Yummy cupcakes that not only taste good, but are gluten free!! This is the best gluten free cake I have had! In June I made a gluten free vanilla cake from Bob’s Red Mill cake mix for my strawberry shortcake. This is heaps better! Bob’s Red Mill mix tasted…uh…well…(as Leah put it), like a cow 😀 Even Charissa (who doesn’t like anything gluten free) liked these!
Karina at GFG has a this wonderful recipe at her blog along with some great photos! She used mocha icing (recipe also on her blog) and I planned to do that too. Only a few problems came in my way.
1) we have no powdered sugar. That is a big problem since it is practily the main ingredient!
2) we have no coffee. I can’t have coffee.
3) I was going to replace the coffee with cappucino powder. We ran out.
4) I can’t have chocolate. Thus, I can’t us the cocoa powder it calls for.
I guess that is a bit more than a few problems, so I solved it all by just making regular icing after Jessica went to the store and bought me some powdered sugar. So, I have a creamy white topping and Karina has a creamy brown topping 🙂
Oh, and another thing I did different…
Millet flour is my new best baking friend, so I added a bit of it replacing some of the other flour. I really don’t know why I did that, but I love mixtures of flours. I sometimes can’t stand using a recipe that uses only one or two flours. But do whatever you like, if you ever make it. I really can’t see someone who is not gluten free making this just because I said they taste good! 🙂
So if you care to try one, come right on over before I eat them up…or before my sisters snatch them right from under my eyes! 🙂
{and here Anna comes into the sunroom singing a song of wanting a cupcake…I think it might be a hint 🙂 }
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Those cupcakes look absolutely scrumptious! I’ve never had any gluten-free baked good before, but I’m guessing it turns out lighter than the non-gluten-free kind.
Great pictures, and I love the new blog design!
Thank you!
Actually non gluten free cakes and breads turn out lighter…although, these are light 🙂
~Susannah
I’m going to have to try these! 😀 they look so good! thanks for a great recipe that’s trimmed to fit us ‘special’ gluten free people! 😀
Those look yummy!
and since I’m commenting here, I’ll just tell you my thoughts abot Fred. I thought it might have been 3 different things. Dog, sutior, and friend. I got one of my idea’s right!!! 😀
Mmm….looks yummy! The photos look beautiful and the cupcakes look moist and delicate. Thanks for sharing, Seven Sisters!
Joyfully in Jesus,
Elizabeth
P.S. I loved seeing your lovely summer picnic post on FF today! How delightful.
They look so yummy……….I have never tried any-thing gluten free before. I think I will now:) The post on FF was so pretty . Where did yall get those really pretty tea cups?
P.s. Tell Jessica that I am going out of town so It might take me a little bit to e-mail her back
~hugs~
Kelsye
We have gotten the tea cups from different places at different times 🙂 I know we’ve gotten several at “antique” stores, and some at a tea cup place in a mall. Roses & Tea Cups have lots of pretty ones, but I’m not sure if we’ve ever gotten any from there! 😀
Love and hugs!
Jessica
P.S. That’s alright! I shall be patient 😀
Oh,yummy!! half of my family has to be on a gluten free diet!! Thank you!
Just a small note to everyone anything you make with Bobs RedMill doesn’t taste very good!