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How To Bake Healthy Cupcakes

Julie Storey, owner of the Brighton cupcake company, shows you how to create a delicious and healthy cupcake recipe at home using gluten free flour and rice milk. Enlarge

How To Bake Healthy Cupcakes

Julie Storey, owner of the Brighton cupcake company, shows you how to create a delicious and healthy cupcake recipe at home using gluten free flour and rice milk.

Cook:
12m
Total:
12m
Temp:
210° c  -  410° f

Ingredients

  • 200 g Flour
  • 50 g Cocoa Powder
  • 4 tsp Baking Powder
  • 120 g Sugar
  • 100 g Margarine
  • 1 small Banana
  • 220 ml Rice Milk

Step 1: Dry Ingredients

Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and sugar substitute together.

Step 2: Wet Ingredients

Melt the margarine in the microwave and mix in mashed banana and milk.

Step 3: Combine

Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ingredients and mix carefully, using up and over movements.

Step 4: Bake

Put 40g of cake mix into a paper cup and place in to a cupcake tray. Place in an oven preheated to 210 degrees for about 12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

Step 5: Decorate

Take a good quantity of the buttercream and spread over each cake. Optionally decorate with a slice of strawberry and place inside a decorative wrapper.