Gluten Free Pumpkin Cupcakes with Candied Ginger Frosting
This weekend Dave and I had the bright idea to make pumpkin cupcakes.
We started with Betty Crockers Gluten Free Yellow Cake Mix We used this mix because we knew it would be a decent result. (and its the only one we had in the house!) Gluten free baking is such a horrific crap shoot. Half the time it doesn't come out or taste like a nerf ball that you end up throwing it away as its completely inedible. This mix which is about $5 is cheap for a GF mix.
What we did
Substitute pumpkin for the water in the mix.
Add half TBS of pumkin pie spice
Follow rest of package directions. Painfully simple right.
The pumpkin looks a little thick but with GF that is to be expected. We then took a readymade whipped frosting in a can. I believe it was Betty Crocker Buttercream. We put that in the mix master with orange food coloring, a dash of maple syrup and pumpkin pie spice. The frosting ended up too smooshy and gooey. I don't think whipped frosting is meant to be rewhipped. So we put it in a piping bag and stuck it in the fridge to harden for an hour. Then I piped it on and sprinkled crushed ginger and jimmies for Dav
They look ok but frosting wise I have made prettier.
The taste? Fantastic. It was very moist and absolutly delicious. I have to say I didn't like the frosting and would make my own next time. The downside? 6 points a cupcake and about 7-8 points a cupcake with frosting. GF food tends to be high in points but I will say this was worth its 6 points. Moist and real tasting.
Ok and when I say WE made them I mean I walked around grabbing ingredients while Dave did the brunt of the work. Waffle helped too. So yeah you probably don't want to eat my cupcakes. She stayed there the ENTIRE time. She isn't allowed in the kitchen (we have cardboard walls) so to be able to be in there she was very content to hang out in my sweatshirt.
What did you do this weekend? Did you make anything?
We started with Betty Crockers Gluten Free Yellow Cake Mix We used this mix because we knew it would be a decent result. (and its the only one we had in the house!) Gluten free baking is such a horrific crap shoot. Half the time it doesn't come out or taste like a nerf ball that you end up throwing it away as its completely inedible. This mix which is about $5 is cheap for a GF mix.
What we did
Substitute pumpkin for the water in the mix.
Add half TBS of pumkin pie spice
Follow rest of package directions. Painfully simple right.
The pumpkin looks a little thick but with GF that is to be expected. We then took a readymade whipped frosting in a can. I believe it was Betty Crocker Buttercream. We put that in the mix master with orange food coloring, a dash of maple syrup and pumpkin pie spice. The frosting ended up too smooshy and gooey. I don't think whipped frosting is meant to be rewhipped. So we put it in a piping bag and stuck it in the fridge to harden for an hour. Then I piped it on and sprinkled crushed ginger and jimmies for Dav
They look ok but frosting wise I have made prettier.
The taste? Fantastic. It was very moist and absolutly delicious. I have to say I didn't like the frosting and would make my own next time. The downside? 6 points a cupcake and about 7-8 points a cupcake with frosting. GF food tends to be high in points but I will say this was worth its 6 points. Moist and real tasting.
Ok and when I say WE made them I mean I walked around grabbing ingredients while Dave did the brunt of the work. Waffle helped too. So yeah you probably don't want to eat my cupcakes. She stayed there the ENTIRE time. She isn't allowed in the kitchen (we have cardboard walls) so to be able to be in there she was very content to hang out in my sweatshirt.
What did you do this weekend? Did you make anything?
Comments
I made a big vegetable omelette, does that count? With portobello mushrooms and red peppers and a shallot and some shrimp and goat cheese. It was messy but good.
Typically weekends are my baking/cooking weekends. This weekend I made flourless brownies from a recipe I got off the Whole Foods website - secret ingredient is black beans! I was curious how they would turn out... they didn't have to bake as long in my oven as the directions said, and they weren't very moist, and not super sweet. I might try them again with some extra sugar and extra butter and see if I like them better. Not that I DISLIKE them, I mean, I'll still eat them all, but considering brownies are my all-time-favorite dessert (and I love Namaste's brownie mix), I would rather have super-tasty brownies than just-okay brownies.
Kendra that sucks. I know how you feel to an extent but I can't even imagine what corn and potato adds to the aggravation. Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies or Brownies!
It's still hot here, so I'm not into the punkin just yet (and when it starts, it doesn't stop for months!) and i haven't baked anything except the sandwich bread that i try to make every weekend and isn't that exciting.
We did jerk some pork though and grilled it with papaya and mangos with coconut milk. soooo goooood. i am dreaming about leftovers for my lunch!
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