Spooky Cupcakes

Ingredients

1/2 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup rice flour
1 cup cocoa, sifted
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp xanthan gum (2 1/4 tsp of guar gum if corn is to be avoided)
3/4 cup salted butter, room temperature (if you use unsalted, add 1/2 tsp salt to the dry ingredients)
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
2 egg yolks
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp orange extract (if desired)
1 1/2 cups buttermilk

Instructions

1 – Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

2 – Line your muffin pan with paper liners or grease each cup if not using decorative paper liners.

3 – Sift the three flours together.

4 – Add cocoa, xanthan gum, baking powder, and baking soda to the flours and whisk together in a medium bowl.

5 – Beat the butter until creamy.

6 – Slowly add the brown sugar and the granulated sugar; whip until fluffy.

7 – Add the eggs and the egg yolks one at a time. Add the vanilla. Turn the mixer to low and alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk.

8. Spoon batter into 24 muffin cups. Bake 15-20 minutes or until the cupcakes test done.

9. Frost with your favorite flavor of frosting. A good choice would be orange flavored frosting, but any kind of frosting would work fine.