Chocolate Quinoa Cupcakes - GF and Small Batch

10m
Prep Time
25m
Cook Time
35m
Ready In


"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

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

muffinlady

This is a quick and easy recipe incase you want to add more healthy things into your diet. It is a pretty quilt free recipe if you don't eat much and just limit your amount of sugar intake

5.0

review by:
(12 Sep 2012)

Luvcookn

The flavour of these flourless cupcakes is rich and chocolaty! They really don't need an icing/frosting. But I had some cream cheese with lemon so used that and sprinkled unsweetened cocoa over top. They will be gooda with a cuppa. Thank you for sharing!

5.0

review by:
(25 Feb 2012)

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