So TGBBO Week 5: Free From, quite a challenge as I have never really experimented with substitute ingredients before, but my first thought when watching was ‘why is nobody using banana’ so I thought this is what I would do. I have made
Free From Sugar Banana Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting
and here is how:
Ingredients
- 150g of Sugar
- 4tbsp of Honey
- 1tsp of Baking Powder
- 1/2tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda
- 150g of Flour
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Banana
- 2tbsp of Nutella
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Method
- Start by preheating the oven to 180C (fan) and putting your cupcakes cases into the tin
- Then mix the sugar and the honey together
- Sieve in the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda in to the mixture and combine thoroughly
- Add the eggs and mix until your cake batter is smooth
- Finally mash your banana and stir in
- The pour evenly into your cupcake cases
- Bake in the oven for 14-15 minutes (I found that the cakes went a little darker than normal)
- Allow to cool
- Once cool you can prepare the frosting by combining the remaining butter and nutella
- Whisk until smooth and use a palette knife or icing bag to decorate your cupcakes
- Then enjoy!
Note: This recipe makes 12 cupcakes
They actually came out really well and I feel like I proved to myself that I am actually a good baker and can experiment without completely screwing things up, they tasted pretty much similar to normal banana cupcakes with a honey aroma so I take TGBBO Week 5: Free From as a success!
Do you have any ‘free from’ recipes, if so, please share them below!
So next weeks task is Pastry probably the one I am dreading most, wish me luck…
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