Frosted Jam Donut Cupcakes (Gluten Free and low in fat!)

Is it Doughnut or donut?  
doooo nut or doughy sugary heaven fried nut? meh.
you say tomato and i say tomato...

  

What was supposed to be just an ordinary innocent vanilla cupcake... became so much more...

 It looks like a fancy cupcake (due to over generous frosting sprinkles) but when you bite into it, it tastes like a delicious naughty jammy doughnut, only it has next to none of those bad fats.... aaaand its gluten free. its magic, I swear.

 

 If the police force got a whiff of this donut goings on, and spied this recipe, They'd get their s.w.o.t team  in on the double to swoop in on this batch of healthified doughnut cakey goods. They taste so good it should be criminal. So arrest me, but don't confiscate my baked goods. please. any thing but that.

 

I burrowed in to the sponge, filled up each cake with jam and popped their hats back on...

 Recipe + Ingredients

• 1/2c oat flour [ground in a blender from oat groats or steel cut oats]
• 1/2c rice flour
• 3T coconut flour
• 1/3csuger substitute like spender granulated sweetener.
• 2 large eggs
• 1/3 cup fat free vanilla / plain yoghurt
• 1t vanilla extract
• 1/2t salt
• 1t baking powder

 Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 180*C +line muffin tin with papers.
2. In a medium sized bowl mix together the oat flour, sweet rice flour, coconut flour, sweetener, salt + baking powder.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs and yoghurt.
4. Stir wet into dry, until combined.  Do not over stir.  It will look slightly lumpy.
5. pour or spoon the batter to your pan leaving a little room at the top.
6. Bake for 18-22min.
7. Test with a toothpick for doneness doughyness.  You want a slightly moist toothpick.  Not gooey but not bone dry.  The tops of the donut should be golden brown and it will spring back when you press it lightly.
8. Let them cool in the pan for 5min then turn out onto a cooling rack.
9. when cooled, using a knife cut out the center of the cupcake and spoon in a teaspoon of jam and or butter cream. place 'lid' back on and pipe on swirls vanilla frosting.

For the frosting i use this recipe!

• 2 cups of powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup of no fat cream cheese
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp non-fat milk

 ohhhh I really want a donut pan now!

Happy birthday Bake n Beebz!!!

happy birthday to me, happy birthday to beebz, happy brithday dear Bake n beebz!
We've turned 1! Me and Beebz have done a whole lot of fun and foodie things in the space of 12 months...but mostly consisting of sweet tooth yummy stuff. Time well spent.

awesome photoshopping skillz... still yet to be improved.

One of our First ever posts was cupcakes, so my celebratory birthday party time post is all about cupcakes... my, my how this lil blog has come along, as well as turning gluten free, Its funny to see how my baking and photographing skills have definitely improved... here's to another year of baking n Beebz...

Its my birthday and I'll eat cake if I want to. ok. thanks... nom.

gluten free and vegan Jam doughnut cupcake recipe to come tomorrow!

GLUTEN FREE Apple and Blackberry healthy muffinz

 ohhhh what to do with my bumper crop of berries!!?! There were so many recipes these juicy sweet berries would've made special, but recently I have been finding myself needing a portable yummy snack for my break times in the school staff room.

Whilst All my colleages dunk their biscuits in the tea and coffees after a testing morning of educating little'uns, I sit there nibbling my fruit ( not that fruits bad! fruits good for you kids, eat it!) ... but treats just satisfy that 11o'clock sweet tooth snack attack sooo much more. And in any case this is a muffin that healthy and jam packed full to the brim with goodness.

Made from soya yoghurt instead of any fat these muffins are moist and packed full of a deliously sweet berry flavour, whole blackberries and chunks of cooking apple add texture and an extra tart hit in every bite.

BLACKBERRY AND APPLE MUFFINS
MAKES 6 (large)
86 CALORIES
Ingrediants
1 pot of Alpro Blackberry soya yogurt
1/4 cup Splenda/ granulated sweetener
1 cup blackberries
1 egg white/ 1 tsp flax seed
1 medium cooking apples cooked and pureed
1 medium apple finely chopped
1 tsp vanilla flavouring
1/4 cup oats
1/2 cup gluten-free flour mix
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg)
3/4 tsp salt


Directions
1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees C.
2. Line muffin tins with cupcake liners.
3. In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients...  flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.  Set aside.
4. In another bowl, combine the following ingredients... pureed apple, Alpro yogurt pot, sweetener, vanilla extract, and egg.  

5. Now add the wet ingredients to the dry and fold the mixture.  DO NOT OVERMIX. 
6. Add the berries and chuncks of apple and fold gently.
7. Spoon the batter into the cupcake liners.
8. Place the muffins in the oven for 16-18 minutes.

GULTEN FREE + VEGAN CHOCOLOATE CUPCAKES

I whipped up some special cupcakes for a special occasion! These Anniversary Cupcakes tasted rich and decadent but aren't too naughty for the waistline... oh and there vegan aaaaaand Gluten Free. Its a miracle.

 

I did a little experimenting first....lab coat on and electric whisk plugged in. For my first recipe trial, I used chickpea gram flour and adapted a Babycakes recipe. For the second batch  I used only rice flour. The Babycakes recipe was very fudgey, I could just taste gram flour and didn't rise too well but...

