Gluten Free Find’s Gluten Free Dairy Free Berry-full Cupcakes
55Piggies! It is DAY 12 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and we continue to celebrate our 7-QT KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with these incredible gluten free, dairy free berry-full cupcakes from one of my favourite people, Lisa Cantkier, and her fabulous new website, Gluten Free Find. This amazing gluten-free directory is like an “A to Z of everything gluten-free" in Canada and the U.S. You can find a wealth of information there: nutritionists and dieticians, manufacturers and distributors, restaurants, bars and cafes, travel hotels and resorts, special deals to save you money, recipes, cookbooks, and the list goes on and on.
This gluten free portal is getting more comprehensive every day, and best of all, it is free -- there is no registration required. What I love about this website is that it is focused on whole foods and healthy living, and is super easy to navigate. Just click on a city, then click on a category! Easy! Gluten Free Find is a member of the Canadian Celiac Association and the Celiac Sprue Association, and a proud supporter of the Celiac Disease Foundation. The Gluten Free Find blog provides healthy gluten free information, interviews, reviews, recipes and more. Check out the gluten-free recipe of the week by contributing featured food bloggers such as Ricki Heller, Maggie Savage, Amie Valpone and me! I cannot believe this website has only been live for 4 months! Lisa and her team have achieved a LOT, and they are juuuust getting started. If this website is not on your gluten free radar - it needs to be! Gluten Free Find has already been featured on television and many top blogs, websites and magazines, including Martha Stewart Whole Living, Allerbling, AutismBeacon, Celiac Corner, Delight Gluten Free and many others.
So, who is this fabulous Lisa Cantkier? Lisa (OCT) holds a degree in psychology, a degree in education, and special education specialist certification. Her background includes extensive training and work experience with children with a variety of disabilities and special needs, both in and out of classroom settings -- primarily as a certified special education resource teacher, so she has a long history of helping others. Lisa was diagnosed with celiac disease as a toddler, and has a life-long association with the celiac and gluten-free community. Lisa has a passion for researching and writing about health issues, particularly with respect to celiac disease and healthy gluten-free living. She has been a guest on RogersTV daytime, and her writing and recipes have been published in many blogs, websites and magazines, including Martha Stewart’s Whole Living, Best Health Magazine, ChicGalleria.com, Easy Eats Magazine, Foodista, Gluten-Free Living Magazine, TVOParents, Viva Magazine, and many others.
This is probably why Lisa and I hit if off like sisters from the first moment we spoke to each other! Lisa called to interview me and I fell in love with her instantly. Her love for her husband and two sons was bursting through every story she told me, and her passion for social service was so similar to my own. My mother has worked as a special needs teacher and I have worked in disability services for almost twenty years. There is an indescribable, unspoken affinity amongst those who work in the disability field, not dissimilar to the commeraderie I have experienced in the food allergic community. I feel like we were destined to know each other. Lisa is one of the most caring, generous, thoughtful people I have "never met"! LOL! She just wants to help others, so I will do anything I can to help her. I dream of the day when I can give her and her hubby Nathan a big hug in person and discover all of the other things we all have in common!
Please check out Gluten Free Find, and support Lisa's dream of sharing every single gluten-free company and resource in Canada and North America! Lisa has some exciting projects brewing in the future too. She has teamed up with Kathy Smart, bestselling cookbook author, chef, nutritionist and gluten-free TV show host, to work on a gluten-free publication due for release in May 2012. Look out for that!
Lisa, thank you for sharing these berry-full cupcakes! Do NOT be put off by the seemingly involved instructions. These delicious little gems are super easy and are berry berry berry good! I almost died when I bit into the first one, and then thought I had been delivered to piggy heaven after the second. Yes! I admit, I devoured FOUR in one sitting on the weekend with some friends! We were all berry berry happy.
Lisa, thank you for sharing this berry wonderful recipe. I love you.
These berry delicious cupcakes were featured in Martha Stewart's Whole Living.com
Be sure to check out Lisa Cantkier's fabulous gluten-free directory Gluten Free Find.
Follow Gluten Free Find on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.
Gluten Free Find’s Gluten Free Dairy Free Berry-full Cupcakes
- Ingredients for cupcakes:
- 2 cups of all-purpose gluten-free flour
- 1 cup maple syrup
- 1 cup of rice milk mixed with 1 Tbsp of lemon juice mixed in well
- ½ cup filtered water
- 1/3 cup grapeseed oil
- 2 eggs or egg replacers
- 1 Tbsp natural vanilla extract
- 1 tsp Celtic sea salt
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp gluten free baking powder
- Ingredients for berry-full filling:
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 2 cups fresh blackberries
- 2 cups fresh strawberries
- ¾ cup pure maple syrup
- Preheat oven to 180 / 350° F.
- Wash berries. Set aside enough berries in a bowl (from each variety) to decorate your cupcakes later.
- Now make the berry filling by placing the remainder of the berries in a large bowl and mashing them. You can use a potato masher or a blender. With a blender, you only need to pulse a few times (to keep the filling chunky) and add the maple syrup to the filling and stir through. We'll come back for the filling later!
- Now, let's make the cupcakes!
- Mix the liquid ingredients (milk, oil, vanilla, eggs, water, maple syrup) in your stand mixer on a low speed until well combined.
- Mix in the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt) and combine on a medium speed until mixed well.
- Line a standard muffin tray with cupcake cups.
- Pour cupcake mixture into cups (fill 1/3 of each cup).
- Then add about 1 ½ teaspoons of your filling to each cup (on top).
