My first gluten-free baking adventure was successful! The bundt-turned-cupcakes turned out great, and were relatively easy to make. This baking gal does not survive complicated baking instructions; I live, and eat, by the philosophy that simplicity can taste delicious, too!
Using Ashley’s recipe, I only made two changes: no coconut flour (used an extra 2T of the rice flour instead – per her recommendation) , and no almond extract (used an extra 1/2t of Vanilla). The first was due to lack of supplies at WF, the second was due to forgetfulness at WF (oops).
All together, we have this:
Gluten-free, in disguise! You would have never known, so tricky.
For a simple topping, I combined some peppermint chocolate, peanut butter & almond milk. Use a little microwave magic, and voila! Frosting!
Peppermint Peanut butter Frosting
~1/4 c Natural Peanut Butter (+/- 1T)
~1/4 c Almond Milk
3 small squares (i.e. one “row”) of Chocolove Peppermint Chocolate (found at WF)
Break up the chocolate into small pieces; microwave for ~10 seconds. Add pb & almond milk, microwave an additional 15 seconds. Stir everything together – add pb if needed for smoother consistency.
D asked if I could make more to just “have around” – I’m totally on board with this idea.
I just saw a cupcake and started drooling. And peppermint PB frosting? Whoa brilliant.
And so easy! That’s the best part
Those look delish and I am very intrigued by the peppermint/chocolate/PB combo!
you know how happy this makes me!
Yum! I’m all about simplicity, too. The simpler, the better.
Peppermint and peanut butter, heh? You’re brave! And for the record…last time I made cookies to “just have around” they first of all stuck to the pan and then…we eated them all.
I cut out a recipe and instructions on how to make cake pops! I’m guessing you have seen them at starbucks? They are my next baking challenge
Def not gluten free but they look and sound amazing! yup yup yup. Maybe I’ll mail you some 
Peppermint and pb sounds like an interesting combo!
Cupcakes are so good!
HA…the trouble with ‘just having some around’ is that all of a sudden you don’t because those darn boys eat them all up.
The manfriend ALWAYS wants some choc chip cookies lying around, which would require me to bake them oh, approximately every.single.night. 
I want to make those lovely little bundts!
Ha, yes ma’am – the main reason we almost never bake anything around here! That, and I’m usually too lazy to clean it up
Definitely use this recipe – they were surprisingly fluffy and tasty!
Yay!! SO glad they worked!
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