Gluten and dairy free cupcakes {recipe}

Having allergies is hard to deal with on a daily basis. You have to watch what your eating all the time. But is's even harder to find a dessert that you can have. My husband is allergic to gluten and gluten is in alot of the foods he would have had on a daily basis. I've been trying to perfect a recipe for a cupcake so he can have something nice every now and again. 

The cupcake is light and fluffy and tastes so yummy. It has been kid approved too which is a huge bonus.  It's also dairy free for those of you that have a dairy allergy. 

Recipe

5 oz gluten free self raising flour

4 oz sugar

3 medium eggs {separated}

3 fluid ounces of water

2 tablespoons of coca powder {optional}

Separate you eggs.

Beat you egg whites until they form stiff peaks. Put to one side.

Add the sugar and water to the egg yolks and mix until light and fluffy and pale in colour.

Sift you flour into you egg yolk mixture and fold in.

Add you egg whites to the mixture and fold in gently, keeping as much as the air as possible.

The mixture will be more like a batter. It's quite loose. Don't worry. It's meant to be.

Divide your mixture into cupcake cases and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 190'C.
Allow to cool and decorate with the buttercream icing.

Buttercream

125g margarine

3tbsp vanilla extract

650g icing sugar

coca powder {opt}

Beat the margarine for about 5 minutes. Don't cut on this. You really need to beat the margarine until it's pale and creamy.

Add half of the icing sugar and mix.

Add the Vanilla. Mix until it is absorbed into the mixture.

Add the milk if you are using it now. {leave out if making dairy free} Mix until it is absorbed.

Add the remaining icing sugar and mix for a further 5 minutes. The longer you mix it the better you results will be.

I hope you enjoy these little beauties as much as we have. I've been baking them at least once a week and I don't think that's going to stop anytime soon.

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Health and Fitness Friday.

It's my favourite post of the week again.

Linking up with Jen for Health and Fitness Friday.

Fitness

Friday was Beach Body Bootcamp day. I love this workout. It's pushes me the the edge of nearly giving up but I love it and I know that I can't. I'm having a little trouble with my tricep dips. I can't do them. Our trainer brings out this huge tractor tyre and I hate that thing. I've been known to give it a good kick when I'm finished my reps. It hurts me so bad to do them. And not like "I feel the burn" pain. It's more like" Stop putting us through the ring of hell" pain. I my need to do some stretching in that area.

Jen this is for you. I too have baled on the squat challenge. Same reasons as you. I need to keep my legs strong and fresh. I need to get more runs in. And I'm doing plenty of leg work in Beach Body Bootcamp.

In case any of you want to try it, this is the 30 day squat challenge.

Good Luck!!!

Saturday I headed to limerick for the Pieta House, Darkness into Light 5k. It was AMAZING. You can read all about that here. I ran it in 33 minutes which is a whole two minutes faster than my last race. New PR for me!! Woo hoo! Now to beat it. Ha! 

Monday I was back to Beach Body Bootcamp. I got to class earlier than normal or so I though but I turned out I was the only one there. No one else turned up. Just little old me and my army drill Sargent trainer. Turned out to be one of my best workouts. I had no where to hind. I had to give it 110%. I was still sore Wednesday.

The rest of the week sucked. Between Mother Nature forgetting to take her pills and giving me hailstone showers in May and my heating in my house being a pain in the ass, I got no run in. This has to change. NOW!!

Plan for the week

Friday : Beach Body Bootcamp 

Saturday : Run

Sunday : Cycle

Monday : Beach Body Bootcamp

Tuesday : Run

Wednesday : Cycle 

Thursday : 

Health

I started cutting out sugar in my diet and I'm weaning myself off bit by bit. Let me tell you it's not pretty. I'm pretty sure I'm acting like a crack head looking for her fix. Not a great comparison but that's how it feels. I made a new cake this week. It's a Gluten-free,Wheat-free,Yeast-free,Dairy free Dark chocolate and buttercream cake. I made it for my cousin for her 30th birthday. She loved it and it didn't taste all that bad either.

That's it for me this week.

Happy Friday peeps!!

Gluten free, Wheat free, Yeast free, Dairy free - Dark chocolate and Butter-cream cake

My cousin turned 30 last week. Sssh! Don't tell anyone.

As a gift to her I offered to bake her a birthday cake.

Simple enough you would think.

The thing about this lady is that her diet HAS to be Gluten, wheat, yeast and dairy FREE.

After a bit of research and help from the lovely ladies over at the Irish Parenting Bloggers group I decided to go for this.

A chocolate sponge with buttercream filling covered with melted dark chocolate.

What you'll need:

125g/5oz sugar

6tbsp Sunflower oil

1tbsp Vanilla Extract

1/2 Ripe Banana

150g/6oz Gluten free self raising flour

1tsp of cocoa powder

4tbsp Water

1. Lightly oil or grease proof line a 7" round cake tin.

2. In a bowl, beat together the sugar oil and vanilla.

3. Peel and mash half a ripe banana. Beat it into the sugar mixture.

4. Add the flour, cocoa powder and water and mix well.

5. Pour into you prepared tin and smooth the top.

6. Bake in a preheated oven at 190c/fan170C for 35 minutes.

7. Coll on a wire rack.

The above ingredients are enough to make one sponge. The recipe told me to cut the sponge in half but it didn't rise enough. I baked another one and sandwiched them together with butter cream.

Butter cream recipe.

125g margarine

3tbsp vanilla extract

650g icing sugar

3 tbsp milk (opt)

1. beat the margarine for about 5 minutes. Don't cut on this. You really need to beat the margarine until it's pale and creamy.

2. Add half of the icing sugar and mix.

3. Add the Vanilla. Mix until it is absorbed into the mixture.

4. Add the milk if you are using it now. Mix until it is absorbed.

5. Add the remaining icing sugar and mix for a further 5 minutes. The longer you mix it the better you results will be.

And here is the finished product.

She loved it and it tasted fantastic. 

Her boyfriend didn't even know it was made for her special diet.

Not bad for my first special diet bake.