Junely, where did you get a billion little outfits??
Ande- can I get that gf chai cupcake recipe???
Junely! Cute smibblies!
Fen: Recipe:
GF Muffins (Chai Spiced Version)
Muffin Base:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp GF baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp Xanthan Gum
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 c plain yog(h)urt
1/2 c milk
2 c gluten-free flour of choice (a mixture of rice, potato and tapioca works well)
Chai Spices:
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground green cardamom ('normal' cardamom)
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/8 tsp ground allspice (or ground star anise, if you can get it)
1/8 or so tsp finely ground black pepper
pinch ground cloves
Mix the spices with the sugar.
Whip the butter with an electric whisk/mixer to break it up. Add the spiced sugar and whip again. Add eggs 1 at a time, whip again until fluffy. Add vanilla, baking powder, salt, xanthan gum, lemon juice, and yoghurt. Whip again.
Fold in half the flour and half the milk. Repeat, making sure not to overmix. The batter is quite sticky because of the xanthan gum, just so you don't worry about that!
Spoon the batter into large muffin cases and bake at 375F/180C for about 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Makes 12.
I also do these with black cardamom and cinnamon - 1/2 tsp black cardamom and 2 tsp cinnamon instead of the chai spices.
The frosting is based on the frosting N1gella Laws0n uses for her guinness cake -
300 g full-fat cream cheese (srsly, don't use low-fat or you end up with liquid frosting)
150 g powdered sugar
125 ml double cream
Mix the cream cheese with the powdered sugar and then add double cream and whip to spreadable consistency. I shall be adding either 1 tsp cinnamon and the seeds from a vanilla pod to this OR some dulce de leche... I haven't decided yet.
I may have posted
this before, but I'm posting it again, just because it deserves it.
I have a dear friend who's a Mormon and will freakin' LOVE this.
I'm sending it to her. Nao.
ETA: I'm sure lots of my other friends will like it, too, it's just that it's a riff on an LDS commercial...
I have to go to a party tonight
*coughs gently towards 10s to share the plague*