Coconut Cupcakes Recipe

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Coconut Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

Dry ingredients bowl in first bowl

120 g buckwheat flour
40 g coconut flour (for full grain free, ie ‘no buckwheat’, do 80g / 3/4 cup coconut flour and increase to 2 eggs)
1 tsp aluminium free baking powder
2/3 tsp bi carb soda
1 tsp vanilla bean powder (if you don’t have, just do 2 teaspoons vanilla bean extract in the wet ingredient bowl)
40 g desiccated coconut

Wet bowl ingredients in a second bowl

1 egg broken up with a fork first in the bowl (if you have egg allergy to cater for, you can replace the egg with 50ml extra of coconut milk. It will be a little less stable in texture if you wanted to make a cake, but still perfect for cupcakes)
160 ml rice syrup (I feel better personally with low/no fructose baking when possible given that the liver can process about 2 pieces of fruit’s worth a day… if you don’t subscribe to that choice feel free to use honey, maple syrup, coconut sugar, coconut syrup or rapidura as unrefined natural sweetening options. You could also use stevia glycerate or erythritol if needs be, although I find them to taste very chemically).
120 ml coconut milk (there is a little fructose in coconut milk. If super sensitive / fructose malabsorption issues, replace with nut milk or whole milk)
90 ml melted butter (you could use ghee or coconut oil for extra dairy sensitivity)

Instructions

Pop the oven on 180C / 350 F, non fan forced setting.
Once you’ve got everything in your wet and dry bowls, just give them each a little stir through.
Combine the bowls together and stir through until just combined.
Leave for a minute to firm up.
Pour into your cupcake cups, leaving 1cm off the top for rising.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, doing a skewer test at 20 minutes to check. Skewer comes out clean? You’re done.

THERMOMIX NOTE:

Pop everything (make sure butter is cooled so it doesn’t cook the egg) into the thermomix and blend on Speed 6 for 5 seconds. Reverse Speed 5 for 3 seconds. Done.

Notes

WHERE TO GET THESE INGREDIENTS

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