Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- pinch sea salt
- 1 cup organic sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract not immitation
- 1 stick Earth Balance DF Butter room temperature
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 1/2 cup Silk unsweetened Cashew Milk
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 tsp cotton candy flavoring
- 1/2 cup Sprinkles I used the brand “Candyfetti ” cupcake flavor
Cotton Candy Buttercream
- 1 stick softened Earth Balance or butter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/8 tsp cotton candy flavoring
- pink and blue food coloring
- 2 tbsp cashew milk ( silk unsweetened )
- 4 cups sifted powdered sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 325° Line cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
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Sift your flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl, and set aside.
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In a large bowl cream together your butter and sugar.
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Now add in your eggs and mix again.
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Next gently mix in your cotton candy flavoring, vanilla, apple cider vinegar, and cashew milk.
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Slowly pour your flour mix into the wet ingredients. Mixing between each addition. Don’ over mix.
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Gently fold in your Candyfetti Sprinkles.
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Now using a large cookie scoop, scoop batter into each cupcake liner.
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Bake for approximately 17 to 19 minutes, check with a toothpick. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Cotton Candy Buttercream
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In a large bowl cream your butter until light and fluffy, about a minute.
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Add in Vanilla Extract and Cotton Candy Flavoring and mix again.
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Add in your sifted powdered sugar in increments, mixing after each time. Continue to mix until fluffy and adding your cashew milk as you need.
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Divide the buttercream into two bowls.
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Add blue food coloring to one bowl, and pink in the other. You only need one to two drops. Mix very well.
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Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Just until slightly chilled.
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Scoop your blue buttercream into one piping bag and your pink into another. Pipe onto your cupcakes and top with more sprinkles. Enjoy 🙂
- Prep Time: 30
- Cook Time: 19
- Category: american
- Method: bake
- Cuisine: dessert
