Category: Frostings

Double Chocolate Cashew Cupcakes

Chocolate, Cupcake/Cake, Frostings, Recipes, Sweet Recipes

These cupcakes are divine!! You can also make them with almond butter or peanut butter… those variations coming soon!
Sometimes gluten, dairy and refined sugar free baked goods are dense and lack moisture. But I promise you these are fluffy and moist (sorry I don’t have a better word for it 😬)!!

Cupcakes:
1/4 cup + 3 TB milk (I used @goodmylkco almond milk)
3 TB cacao powder
1/3 cup cashew butter
5 TB maple syrup
1 egg
1/4 tsp vanilla 
1/4 cup + 2 TB almond flour 
1/4 tsp baking soda
4 TB arrowroot 
A very large pinch of sea salt

Frosting: 
2/3 cup cashew butter
1/2 cup maple syrup 
A very large pinch of sea salt
1/8 tsp vanilla
2 TB cacao powder

Make sure cashew butter and egg are at room temperature and oven is set to 350 degrees before beginning.
Heat milk in a saucepan over medium low heat until the milk scalds. Remove from the heat and pour into a liquid measuring cup or bowl. Add cacao powder and stir to combine. Let sit until it reaches room temperature.

Cream cashew butter and maple syrup in a mixing bowl with a large mixing spoon or spatula. Add the egg and vanilla and cream until homogenous. 
Strain the cacao milk mixture over the creamed cashew mixture (using a fine mesh strainer- or if you don’t have one, you can blend the cacao milk in a blender to make sure there are no lumps) in two additions folding the milk in completely before adding the second addition. 
Whisk the dry ingredients together and add to the creamed mixture in 3 additions, folding the ingredients in completely before adding another addition. 

Bake in cupcake molds for 25 minutes, rotating halfway through cooking.
Remove from the oven and let sit for 10 minutes before unmolding. Let the cupcakes come to room temperature before frosting them.

Cream the room temperature cashew butter, maple syrup, vanilla and sea salt together in a mixing bowl with a spoon or spatula. Once the mixture is homogenous, sift the cacao powder over it in two additions. Make sure to fold all of the first addition in before adding the second one. 
Pipe or spread the frosting on the cupcakes and enjoy! 

Double Peanut Butter Double Chocolate Cupcakes

Cupcake/Cake, Frostings, Recipes, Sweet Recipes

This recipe makes 4 cupcakes.

Cupcakes:

1/4 cup peanut butter

3 TB maple syrup

1 egg yolk

1/4 cup milk (I used hemp milk this time)

1/4 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp sea salt

4 TB almond flour

3 TB coconut flour

1 TB arrowroot powder

1/8 tsp baking soda

3 TB dark chocolate chips (or chopped chocolate)

Heat oven to 350. Have all ingredients at room temperature.

Cream peanut butter in a bowl using a large mixing spoon.

Add egg yolk and maple syrup to the peanut butter and cream until well combined.

Add vanilla extract to milk. Add the milk mixture to the peanut butter mixture in 3 additions, creaming well after each addition.

Stir dry ingredients together. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in 3 additions, folding each addition into the mixture until combined.

Fold in chocolate.

Bake in cupcake molds (I absolutely love my Silpat cupcake molds) for 35 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through.

Remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from the molds and allow them to come to room temperature.

Frosting:

1/4 cup + 1TB peanut butter

Large pinch of sea salt

1/4 cup maple syrup

1 TB cacao powder

1/8 tsp vanilla

Allow all ingredients to come to room temperature.

When the cupcakes are cooled, add all frosting ingredients to a bowl (sift the cacao powder if it’s lumpy) and stir or whisk until well combined.

Spread or pipe the frosting onto the cooled cupcakes and enjoy!

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Coconut, Cacao and Peanut Butter Frosting

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This frosting is delicious and creamy! You can use almond or cashew butter instead of peanut butter in this recipe.

  • 1/2 cup Coconut manna
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup
  • 2 large pinches of sea salt
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla
  • 1 TB cacao powder

*please use organic ingredients, if possible.

  1. Measure out all ingredients and allow to come to room temperature.
  2. Combine all ingredients (at room temperature) in a high powdered blender on high until just combined.
  3. Pipe or spread on cake or cupcakes. You can also store this frosting in the freezer for a few months, until you’re ready to use it. Allow it to thaw overnight in the refrigerator and then come to room temperature before using.

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Almond-Choc Collagen Frosting

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  • 4 TB maple syrup
  • 4 TB almond butter (or peanut butter or cashew butter)
  • 2 TB grass fed butter or coconut oil
  • 2 oz (about 2 TB + 2 tsp) chocolate (click for my recipe)
  • 3 scoops of collagen
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • pinch of salt
  1. Place all ingredients in a bowl. Melt over a double boiler. Stir initially to moisten the collagen with the maple syrup.
  2. Once the chocolate and fat start to melt, stir again. When the chocolate and fat are almost completely melted, start whisking over the double boiler until the frosting thickens.
  3. Remove from the heat and whisk a few times.
  4. Use to ice cupcakes, cakes, muffins, sundaes etc. immediately or store in an airtight glass container in the freezer.
  5. To thaw frozen frosting: bring a couple of inches of water to a boil in a saucepan. Turn the heat off and add the glass jar or container to the water to heat the frosting.

*please use organic ingredients, if possible.

*Note: because of the collagen, this frosting hardens very quickly. You have to use it while its warm and quickly. Because of this, you cannot pipe this frosting. I use a portion scoop to scoop the frosting over my baked good (or ice-cream). The frosting will run over and trip down the baked good and then harden.

Almond Chocolate Collagen Frosting=Intermediary Culinary Skill Level- click to read about how I rate the difficulty of my recipes

 

 

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Chocolate Frosting

Frostings, Recipes, Sweet Recipes

 

  1. Melt all ingredients together over a double boiler.
  2. Remove from double boiler and whisk until frosting becomes thick and glossy.
  3. Wait 10 minutes, then place frosting in the freezer for 8 minutes (stirring halfway) and frost cupcakes or cakes.
  4. To frost: Scoop frosting over baked good and smooth down with the back of a knife or with an offset spatula. Place back in the freezer for 5 minutes. Take out and smooth frosting with a spoon or your finger.

*please use organic ingredients, if possible

**Because I have replaced sugar with maple syrup, you cannot pipe this frosting. I use a small portion scoop, or you could use a spoon, to scoop over baked goods.

This frosting= Intermediary Culinary Skill Level- click to read about how I rate the difficulty of my recipes

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