Discover the best gluten-free Hostess cupcakes! Easy to make, deliciously chocolatey, and perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth.
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If you’re looking for an easy and delicious gluten-free cupcake recipe, this gluten-free hostess cupcake recipe might be just what you need. These cupcakes are not only chocolatey and moist but also simple to make with everyday ingredients. The recipe yields 12 cupcakes and incorporates gluten-free all-purpose flour, making it suitable for those with dietary restrictions. The inclusion of semisweet chocolate chips and cocoa powder adds richness, while the combination of eggs, vegetable oil, milk, and vanilla extract ensures a tender crumb.
The preparation is straightforward, starting with preheating the oven and preparing a muffin pan. After melting the chocolate chips with vegetable oil, the dry ingredients are combined and mixed with the wet ingredients for a smooth batter. Once baked, the cupcakes are filled with a creamy butter and powdered sugar filling, and topped with a luscious chocolate ganache. The final touch is a decorative swirl of filling on top, making these cupcakes not only tasty but visually appealing as well.
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Y’all got to try these glutenfree Hostess CupCakes now I love this recipe because it’s so easy to put together it’s a gluten-free chocolate cupcake recipe with the chocolate ganache vanilla buttercream in the middle and that famous little squiggly on top for a delicious and gluten-free version of this nostalgic treat I’m all about a.
Simple recipe and like all of my favorites One Bowl all you need everything comes together in this one bowl so for the flour I’m using Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free all-purpose flour it’s the 1:1 ratio blend this is a really good one it has zanth and gum already in it if your flow blend does not have zanth and gum make sure you add.
A half a teaspoon or if you want to order this and can’t find it at the store the Link’s in the description so 3/4 of a cup of our gluten-free allpurpose flour going in and then grain related sugar we also have 3/4 of a cup we have A3 of a cup of unsweetened cocoa powder then I’ve also got a half a teaspoon of kosher salt half a teaspoon.
Of baking soda and 3/4 of a teaspoon of baking powder you just want to whisk the dry ingredients together get everything really nicely dispersed in there if your cocoa powder is looking pretty lumpy make sure you sift it now with the wet ingredients first off here I have a half a cup of vegetable oil to which I added 3 oz or about a half a cup of semi.
Chocolate chips I put this in the microwave for 30 seconds and melted the chocolate and stirred it to combin this helps keep a really nice rich and moist cupcake which with chocolate is very important so I’m going to go ahead and add that into the bowl and then I’ve also got some vanilla extract going in about 1 teaspoon of.
Vanilla or more I’m heavy-handed with vanilla suei we have two large eggs and then half a cup of milk you can use whatever milk fits your dietary needs I’m using almond milk if you want to use regular milk cashew milk oat milk the world is your oyster honey and that’s it for the ingredients so just gently whisk to combine and this.
Makes such a beautiful batter it looks so great and now I have my gorgeous muffin pan with white paper Liners in it I always prefer to spray the top just lightly of the pan just in case the cupcakes go over or even the littlest bit that way they don’t stick this is a pretty delicate cake so if they do stick you can risk tearing them apart when you.
Go to remove them from the pan so just spray to be safe and then my other secret with cupcakes I used to work in a cupcake bakery making 400 a day starting at 4 a.m. and the cookie scoop was our just god-given gift of fast easy and consistent cupcakes this is a 2 and 3/4 in cookie scoop I find that it fills these perfectly they come out all.
Looking the same you want to fill each one about 2/3 of the way full and this recipe should make just about a dozen now I always like to just tap the pan on the counter it releases any air bubbles in the batter so they rise evenly and you want to put these in a.
350° F oven for 15 to 18 minutes I like to just touch the top if they spring back when lightly touched they’re done or you can always use a toothpick or a cake tester it should come out completely clean clean and you’re good to go I mean look at how good these look they come out so perfect I love that crackly top they smell amazing you can.
Tell they’re super light and fluffy perfect gluten-free chocolate cupcakes now you want to let these cool all the way before we move on to the filling because you cannot fill a warm cupcake it’s not going to go very well so when it comes to the filling of a classic hosas cupcake it’s that really light almost like whipped cream type of.
