Description
These paleo vegan chocolate cupcakes are made with cassava flour and topped with a chocolate coconut cream frosting. Grain free, dairy free and egg free!
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- 1/2 cup cassava flour (70g) spooned & leveled
- 1/3 cup Dutch processed cocoa powder (28g) sifted, spooned & leveled
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup almond milk (or coconut milk)
- 1/2 cup almond butter (just dry roasted almonds)*
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Frosting
- 1 cup coconut cream**
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips (65-75% dark chocolate)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin pan with 9 cupcake liners.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the cassava flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a larger mixing bowl, combine the almond milk, almond butter, maple syrup, apple cider vinegar and vanilla. Whisk until smooth.
- Pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture. Whisk until smooth.
- Scoop the batter into your lined muffin pan, filling each slot nearly to the top (making 9 cupcakes).
- Place the cupcakes in the oven and bake at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes.
- Remove the cupcakes from oven. Cool 5 minutes in baking pan, then carefully transfer to a wire cooling rack.
Frosting
- Melt coconut cream and chocolate chips in a small sauce pan, over low heat.
- Once fully melted, remove from heat and add in the vanilla. Whisk until smooth.
- Place frosting in the fridge for 1.5 - 2 hours to firm.
- Frost cooled cupcakes.
Notes
For best results, measure ingredients by weight (when given).
Store cupcakes in an airtight container in the fridge, especially after frosting.
*For a nut free version, swap the almond butter for sunflower seed butter
**Just the thick white cream from a can of coconut cream or full fat coconut milk