Gluten Free Berry Muffins

I love experimenting with gluten free flours. This is a different recipe again from the gluten free Vanilla Cupcakes and moist Chocolate Cupcakes. I was really stoked as Miss 2 kept asking for more of the mini ones and her playdate didn’t notice they were gluten free!

Like most gluten free baking, these are best served same (or next day); I free flow the rest in the freezer and pull them out as needed.

Ingredients

Group 1

• 1 cup hot water
• 1/2 cup neutral vegetable oil (like Rice Bran oil)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Generous pinch ground cinnamon

Group 2

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup superfine white rice flour
• 1/2 cup garbanzo flour (also called chickpea flour)
• 1/4 cup oat flour
• 1T sweet (glutinous) rice flour
• 1/4 cup cornstarch (cornflour)
• 1/2 tsp guar gum
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2T Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp salt

Other ingredients

• 1/3 – 1/2 cup frozen berries
  • I recommend raspberries and blueberries.
• Raw unrefined coconut sugar

Allergies: dairy free, soy free, gluten free, nut free.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180’C.
2. Whisk together the ingredients in Group 1. This helps to aerate the mix. You can use a stick blender or I used the food processor (with a plastic mixing attachment, not a metal cutting blade!).
3. Sift together the ingredients in Group 2.
4. Mix the combined dry ingredients into the whisked liquid.
5. Prepare the frozen berries and mix in gently.
   • Raspberries crush really easily into tiny teardrops (which provide a pretty pink speckled effect when baked); blueberries are already a good size; boysenberries are large enough to need cutting in half.
6. Pour into cupcake / muffin trays.
   • I made 6 large and 12 mini cupcakes.
7. Preheat the oven to 180’C. The mixture will thicken slightly while the oven heats.
   • The mix will appear very runny compared to a gluten mix – the rice flour and cornstarch will cause it to thicken as it cooks.
8. Bake at 180’c for approx. 25-35 mins or until cooked.
   • I found the mini muffins took 25 mins and the normal ones took 35 mins.

Icing 

I liked these with dusted with coconut sugar. I pulled them out of the oven after approx. 15 minutes (once they had risen), dusted with coconut sugar, and then placed back in the oven to finish baking.

I also have recipes for other icings that don’t use any artificial colours, glycerin, additives etc.

• Pink icing (fruity)
• White icing (peppermint)
• Chocolate buttercream (can be dairy free)