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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Cupcakes

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Cupcakes | Healthy Helper Delicious vegan chocolate cupcakes decorated to the likeness of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer! The ULTIMATE holiday treat to make for your friends and family. Vegan, gluten-free, and naturally sweetened.
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Ingredients

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  • For cupcakes:
  • 1 cup pitted dates
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup gluten-free oat flour
  • ¼ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp vanilla bean powder
  • 1/4 cup almond milk
  • 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
  • For decorations:
  • vegan chocolate frosting
  • mini shortbread cookies
  • small graham cracker sticks or mini chocolate biscuits
  • regular sized chocolate chips
  • vegan peanut butter or chocolate covered pretzels
  • goji berries

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
  2. Combine the dates and water in a food processor or blender.
  3. Blend till smooth.
  4. Add the flour, baking powder, vanilla powder, and milk.
  5. Process to combine.
  6. Pour batter into a medium mixing bowl and fold in chocolate chips. Mix until evenly combined.
  7. Divide the batter into 7 aluminum muffin tins.
  8. Bake for about 20 minutes at 350F, or until a knife comes out cleanly from the middle of the muffins.
  9. Cool muffins for about 5 minutes.
  10. Frost cupcakes once cool and assemble the Rudolph face with a mini shortbread cookie for the nose, two mini chocolate biscuits as the eyes, and two peanut butter covered pretzels as the antlers. Finish the cupcakes by adding a small dot of frosting on the nose so that a goji berry with stick and doing the same on the two biscuit eyes so the chocolate chips will stick.

Notes

The cupcakes themselves are gluten-free…the toppings may not be.

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