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Last Updated on October 16, 2019
My Little boy just turned 4 and last weekend was filled with food, family, friends and some tears.
On the night of the birthday party, my little guy decided he was ready to sleep in his own room. We have co-slept since he was out of the womb and I knew the day would come when he would be ready to have his own space. As I tucked him in that night and told him a silly bedtime story, it was bitter sweet.
I went downstair, wrapped my arms around my husband and cried. There is so much joy and pain in motherhood. I’m learning that being a mother is more than just giving unconditional love but teaching your children the skills to be successful in life and so that one day they can go out and blaze a trail of their own.
Witthout my Mother’s guidance I would never have started the dreams that one day became all of this.
I didn’t mean to let this post turn into something sad when truly it is all about joy and living and my Little guy’s request for chocolate cupcakes.
This recipe is out of this world and if food could taste like love, this would be it.
Paleo Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups Superfine Blanched Almond Flour
- 1/4 cup cocao powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup B grade maple syrup
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Frosting
- 1 cup palm Shortening
- 1/4 cup B grade maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a cupcake pan with 10 cupcake liners and set aside.
- In a medium bowl add the ingredients and mix with a spoon until completely combined.
- Pour the batter in to the cupcake liners and place in oven.
- Let cook for 15 to 18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and let cool.
- In mixing bowl add in the ingredients for the frosting and mix with a hand mixer.
- Frost the copycakes and enjoy!
Wow Kelly, I’m in love with the photos! The cupcakes look crazy delish too!
I’m obsessed with these pictures and this cupcake! And the frosting! What recipe did you use for it? Pretty sure I’m going to be thinking about it all night. Lucky for me I have all of the ingredients in my kitchen right now. 🙂
Just updated the recipe hun 🙂
These look delicious! Can’t wait to make them for a special time. I’m curious what you use for a frosting recipe?
Just added it to the recipe hun.
What is the frosting?
I just updated the recipe hun.
Made it last night and it came out awesome. I did pulse the almond flour in my small Magic Bullet to make it fine. Thank you for sharing this great recipe.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them Edith!
Hi again! I was asked to make it again and I was really hoping it came out perfect like the first time and just want you to know it did! I didn’t give you a rating the first time because I forgot but this recipe deserves a five! My family are Paleo lovers and chocolate is one of the things they didn’t want to give up. I bought your book from Amazon and glad I did. Keep up the great work!
Your pictures look soooooooooo good!
Thank you hun!
Wow!! I love this style of photography for you! These look amazing….I’ve got to make them soon 🙂
Thanks lady!
Just out of curiosity, do you prefer to make these with water or a type of milk? If milk, which one do you suggest? Thank you and yes, your pictures look beautiful!
I totally use water when remaking recipes since, well, I’m lazy like that. If I have milk, I will use raw milk since my husband does not like the taste of coconut. THanks for the compliment Kimberly.
Making these right now!
These look perfect for my daughters birthday next week! I can’t wait to try them.
Happy Birthday to her and I hope you all love it.
I made these yesterday for my son’s 4th birthday party 🙂 they were a hit! I managed to get 12 cubcakes out of the batter, and made two batches, and most of them were gone. I got great feedback from guests and they were surprised it was made with almond flour. They were fluffy and moist.
Just finished making these puppies and they are delicious! By far the best Paleo cupcake!!! Thank you for sharing…
Do you think if I just added orange food coloring to the frosting, they would turn out ok?
I don’t think you would see the color hun.
Hi there. I’m using this recipe for my diabetic daughter of 6 years. She absolutely loves it. Would you by any chance know what the carb count is for this recipe as I have to carb count for allowance per meal. Hope you can help.
I don’t hun. You can use this nutrional calculator to find out –> https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/myrecipe.aspx. I would recommend looking at low carb recipes hun
I want to make these soooo bad! My husband is alergic to almonds ( & walnuts, pecans, and pine nuts.) though. What could I use instead?
Ohhh… honestly you could try sunflower seeds hun. It might work.
Tigernut flour usually subs just fine for almond flour. I’m going to give it a go.
Would excluding the cocoa make vanilla-Ish cupcakes? Or should more vanilla be added?
I would add vanilla hun
Kelly!!! This recipe is wonderful and the story was so sweet and heartfelt. Brought me tears! I had almost the exact same experience when my son wanted to sleep in his own bed ????. Every once in awhile he will pop in and I’ll wake up sandwiched between my 5 and almost 2 year old and I just whisper..thank you…because what else can you say in a moment like that. Ahhh… Well it was his little sisters idea to make cupcakes (insert adorable 2 year old girl saying “make cake pees”) so I looked for a good review and these were the winner! Wow I am so glad I tried this recipe it is a keeper!
I didn’t have almond flour so I used oat flour and no maple syrup so I used raw honey. Turned out amazing! Thanks for the post!! ????
So glad it work for you hun 🙂
I’m not sure I did it right! Help! I made the cupcakes tonight and they don’t seem sweet. I used vegan butter and water. Is it normal? Also, I can not get palm shortening in time for our party so I used the vegan butter again, for the icing, not sure that’s good ether. Any ideas.
You can melt down some vegan chocolate chips and drizzle them over the cupcakes to help increase the sugar hun. I’ve never made them with vegan butter so I’m not sure what that would do to the recipe.
Can I make this in an 8 inch round cake pan instead of cupcakes?? Excited to make this!
yes but your cook time will change.
first time on your website and I just wanted to thank you for having a “print” button that gives you a clean (no ads) recipe to print. that is a rare treat in itself!
Happy to make your day hun!
In all my years of using recipes I found online, this is the first time I’ve felt compelled to write a review. These cupcakes are Ahhhmazing! I tried two other recipes I found on different sites before this one and neither one of them holds a candle to these. The frosting is delicious as well. The only changes I made were I used cacao powder instead of cocoa and I used butter instead of coconut oil in the frosting. Great recipe! Thanks so much for sharing!
So glad you enjoyed this Sasha! It’s one of my favorite also.
I am going to make your German chocolate cake, do I triple the recipe for
Chocolate cupcakes to get the three layers?
yes, I would triple it.
Can I substitute the almond flour for cashew nut flour as my son is unable to have almonds – allergic and coeliac
Hi Susie, yes, it should work well.