- After that, cover the filling with your cupcake mixture until cup is ¾ full.
- Bake in the oven for about 25-30 minutes.
- Test the cupcakes with a toothpick at 25 minutes and if it comes out clean, then they are ready. Otherwise, you can bake for about another 3-5 minutes.
- Let your cupcakes cool.
- Take about one cup of the filling and blend until smooth.
- Then take a frosting bag and put this liquid filling inside the bag.
- Use the bag to very slowly insert 1 or 2 teaspoons (depending on your sweet tooth) of liquid inside from the top of the cupcake. This adds a nice extra pop of flavour to each cupcake.
- Frost your cupcakes with whatever type of frosting suits your fancy. Very little frosting is needed because of the fruit and sweet maple syrup.
- Then add some of the berries you put aside to decorate the top of each cupcake to your liking.
- *These cupcakes can also be enjoyed as delicious, moist muffins without the icing, filling, and decorative toppings
- Makes approximately 1 ½ Dozen cupcakes
These berry delicious cupcakes were featured in Martha Stewart's Whole Living.Com
Be sure to check out Lisa Cantkier's fabulous gluten-free directory Gluten Free Find.
Follow Gluten Free Find on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.
Piggy Cooking Tips
Adding flour into the food processor when mixing
I recommend using a food processor to make a lot of my batters. However, adding flours into the mixture can be time consuming and messy if you have to take the lid off every time you want to add something. In addition to this, the opening of the top if often a lot smaller than the width of a standard cup measurer and it is difficult to get the flours in evenly without losing a lot of it and making a mess. A quick trick to make this easer is to create a funnel with some parchment (baking) paper. Place this funnel into the feeding tube and this will allow the flours to slide in slowly and evenly.
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Piggy Grunts!
Add Your Grunthow do i spell grunt? really? my brain must not be working due to a severe shortage of cupcakes. i should get on that. stat.
LOL! Sorry…I can’t help you…
My head is berry full of these cupcakes too :)
LOL! ENJOY!
In my opinion you can’t go wrong with berries or maple syrup. Thanks for sharing your lovely recipe with us, Lisa.
I agree!
You cannot go wrong with berries and maple syrup! SOOOO good.
Lisa, I have learned so much through Gluten Free Find and am thrilled with your success.
I continue to be inspired with your yummy recipe creations. How apropos to use maple syrup at this time of year since the fresh Ontario maple syrup is now flowing freely - and such a good source of some basic nutrients such as calcium and iron. Looking forward to more recipes.
Thanks for taking the time to comment Lois.
Isn’t Lisa’s website amazing?!
Gluten Free Find Rocks! Awesome site and easy to use directory with great options! Thanks and keep up the great work guys!!
Isn’t it great?!
I will look forward to it growing and growing!
Wonderful for all of us!
YUUUUUUMY! That cupcake looks scrumptious… time to get out the Kitchen Aid and bake up some supreme yummy-ness! Thanks, Lisa!!!
Someone say cupcakes? Perfect! Can’t wait to dive into this recipe snout first. Have decided to just let your website give me my next idea of what to bake when I click on and it’s all so perfectly right there.
LOL! I LOVE that idea!
Make these! They are SOOOO good!
Lisa!
Yum! And look beautiful! Maybe I’ll whip some up for a baby shower this weekend! Thank you!
Sarah
Sarah!
These are SOOOO good!!!!
Can’t wait to hear what you think :)
Great recipe, and perfect for Spring! Thanks for sharing Lisa here Tess. I loved reading and learning more about her :) By the way Tess, Did you make the vegan version of these? Would love to know how they turned out! Did you use the egg replacer? Thanks!
Maggie,
I made the recipe exactly as written to remain true to Lisa’s recipe.
But I will make another vegan batch when I get back from Chicago.
I will report back!
Thank you Maggie, I’d love to hear how a vegan version turns out!
I love the fact that Gluten Free Find.Com is using pure maple syrup with berries- such a wonderful flavour combination!
Awesome!
Thanks Kathy! Hmm, there’s someone else I know that uses maple syrup quite a bit in their recipes, do you know who?
LOVE that you have teamed up with Lisa!
Can’t wait for your project to be finished :)
“I want one of these now!” ...said in a voice that is much like the gum chewing girl from Willy Wonka. I honestly just want to eat everything that is on this blog. I think this is Food Porn. ...Healthy Food Porn that is. Grunt Grunt!
LOL! Thanks Dean!
These cupcakes are AMAZING!
You will NOT be disappointed.
Wow - delicious! Fresh berries make everything better, and love that this recipe uses maple syrup. Healthy, beautiful, simple… and very Canadian!
Thank you Victoria, and yes great to experiment with maple syrup!
Such pretty cupcakes! Sounds like a lovely recipe, and so springlike! :)
Lisa, these must taste amazing! Love the “berry-full” filling. Cant’ wait to try these! Thanks so much for sharing.
Berry season is coming up - YAY! This recipe looks like a stand by for our family for the ENTIRE SUMMER! Rock on, Lisa! Another amazing recipe I am looking forward to trying - especially with the berry filling - I have never done that - so thrilled to expand my repertoire! Thank you Lisa!!!
How good are these Jen?!
I LOVE that you are making your way through the recipes! Me and my seven pounds thank you! LOL!
Tess, thank you for your kind words, glowing feature, and for including me in this incredible event alongside so many talented culinary experts like yourself! Lisa
Lisa, It is a pleasure to have you as a part of this event :)
It’s so true Tess, you’re a “tesstament” to it!!!
LOL! I LOVE that! xxx