Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes
Preparation
20 mins
Baking
20 mins
Makes
12 Cupcakes
Low FODMAP serve
1 Cupcake
What you'll need
1 ⅓ cups Lo-Fo Pantry Plain Flour
2 ½teaspoon baking powder
¾ cup cocoa
1 pinch salt
75g room temperature butter
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup almond milk
For the icing
¼ cup chocolate chips
125g butter
1 ½ cups icing sugar
1 tablespoon lactose free milk
Recommended product from Lo-Fo Pantry
Lo-Fo Pantry Plain Flour
Process
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 160C (320F) and line a 12 capacity muffin tray with cupcake liners.
Step 2
Place caster sugar and butter in a bowl. Use electric beaters to cream the butter and sugar. Once the butter is light in colour add in the vanilla extra and eggs, one at a time.
Step 3
Sift in ¼ of the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa and salt into the butter mixture. Alternate with the almond milk, stirring in-between until a thick mixture forms.
Step 4
Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin tray. Fill the cupcake liners till they are ¾ full.
Step 5
Bake in the oven for 15-20 mins or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Step 6
Meanwhile to make the buttercream icing, cream the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until combined. Add lactose free milk until you have the perfect thick consistency.
Step 7
Once the cupcakes have finished cooking remove from the oven and let them completely cool on a wire rack before icing.
Step 8
Spoon your icing into a zip lock bag and then snip the bottom corner off (the larger the hole, the more icing will come out).
Step 9
Pipe tall spirals of your icing onto the top of each cooled down cupcake.
Step 10
Using your chocolate chips – you can place two on each muffin as ‘eyes’ to make ghost cupcakes or melt and set into any fun shapes such as spiders or spiders webs.
*Recipe approved by FODMAP Friendly to the recommended serving size as appropriate for a low FODMAP diet