German Chocolate Cupcakes - Gluten Free/Grain Free/Sugar Free/Dairy Free

German Chocolate Cupcakes

I love German Chocolate cake, so when I found a  recipe for chocolate cupcakes using coconut flour, and figured I could substitute the butter with coconut oil and the milk with almond milk, it would give it even more of the coconut flavor to make it more like German Chocolate cake.  It turned out perfect, very yummy! 

One thing to note about recipes using coconut flour, it's very different than almond flour, you use very little of it and up the eggs to make the consistency right.

1/2 C coconut flour 

1/4 C coco powder

1/2 C sweetener (I used Swerve)

1/2 t baking soda

1/2 t cinnamon

1/2 C almond milk

5 eggs

1/2 C coconut oil 

1 t vanilla

Mix dry ingredients, making sure baking soda is evenly distributed (or you could get a nasty taste in one of the cupcakes).  Melt the coconut oil, but don't let it get hot enough to cook the eggs.  Combine the eggs and almond milk and pour into the dry ingredients while beating.  Slowly pour in the coconut oil and then the vanilla.

Line a muffin/cupcake tin with cupcake liners and lightly spray with coconut oil (or other cooking spray).  This batter is runnier than most cake batters, which made it tricky to pour, so I put half at a time into a measuring cup with pouring spout and used that to fill the cupcake liners.

Bake at 350 degrees for around 20 min or until a toothpick comes out clean.

* A note about sweeteners - I'm not sure why, but erythritol, which is what Swerve and some other sweeteners are made of, show zero calories in my calorie counter, but do show some counts for carbohydrates.  Not sure how that is even possible.  Also, most low carb diets don't count zero calorie sweeteners like erythritol at all, so when I use Swerve in my recipes, I calculate the calories and carbs without the sweetener.  If you need to add them for whatever diet you are on, just add in the calories from the label on whichever sweetener you use.

Makes a dozen cupcakes:  155 calories, 3.5 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams fiber without the frosting (I'll post that recipe tomorrow).