowboy! We used some home-made coloured sugar to sprinkle some before they went in the oven. We even coloured some of the dough green to make green trees. I was in my element, and Santa was mighty impressed. He took about 20 home with him. I bet he was glad about the milk to wash it down with. Although we didn't tell him that the cats had drank some of it ooooops.
Unfortunatley I didn't do many pics on my iPhone that day. I think I will be making some again soon, so I will make sure I take plenty of pics.
Natalie.x
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