Gluten Free Vanilla Cupcakes

This next recipe is for cupcakes which contain no gluten or wheat...ideal for people with coeliac disease.

My mum has coeliac disease, so now when i bake cakes or desserts I mostly make them using a gluten free recipe so my mum can enjoy them too.

I have come across a lot of cupcake recipe's for coeliac's & often they are made with almonds & bulked up with all sorts of things because a gluten free cake is often harder to bind & crumbles easily.

However, I've found that keeping the recipe just the same as a normal cupcake and just replacing the normal flour with a gluten & wheat free one works out just as great.


These are the flours i use when baking gluten & wheat free foods. They are 'Doves Farm' plain white & white self-raising flour blend.

It works just as well as ordinary flour..it's just a bit more expensive!

Also, to ensure & help the mixture to bind better i sometimes add milk or an extra egg.

So, here is my recipe for gluten & wheat free cupcakes using this flour..

Ingredients:

• 115g Doves Farm gluten & wheat free flour
• 115g butter
• 115g caster sugar
• 3 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 2 tablespoons of milk

If you are making these cakes for somebody with a gluten & wheat tolerance, ensure that the other ingredients you use are suitable for coeliac's have not been contaminated with foods containing gluten or wheat in them. For example, ensure the butter you use does not have gluten bread crumbs in it.

Serves 20-25 cupcakes

Method:

1. Firstly grab your paper cases & line them in your bun tray & pre-heat your oven at Gas Mark 5
2. Put butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat together with whisk or wooden spoon until a fluffy & pale mixture is formed.
3. Add the eggs one at a time & beat.
4. Once the eggs have been mixed in, add the flour, baking powder & vanilla extract & mix until everything has blended together and a pale mixture has formed.
5. Divide the mixture evenly between the cases. I like to use either a teaspoon or a small sized ice cream scoop to do this.
6. Put the bun tray into the oven and bake the cake mixture for about 15-20 minutes or until cakes are a light golden colour.

And as you can see they turn out just like normal cupcakes...

Enjoy :)