Crazy Cupcakes

So now that you know how to make the middle part of the cupcakes.... on to the actual cupcake!

The Chocolate Chip Cookies:

I used the recipe straight from Cybele’s book: here (I wasn’t about to try and mess with a recipe for this experiment!)

¾ cup palm oil shortening

½ cup + 1 T granulated sugar

½ cup + 1 T brown sugar

2 ¼ t vanilla

2 ¼ t egg replacer mixed w/ 3 T rice milk *

1 ½ cups + 3 T gluten free flour mix

¾ t xanthan gum

1 1/8 t baking soda

½ t salt

1 cup + 2 T chocolate chips (again used the Enjoy Life ones)

1.   Cream shortening and sugars until light and fluffy; then add the egg replacer with rice milk and vanilla

2.   Add the flours and other dry ingredients to the already mixed sugar, shortening, “eggs” mixture.  Mix until just combined

3.   Fold in chocolate chips

4.   Press about 1 ½ T of dough into a GREASED and FLOURED muffin pan**

Now place one finished Abby’s SunButter Cups into the middle of the cookie dough.

Finally the Brownies – again taken straight from Cybele (same book as above)

6 ounces unsweetened chocolate – chopped up

½ cup palm oil shortening

2 cups granulated sugar

8-10 ounces of prune puree or apple/plum puree – aka, baby food (I promise, you won’t taste it)

1 T vanilla

1 ¾ cups + 2 T gluten free flour mix

½ t xanthan gum

1 T baking powder

sadly, the only pictures of the brownies.... Karli chopping up chocolate!

1.    Preheat oven to 350 F

2.    Combine chocolate and shortening in a bowl and microwave in 30 second increments until melted, stirring after each 30 seconds.  Add in sugar and baby food when chocolate is melted.

3.    Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, mixing until just combined.

4.    Spread about ¼ cup of brown mixture over the Abby’s SunButter Cup – just use your clean fingers, it works much better

Bake for about 20-25 minutes  -- I had trouble figuring out if they were done because you can’t just stick a toothpick in to see if they are done… you hit the gooey SunButter Cups!  Just do your best J

Let cool in the pans – they will be easier to get out that way!  (If you can get one out warm, then go for it, if not -- microwave for 10-15 seconds to heat up!)

*yes, I did make these 100% vegan as well since I was taking the left overs to my niece’s 2^nd birthday party and some of her little buddies are allergic/don’t eat eggs (plus you can eat the dough raw this way!)

**I learned about this AWESOME way to grease your pans -- stay tuned for next post!