This week I have teamed up with M&S to test out their Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcake Recipe. I had never tried gluten free cupcakes before so was a little sceptical as to how they would taste in comparison to regular gluten cupcakes, but in all honesty there was no difference in taste. These were totally delicious! They were a little denser in texture but were really chocolaty and very decadent and the frosting was so so good! Mine looks a lot thicker than the one in their picture, it was a really tasty chocolate buttercream.
The recipe is also really simple, which is always a big tick in my books as I am actually not much of a baker, more of a general cook. But even I managed these without any issues (ok, except that creaming butter and sugar together by hand is blinking hard work! So use a mixer if you have one).
Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
Ingredients
- 250 g Unsalted butter
- 250 g Caster sugar
- 4 Eggs
- 150 g Gluten free flour
- 70 g Cocoa
- 180 g Unsalted Butter for frosting
- 30 g Cocoa for frosting
- 150 g Icing Sugar for frosting
- Chocolate chips to decorate
Instructions
- Cream the 250g butter with the 250g of sugar until white & fluffy
- Beat in the eggs one at a time
- In a mixing bowl sieve together the flour with the 70g cocoa, gradually fold this into the cream mixture.
- Divide this mix between 12 paper cases & bake in a pre heated oven at 180c for around 15-20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- To make the icing, sieve the cocoa with the icing sugar and beat this into the softened butter until creamy.
- Now spoon this evenly onto the cup cakes when they are completely cool.
- Decorate with chocolate chips and enjoy!
Notes
Have you tried Gluten Free recipes before? What do you think of them? Would you be tempted to try this recipe out yourself? If you have a gluten free recipe I would love to see it so please drop a comment below or add a link to your blog or website.
Ingredients Supplied by M&S
Hi! My husband’s absolute favorite cake is M&S’s gluten free chocolate cake found in M&S food halls. We don’t live in the UK now, so I’d be thrilled to be able to make it at home. What type of gluten free flour did you use?
Thank you!