TweetSo my husband and kids bought me a Kitchen Aid mixer for Mother’s Day. It was a complete surprise and one of the best gifts ever — I’ve wanted one for I don’t know how long.
I finally had the time to take it out the other day, and the first thing I made in it was Cybele Pascal’schocolate cupcakes for Ava.
If you aren’t familiar with Pascal, you need to be. I saw her in Baltimore at the FAAN conferenceand brought home her cupcake recipe. The cupcakes and icing are free of the top eight allergens and are delicious. I’m not even a big chocolate cake fan, and I ate four or five the first time I made them. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.
She also posts videos of herself making her concoctions here.
I made these for Ava’s birthday party last month and the kids (who don’t have allergies) ate them up.
I couldn’t find her exact chocolate cupcake recipe on her website, but here are some other cupcakes. Oh, and her, basic gluten-free flour mix is great. Three ingredients. Mix it up and you have it when you need it.
If you don’t own it already, I like Pascal’s The Allergen-Free Baker’s Handbook. I’ve had a lot of success with the recipes from there. We’re grain-free at the moment, but I look forward to making her graham cracker recipe again! Congrats on the mixer!
If you can believe it, I don’t own any allergen-free cookbooks! I’ve had much success finding stuff on the internet or just adapting recipes I already had. But meeting Pascal in Baltimore was awesome, so I could probably be talked in to buying her book. Which recipes do you recommend? (Other than the graham cracker.)