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Gluten Free Vanilla Cupcakes

Course Dessert
Keyword Christmas, Cupcakes, Gluten Free
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 12
Author Cat Barker

Ingredients

For cupcakes

  • 1/2 cup Sunflower Oil
  • 1/2 cup Castor sugar
  • 2 large Eggs
  • 1 cup Woolworths Gluten Free Cake Flour
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 1/3 tsp Baking Powder (not soda)
  • 1/2 cup Milk can also use almond milk
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Essense

For Frosting

  • 280 g butter room temp
  • 560 g Icing Sugar sifted
  • 5 ml Milk

Instructions

For cupcakes

  • Preheat oven to 180C, line cupcake pan with cupcake wrappers 
    2. In a mixing bowl, whisk oil and sugar. Add eggs and beat for one minute. 
    3. Add flour, salt, baking powder, milk and vanilla and beat for another minute 
    4. Spoon batter into cupcake wrappers (only filling halfway) and bake for 15 - 20 minutes or until cupcakes are lightly browned
    5. Cool completely before frosting  

For the buttercream

  • Beat butter until light and creamy 
    2. Then add in half the icing sugar and mix till combined. 
    3. Now add the milk and the other half of icing powder and mix till combined 
    4. Divide your icing into separate bowls and mix in a few drops of food colouring according to what design you'd like to make. For chocolate - just add a few tsp of cocoa powder.  
    5. Fill your icing into piping bags and get decorating!