My First Try with Coconut Flour - Birthday Cupcakes

Looking through all the various blogs about coconut flour I was a bit dismayed to actually cook with it. There were so many posts about it not turning out. I continually read how you have to be so exacting in your measurements or you can screw everything up.

Yet, I was also excited. Coconut flour is almost twenty dollars cheaper then almond flour (for a 5lb bag). You also use a lot less of it! I had to at least give it a shot. I am so glad that I did!

I decided that I would bake J cupcakes that I got from the Power Hungry's blog.

I planned on making the cupcakes during our normal Saturday cooking - a few hours before his family party. If anything went wrong there would be no time to fix it. I decided I could deal with that. My kids would eat (or not) whatever I created and more then likely be fine with that. As for the rest of my family - they think we eat weird and gross anyway.

My first oh no moment - I forgot to take the eggs out so that they would be room temperature. How would cold eggs effect the binding process? I put them in anyway.

I ended up four times the recipe. I wanted enough to have for dessert the rest of the week - the recipe only proclaimed to serve 8 and we had over that number headed to our house.

Everything turned out fabulous! These were not just amazing Paleo cupcakes - they were amazing cupcakes period. They did not taste like coconut at all - even with the coconut flour and coconut milk. They taste more like honey - sweet and dense. We ended up making 24 cupcakes out of the batter - but they were medium to small in size.

The cupcakes we served at J's party were 'frosted' with melted chocolate chips - the same batch that we used to dip the fruit in. They were a hit! All the kids loved them. My finicky nephew eat his right up. Even grandma and my sister eat theirs and said they weren't bad. We have plans to make these again with our Christmas cooking.