These are very flavorful and easy to make cupcakes. This is a very good option to bake for holidays and not feel guilty. Since, it’s a holiday bake I have given it a colorful look but if you don’t want sugar filled frosting, you can totally skip that. Now get to it already.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1 cup almond flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp lemon extract
- 2 tbsp sprinkles
- ¼ cup coconut shredding
Buttercream Frosting:
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter at room temperature
- 1 ¾ cup Confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar
- 3-4 drops Green food color
- Heavy whipping cream
- Vanilla Extract
Tips:
- Use all the ingredients to make cupcake at room temperature.
- Try to fill the cupcake tray just halfway giving room the cupcake to rise and put frosting.
- While making frosting try to fluff the butter as much possible without breaking it.
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degree F.
- Take a big bowl, add all the wet ingredients including egg, maple syrup, olive oil, milk, lemon extract and mix well.
- Add the almond and oat flour, baking soda, coconut shreddings and salt into the mixture.
- Prepare a baking tray by lining it with cupcake liner.
- Fill the cupcake tray with batter and top it with sprinkles.
- Bake for 15 minutes until the middle is cooked.
- Meanwhile, get the frosting ready by whisking the butter to make it fluffy. Then, add confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar little by little and whisk until you get stiff peaks of frosting. In the end, add vanilla extract, heavy cream , green food color and salt and mix well.
- Add frosting to a icing bag with a icing tip.
- Take cupcakes out of the oven, let them cool completely, frost it and then enjoy.
