Real Bees
Real Cupcakes
The idea for these fabulous cupcakes came from the book What’s New, Cupcake?
Of course my cupcakes are gluten free. And for these cupcakes, I used a Gluten Free devil’s food recipe.
Gluten Free Devil’s Food Cupcake
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rice flour (white or brown is fine)
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour
- 1/2 potato starch flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened)
- 3/4 tsp xanthan gum
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 tsp vanilla (I use my homemade bourbon vanilla for chocolate recipes)
- 2 eggs
Directions:
- Combine dry ingredients. Add milk, softened butter, and vanilla. Beat for 60 seconds on low.
- Add eggs. Beat on high until smooth.
- Pour into cupcake papers in cupcake pan (or cake pan)
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 20-25 minutes (Cupcakes are ready when they bounce back after being gently poked – I start checking around 22 minutes.)
Bee-autiful cake!
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That is the cutest cake ever! Makes me wish I had bought the all natural yellow sprinkles at Whole Foods that my kids begged for (allergic to dyes here.)
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Heather Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Those are actually cupcakes.
Thanks!
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You are one creative gal! That is perfect. Now, how are the 30,000 bees in your backyard? Can you hear them? What is the next step? I am so very curious.
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Heather Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:57 pm
@Andrea – We put the second super on after noticing we were about to have a population explosion. And none too soon. The hive has been crazy! We are quite certain our Queen cell we found is a supercedure cell and we are waiting to see what happens with that. The next step I suppose would be to add the Queen excluder and the first honey super, but I don’t think we’ll be ready for that for awhile.
@Deb – I hate doughnuts. But I like cool stuff. I have a feeling I wouldn’t be able to resist Voodoo doughnuts.
@Mama Randa – The bees are chocolate covered almonds. I piped on some yellow frosting stripes. then I piped on some black heads and stingers. Then I stuck some slivered almonds to the sides using the extra frosting.
The book suggested using black jellybeans, but that wouldn’t have been very tasty at all!
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super cute! went to Portland today and resisted the VooDoo doughnuts – this little bit of time gluten-free has me feeling better already so it was hard – but not as hard as i expected.
maybe one of these days we’ll actually get together like in real life or something
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Awesome! How did you make the bees?
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Those are beautiful!
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Heather Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Thank You Linda! They certainly lit up my husband’s face.
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OK, I have to look up half of those bee terms, but it sounds really cool. Keep the bee updates coming!
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Heather Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 7:15 am
A super is each box that contains frames inside. A supercedure cell is a Queen cell they have made to birth a new Queen if the old one is old. they’re going to try and dethrone the Queen basically.
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Those are the second cutest cupcakes I ever seen! (First cutest are your monster cupcakes.)
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Heather Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 9:43 am
LOL! Thanks Colleen!
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ok, so I thought this was the best recipe I could find out there for gluten free devil’s food cupcakes.. ummmm I think you need to check your measurements that you listed.. I went to whole foods and spent 40 bucks on all the ingredients.. especially expensive is the xanthan gum which in your recipe you call for a 3/4 cup… let me just tell ya, the first batch turned out awful… I think you probably meant 3/4 of a teaspoon or table spoon..
Totally disappointed… wasted a good amount of expensive ingredients.. ended up going with a different recipe from a different blog that turned out great.
Please correct the amounts on your recipes.. your cupcakes look great.. would like to try them again..
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Heather Reply:
November 6th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Oh Aly,
I can’t even BEGIN to tell you how embarrassed I am! I am so, so, SO sorry.
I have corrected the recipe, and I do hope you will try again. I understand how expensive gluten free ingredients can be. If you do try again, let me know how they turn out.
I’ve edited a few other parts as well. Like the baking time. It seems that I’ve learned A LOT about gluten free baking since I posted this and will be going back and checking ALL of my recipes. Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention.
Again, I apologize.
Heather
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