Chocolate cupcake recipes can include delicious cupcake recipes that are gluten free and grain free. Learn how to make chocolate cupcakes using nut flours and learn how to adjust the leavening to make lower carb cupcake recipes.
You'll also learn how frost your chocolate cupcake recipes 3 different ways using a dark chocolate Ganache recipe.
And in a pinch, you could turn your cupcake recipes and the dark chocolate Ganache into a beautiful cake that will be remembered for a long time by whoever gets to consume it.
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Whipped Frosting Ingredients:
Tip 1: I prefer raw honey over agave nectar because it's lower on the glycemic scale.
Tip 2: You can either buy hazelnut flour or make your own at home (preferably using properly soaked and dried hazelnuts).
First, remove the hazelnut skins. Then put them into a blender and blend until a nut flour forms. Then sift the flour for a better texture in your cupcake recipes.
Cupcake Instructions:
Whipped Frosting Instructions:
Ganache Ingredients:
Ganache Instructions:
Tip 1: Decorate by adding toasted nuts, toasted coconut, cocoa powder, sprinkles, etc. to your cupcake frosting.
You can use a Ganache recipe to pour over your chocolate cupcake recipes to give it that glossy look. Or whip completely cooled Ganache to create a fluffy lighter frosting that's great for piping.
Or keep Ganache at room temperature until it hardens to a spreadable frosting for your chocolate cupcake recipes.
When you pour your chocolate ganache recipe on your cupcakes - it should look as spectacular as this cake.
Tip 2: Use your chocolate cupcake recipes to make a quick chocolate cake for that special occasion.
Use a dark chocolate Ganache recipe as the frosting for a spectacular looking Birthday, Anniversary, Mother's Day, Father's Day, or Valentine's Day Cake.
Cupcake Ingredients:
Frosting Ingredients:
I've never used palm shortening, but it would probably make a better frosting than coconut cream which may create a soggy cupcake.
Palm shortening is made from palm oil that has had some of its unsaturated fats removed, giving it a firmer texture and high melting point.
Supposedly, palm shortening is not hydrogenised and contains No trans fats.
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Do you love to adjust other people's recipes, but have been confused about how much leavening you really need to use when you change a recipe?
Well maybe this information will finally help you to avoid that funky metallic off-taste that sometimes occurs when you cut down on the amount of sugar in recipes.
When adjusting a chocolate cupcake recipe to be lower in carbs or sugar, you need to understand how to adjust the leavening.
Use a gluten free baking powder if you are following a gluten free diet.
The following ratios are good to know, so that you can evaluate recipes before actually baking to ensure success.
For Non-Acidic Recipes: 1 Cup Flour = 1 to 1 1/4 tsp. Baking Powder
For Very Acidic Recipes: 1 Cup Flour = 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder and 1/8 tsp. Baking Soda
And baked goods with a lot of heavy ingredients like carrot cake cupcakes, may need a tiny bit more leavening.
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