Chocolate Quinoa Cupcakes - GF and Small Batch
Recipe: #4555
February 10, 2012
Categories: Desserts, Cupcakes, Snacks, Birthday, Brunch, Christmas, Fathers Day, Halloween, July 4th Mothers Day, Picnic, Potluck, Valentine's Day, Oven Bake, High Protein, more
"I was looking for some recipes using quinoa flour and found this instead using the cooked grain itself. The original recipe from The Family Kitchen makes a large 9 inch double layer cake. I cut the recipe down to make 6 small cupcakes and they are so moist and delicious! They don't even need frosting IMO but you can still put some on."
Original is 3 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (103.1 g)
- Calories 286.2
- Total Fat - 15.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 8.7 g
- Cholesterol - 100.8 mg
- Sodium - 248.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 36.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.4 g
- Sugars - 25.5 g
- Protein - 5.3 g
- Calcium - 73.6 mg
- Iron - 1.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a muffin pan with 6 paper cupcake liners.
Step 2
Combine the milk, eggs and vanilla in a blender or mini food processor - I used my small magic bullet cup.
Step 3
Add the 1/2 cup cooked quinoa, melted butter and continue to blend until smooth.
Step 4
Whisk together the sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
Step 5
Add the contents of the blender and mix well.
Step 6
Divide the batter evenly between the liners - I used an ice cream scoop to measure mine. About a 1/4 cup each.
Step 7
Bake for 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean - my oven took 22 minutes.
Step 8
Remove from the oven and cool completely before serving. Mine came out puffed up but sorta fell down while cooling. Still moist and very chocolaty. 2 cupcakes per person would make a good serving IMO.
Step 9
Frost if desired. Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
Step 10
Note: you can also bake these in two 8oz ramekins for about 30-35 minutes if you don't want cupcakes.
Tips
No special items needed.
2 Reviews
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