Gingerbread Cupcakes (vegan & gluten-free)

Beautiful festive wholesome gluten-free vegan cupcakes with gingerbread spices and white chocolate frosting.

I’ve been really inspired bringing little gold touch to my festive recipes as we’re approaching the end of 2019 and my latest recipes are created with Christmas and New Year’s Eve in mind bringing little sparkle and magic into your Life.

These Gingerbread Cupcakes were such pleasure for me to create, I wanted to make these for over a month now but as always everything has its divine timing and now the time for these to come to Life arrived.

They are adapted from my Gingerbread Layer Cake that I’ve created at Christmas time last year. I’ve used walnuts and teff flour in these with lovely gingerbread spices, blackstrap molasses and orange zest. They have a lovely moist texture and wonderful flavor. You could just make these as muffins topped with some chopped walnuts before baking. I was thinking of adding few fresh cranberries in but didn’t at the end, maybe you could try that if you fancy too.

You can swap the gluten-free flours to suit your needs. I do love teff walnuts combination and I recommend trying it if you haven’t before.

To pipe on top I’ve used the White Chocolate Frosting that I’ve created for my Yule Log, but instead of white chocolate, I’ve used cacao butter.

For the decoration, I’ve used a square of gold tissue on top of brown cupcake liners with hemp string to secure it and little sprigs of waxflowers to add a special touch. 

The gold stars are my Walnut Fennel Cookies that I have rubbed with little antique gold edible lustre powder. It worked really well and they look stunning on top of the cupcakes. Except for the gold powder, everything is created with only wholesome ingredients and tastes just beautiful.

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Yield: 10 cupcakes

Gingerbread Cupcakes (vegan & gluten-free)

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Beautiful festive wholesome gluten-free vegan cupcakes with gingerbread spices and white chocolate frosting.

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 38 minutes

Inactive Time 6 hours

Total Time 7 hours 3 minutes

Ingredients

Gingerbread cupcakes:

• 1 cup ground walnuts (100 grams)
• 1/2 cup teff flour (70 grams)
• 1/4 cup brown rice flour (35 grams)
• 1/4 cup tapioca flour (30 grams)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon allspice
• pinch sea salt
• zest of 1 orange
• 3/4 cup coconut sugar (100 grams)
• 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed + 6 tablespoons water
• 1/2 cup apple sauce (120 ml)
• 2 tablespoons blackstrap molasses
• 1/3 cup olive oil (80 ml)
• 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• plant milk if needed

Topping:

• White Chocolate Frosting
• Walnut Fennel Star Cookies
• edible gold lustre powder

Decoration:

• gold tissue paper
• string
• waxflowers

Instructions

1. Mix 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed with 6 tablespoons water and set aside to thicken.
2. Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C)
3. Line 12 hole cupcake tin with cupcake liners. You will have 10 to 12 cupcakes.
4. In a large bowl whisk together, ground walnuts, teff flour, brown rice flour, tapioca, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, salt and sugar. Whisk in orange zest and set aside.
5. In a small bowl whisk together gelled flax eggs, apple sauce, molasses, olive oil, apple cider vinegar and vanilla.
6. Add the wet mix to the dry mix and mix until well combined. You should have loose muffin consistency. Add a splash of plant milk if needed.
7. Spoon the mixture evenly into your prepared cupcake liners.
8. Bake for about 35 to 40 minutes or until a cocktail stick comes out clean.
9. Remove from the oven once ready and leave to cool down for 20 min before removing from the tin.
10. Prepare the White Chocolate Frosting from this recipe a night before.
11. Once the cupcakes have cooled down wrap them with a square of gold tissue and tie a string around, tuck in little sprigs of waxflowers.
12. Spoon the frosting into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle and pipe on top of the cupcakes.
13. Rub star cookies with little antique gold edible lustre powder and place them on top of the cupcakes.
14. Once frosted store in fridge.
15. Enjoy!

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

10

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 274Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 209mgCarbohydrates: 32gFiber: 3gSugar: 19gProtein: 4g

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