Simplest Method to Prepare Delicious Vickys Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF

Vickys Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF.

You can have Vickys Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vickys Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF

1. It's 200 g of gluten-free / plain flour.
2. It's 30 g of cocoa powder.
3. Prepare 1/4 tsp of xanthan gum if using gluten-free flour.
4. It's 150 g of granulated sugar.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of baking powder.
6. You need 180-200 ml of light coconut milk.
7. You need 1/4 tsp of baking soda / bicarb.
8. It's 1/2 of a ripe avocado, mashed well.
9. You need 2 tsp of cider vinegar.
10. Prepare 60 g of sunflower spread / butter, melted.
11. You need as needed of cherry jam.
12. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
13. You need 175 g of icing sugar.
14. You need 70 g of gold foil Stork block margarine.
15. It's 1 tbsp of light coconut milk.
16. Prepare of pink food dye.
17. You need 12 of whole fresh cherries to garnish.

Vickys Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF directions

1. Preheat the oven to gas 6 / 200C / 400F and line a 12 hole cupcake tin with paper cases.
2. Mix the flour, xanthan gum, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and baking soda together well in a bowl.
3. Add the coconut milk, sunflower spread, vinegar, vanilla and avocado and mix the batter smooth.
4. Divide evenly between the paper cases.
5. Bake for 18 - 24 minutes until well risen and cooked through. A toothpick test will show if they're done. Mine had an extra few minutes in the oven as I was on the phone and they cracked but nobody will notice under the buttercream!.
6. Let cool on a wire rack then use a cake plunger or a spoon to hollow out the middles.
7. Make the buttercream by creaming the Stork and icing sugar together until light then beating in the milk.
8. Spoon cherry jam into the holes.
9. Add the food dye to make the icing a nice shade of pink then spoon into a piping bag.
10. Swirl on top of each cupcake.
11. Decorate with a cherry - feel free to dip the cherries in some melted chocolate to make them a little bit more decadent.
12. Yummy!.