Gluten Free chocolate Cupcakes
Who doesn’t love chocolate? These delicious gluten free chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream icing are easy to make, and taste amazing.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 18-20 minutes
- Total Time: 43-45 minutes
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcake ingredients:
- 1 3/4 cup gluten-free flour blend (with 1 teaspoon guar or xanthan gum if your mix does not already contain it.)
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups milk
- 1/3 cup oil
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups granulated sugar
For the chocolate buttercream:
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º
- In a medium bowl, stir flour blend, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, instant coffee, and salt together and set aside
- In a larger mixing bowl, beat eggs, milk, oil, vanilla, and sugar together
- Stir in dry ingredients until fully incorporated
- Beat an additional minute
- Divide batter between 12 paper-lined cupcake tins
- Bake in center of oven for 18-20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean
- Remove from oven and let cupcakes cool
- When cupcakes are cool, beat icing ingredients together until smooth
- Pipe, or spread icing onto cupcakes
- Decorate and serve
- Enjoy!