This weekend was cinco de mayo, which sounded like a good excuse to have a few people over for some beverages. My husband's birthday is also coming up, however we'll be out of town for it. So I pretended this was a mini birthday party for him too. In an attempt to counteract the margaritas I tried to keep the food paleo. This sounded a little tough when you're trying to celebrate, but I came across a few recipes for delicious cupcakes that sounded worth a shot! This turned out AMAZING! They tasted like normal cupcakes!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup coconut flour
- 4 eggs
- 2 egg whites
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 Tbsp almond butter
- 25 dates pitted and soaked in water for at least an hour
- coarse sea salt
Process:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Mix all ingredients (minus the dates and sea salt)
- Pour batter into lined muffin tins. I made about 14 cupcakes.
- Bake for 20 min.
- For the frosting, put soaked and pitted dates into a food processor and blend well.
- Frost cupcakes with pureed dates and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