Filling and to me it has no flavor so I’m going to amp it up with some very light and fluffy vanilla buttercream because I think it would just go a little bit better and make these a little more special so in my Bowl here I have one cup which is two sticks of unsalted butter totally softened I beat this butter on a medium high speed for a.
Good few minutes to really make that butter super light and fluffy now we’re going to go classic vanilla so I have about a teaspoon and a half of vanilla extract going in there just going to mix this on a low speed to totally combine it with the butter and then turn it up to medium for another 30 seconds or so and then I.
Have powdered sugar um I would recommend sifting this before you add it in just to prevent any lumps and I have 2 and 1/2 cups of powdered sugar since it’s not really that much I’m just going to dump it all in at one time and the key to making really light buttercream with a recipe like this where it’s only a few ingredients is to just.
Keep beating it you really can’t over mix this so if you keep going on a high speed for a good few minutes It’ll be super light fluffy melt in your mouth frosting so I’ve got my cooled cupcakes here and I’ve got two piping bags this one is for later and this one I’ve cut about a half an inch um off the tip of the bag first what I’m going to do is.
I’m going to fold down the Piping Bag about a third of the way just like that and kind of prop my hand in there fold it around my hand open the bag up that just makes it neater and then I will get a spoonful of or a spatula full of frosting kind of push it down into the bag like that now we’re not putting all.
Of the frosting in this bag we’re going to save some of it for the decoration on top you know that little swirly pattern this is going to be the filling and that decoration so don’t use all the frosting for the filling so to fill these cupcakes I’m just going to push down into the center and then then pipe what feels like about a tablespoon worth of.
This filling I find that a tablespoon is just about the perfect amount cuz if you do it too much then the cupcake is going to totally fall apart the second you take that wrapper off and of course if there’s not enough it’s just a disappointment and I’m just going to go in and kind of first off push down any imperfections that may have happened.
When we piped the filling in and then because I am a perfectionist I’m going to just kind of flatten these out just to make the top super clean so that when we put the ganache on it they’ll still be nice and flat all right so next what I’m going to do is I’m going to pop these in the fridge just for about 5 or so minutes while we make.
The ganache it’s just going to help make things a little bit neater so when it comes to making ganache I use a very simple method I have 6 oz of semi chocolate chips in a bowl here and I have heated 3/4 of a cup of heavy cream in the microwave about a minute and a half or until it comes to a simmer and a scalded you don’t want to bring it.
To a full boil cuz it’s too hot and it’ll burn the chocolate but once your cream as to that simmering point which you can do on the stove as well all you do is pour it over your chocolate and then you want to let it sit for just about a minute or so and it’s going to melt the chocolate but it won’t overheat it and burn it and it’ll.
Make a really nice and smooth ganache now once it’s been about a minute I like to use either a spoon or a small spatula I’ll start in the center and just make small circular stirs in the center like this cuz it’ll take a minute for it to come together and then once you see that silky shininess start to appear in the center I find that so.
Exciting that’s when you can kind of start to speed up and widen in your stirs and just look at how gorgeous and shiny and smooth this is oh beautiful so once our ganache is all done and we’ve got our cupcakes that are filled time to dip these puppies so I’m just going to do a nice generous dunk in our ganache kind of rotate let the excess drip off.
And this is why chilling them actually really helps because it’ll help the ganache start to set pretty much immediately so that you don’t have tons dripping down the side it just makes the whole process a lot neater and quicker okay now these are absolutely gorgeous I would eat these as is but of course we have to decorate them before we do I’m.
Going to pop these in the fridge for about 5 more minutes just to let that ganache fully firm up so that we can pipe neat little swirls on top of them now the moment we’ve all been waiting far at least me I don’t know we’re going to pipe this little squiggly on top of the cupcakes the rest of the frosting I put in a another 12-in Piping Bag this.
Time I did use a small round tip and go slow on this there’s no need to rush and it also doesn’t have to be perfect these are homemade they don’t need to look like they came out of the factory that produces all of he snacked but I think to do this classic pattern we do three little.
Loops in the center like that and I’m not applying too much pressure you don’t really need to with these was that not surprisingly easy and look at how good these look I’m actually really proud of myself cuz I’d say that looks pretty dang similar to the store-bought version and we know it’s going to be a whole lot better the.
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