After extensive taste tasting I was pleasantly surprised with how successful my rice flour cakes had turned out. they rose a treat, had a bouncy, spongy crumb and weren't too over overpoweringly chocolaty. WE HAVE A WINNER.

GLUTEN FREE AND VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE!
Ingredients- makes 10 cupcakes

 Dry ingredients
110g rice flour
35g potato flour
50g cocoa powder
15g arrowroot
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/2 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 tsp salt

100 ml coconut oil (melted)
100 ml applesauce
150 ml agave nectar
110 ml hot water

Directions.

1. Pre heat oven to 170 degrees C and line a muffin tin with paper cases.
2. In a bowl sift all dry ingredients and mix.
3. in a jug or bowl combine the wet ingredients and slowly pour into dry ingredients whilst electric mixer is on slow.
4. whisk until mixture is smooth, pour or spoon into cases.
5. bakes for 15- 18 minutes. 
6. allow to cool then frost and sprinkle those babies!

 These were so delicious! I used a chocolate vegan icing recipe to top them off!

what have you baked lately?
Have you ever tried vegan or gluten free baked goods?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY.

Judging by this text I received yesterday, we were defiantly made for each other...

Yup Its mine and Mr bake n beebz' Anniversary today. I was 16 when we met and boy has time flown by!

LOVE YOU HARRY!

We spent this sweltering summer's afternoon strolling around the lake and park with Bobbin, The weather was stunning and the park was packed!  After we walked up to town and treated ourselves to a slap up meal to celebrate.

 We dined at Wagamamas, one of our favourites, specializing in tasty simple Japanese food. They also go out of their way to cater for all allergies and help you select a meal.

I chose the Saien Soba - noodles in a vegetable soup topped with fried tofu, beansprouts, courgettes, asparagus, red onion, leeks, mushrooms, mangetout and garlic. garnished with spring onio. They used rice noodles instead of wheat and substitued the miso soup for a gluten friendly base. 

We have been to Wagamamas many times and I wanted to try something I don't normally get and although i love the way they are so brilliant at adapting, this was a little lacking in flavour, but I still happily slurped it up! (It made me miss the days when I woulda ordered whatever the heck I liked.)

Harry went for his favourite... chilli ramen and polished it off.

Harrys bowl had noodles in a spicy chicken and pork soup topped with your choice of chicken or beef sirloin, beansprouts, red and spring onions and chillies. garnished with coriander and lime.

Bobbin waited patiently under the table for her noodle scraps ;) I have no shame.

(oh and shes had a haircut... she came into my salon to have a her hacked off this morning.)
Whilst in town we did a little shopping and I had to buy the cupcake version of the muffin dog toy....

she had trouble deciding which to chew on for dessert...

In the end she wanted cake.

Whilst us humans had real cupcakes...

I baked some special anniversary GF chocolate cupcakes. These were lovely, decadent and fudgey...going into for my second and about to slip into chocolate coma.

Recipe to come!

Fluff Stuff

 I have fluff in my possession...

On a shopping trip to Brighton, on Saturday I wondered into, the American candy store, Cyber candy, and discovered they now stock fluff! They must have heard my pleads. This stuff is all i ever dreamed of and more. As soon as I leapt onto train home, found my seat, relatively safe out of the judging public eye, I scooped my paw in and gobbled up a couple of handfuls.Then i suddendly remembered i had also bought some gluten free chocolate animal crackers... so they got a good dunkin' oh it was the BEST TRAIN COMMUTE EVAAAAAH. Its so sweet, even for my sweet tooth, my mouth kinda ached afterwards, It is after all a massive marshmallow poured into a glass jar...but its worth it.

On Sunday I baked some GF chocolate cupcakes for me and some friends i was meeting at the beach. I topped them with mallow fluff and sprinkles. That fluff had a mind of its own and kept dripping every where, messy but worth the rediculously stick fingers. I think this could be a new enduring love affair....

 

next stop fluffer nutter sam michs here i come...

have you ever had marshmallow in a jar? whats your stance on teh fluff? like, love or hate?

Right back to packing up my appartment... Big move tomorrow...

Happy Birthday to me...

makin' a wish for more cakes on my third birthday

 Fast forward 20 years and I'm still surrounding my self with cupcakes. Yep, yesterday i turned 23. and i celebrated with some birthday baking in the morning...

Gluten free zesty cupcakes with a lemon curd centre and butter cream icing!

 Heaven! Recipe will be posted tomorrow!
In the afternoon Mr. Bake n Beebz whisked me to the park for a surprise outing...

Boating on Stanbrough lakes! It was a beautiful warm summer's day and i had so much fun, couldn't get the knack of that rowing, though, the only place we were going was round in circles, so left all that hard work to harry and sat back, enjoyed the view and splashin' the duckies. After, we walked beebz and ate, perfect day.

Chocolate Coma

 Going

 Going

Gone.

 Had to pack Harry off with the remaining slices... To get this dangerous cake away from me, and out of my house.

Fajita spiced chicken, baby spinach, dollop of sour cram and chive,  toms and peppers.

 A salad to balance everything out...