Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes

Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes with Mini Chocolate Chips and Creamy Icing- So easy you will make them again and again!This page contains affiliate links. As always I only support products I use and love. By using these links you are supporting My Gluten Free Miami at no cost to you. Thank you!

The Cupcake Dilemma

Before being diagnosed with Celiac I was never a huge cake person, but after I started craving cupcakes like crazy. I’m guessing this is because I could no longer just go to the store and get one. When I was pregnant it was the worse. I had a huge meltdown one night (pregnancy hormones!) and was so disappointed when all the recipes I found required all kind of ingredients that I didn’t have or couldn’t find.

The search for a good gluten free cupcake was daunting.

There was one cupcake shop at the time that sold a gluten free vegan cupcake, so my husband and I went. They were eh. The cake was dense and the icing way to sweet. While I have since found a couple good gluten free cupcakes in Miami, with the recipe I developed, it is just as easy to make my own. You could even mix up several batches of the dry ingredients for these gluten free chocolate cupcakes and store in ziplocs so you have your own cake mix ready to go at a moments notice!

Now what are birthday cupcakes without Ice Cream? Go Dairy Free has the perfect Dairy Free Chocolate Chip Ice Cream recipe. It will be great with these cupcakes!

Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes

I’m sure you’re wondering why I have been holding out on such an amazingly delicious, easy gluten free chocolate cupcake for so long. I was just waiting for the right opportunity, and it just so happens that Sharon over at What the Fork has a birthday this week! In order to celebrate a bunch of us got together to share with you our favorite cake recipes AND a giveaway!

How awesome is that? Great cake recipes and a chance to win a Kitchen Aide Mixer? I am in love with my mixer. If there was a fire, there is a chance I might grab it.

Not only are we giving away an awesome mixer, it’s going to come with a $100.00 gift certificate to Sweetapolita and a prize package from Rodelle Vanilla. You will be all set to get some major baking done!!

So check out all these great recipes, and be sure to enter below!

Recipe Notes

You know I can’t leave you without a couple of recipe notes for these gluten free chocolate cupcakes. It just wouldn’t be fair.

These cupcakes are dairy free (Yay!),

However, I did use cream cheese icing. You can use a dairy free cream cheese and you are good to go!

I’m in love with GF Jules.

You can get a sample for only $5.00 or order a starter kit that has all kinds of goodies. Love to bake? Order her flour in bulk!

The key to gluten free baking is an awesome gluten free flour. You can use whatever your favorite Gluten Free Blend is, just avoid bean based for the cupcakes. No one wants to eat a cupcake that tastes like beans.

The Espresso

Feel free to leave out the instant espresso, I just love how it develops a rich, chocolate flavor, but it is optional.

Don’t forget to visit all the other cake recipes and enter to win!

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Print Recipe

5 from 1 vote

Cupcakes

Servings: 12 Cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 1 cup Gluten Free Flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon gluten free baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup gluten free cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon gluten free espresso powder optional
• 1/4 cup gluten free mini chocolate chips I use Enjoy Life- gluten and dairy free!
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream Cheese Icing

• 1 8 oz package softened cream cheese regular or dairy free
• 1 cup powder sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

• Mix together dry ingredients.
• Add wet ingredients and stir until well combined.
• Fold in chocolate chips.
• Using a quarter cup measuring cup, spoon into prepared baking dish.
• Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool completely.
• Meanwhile, beat together cream cheese, powder sugar and vanilla.
• Frost cooled cupcakes and enjoy!