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Almond Flour Cupcakes (Keto, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)

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These Almond Flour Cupcakes are moist, fluffy, and healthy vanilla cupcakes made with almond flour.

Bonus, these are keto cupcakes 100% sugar-free and dairy-free with only 3 grams of net carbs per serving.

It’s that time of the year when we should start practicing our cupcakes skills for Christmas, right?

After my keto lemon cupcakes, here are vanilla keto cupcakes made with the most delicious buttercream frosting and sugar-free sprinkles for a touch of color.

Gluten free Almond Flour Cupcakes

How To Make Almond Flour Cupcakes

There’s nothing easier than making these delicious almond flour gluten-free cupcakes! All you need are a few ingredients and some top tips to make these baked goods, moist and delicious.

Ingredients

The key to making delicious cupcakes with almond flour is to use ingredients at room temperature. Don’t use eggs or almond milk straight out from the fridge or the cupcakes comes out dense:

  • Blanched Almond Flour – This is not the same as almond meal. If you never baked with keto flours before, especially almond flour, you should know that almond meal is not the one to choose to make fluffy almond flour baked goods. Almond flour is a light, fine and golden flour made of blanched almond.
  • Granulated Sweetener – To keep this recipe keto-friendly, I used erythritol but any granulated sweetener works in the recipe. If you are looking for paleo cupcakes, use coconut sugar as a healthy swap.
  • Large Eggs – Not small, not medium but large eggs at room temperature. Eggs add the best fluffy texture to gluten-free cupcakes. Note that the recipe won’t work with egg replacers. Also, you must use eggs at room temperature, take them out from the fridge at least 30 minutes before making the recipe.
  • Unsweetened Almond Milk
  • Baking Powder – You can swap baking powder for baking soda. Double up the amount of called in the recipe.
  • Melted Coconut Oil – You can use butter too but the recipe won’t make gluten-free, dairy-free cupcakes anymore!
  • Vanilla Extract – yes, that’s one tablespoon! These are keto vanilla cupcakes and you want that vanilla flavor to pop!

Preheating Oven

Before you start the recipe, preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 12-hole muffin tin with lightly oiled cupcake paper liners. Set it aside.

Combine Ingredients

Now, in a mixing bowl add all the dry ingredients: almond flour, baking powder, and granulated sweetener. Whisk to evenly combine the dry ingredients together and avoid lumps.

In another bowl, whisk eggs, almond milk and melted coconut oil, and vanilla extract. Make sure that all ingredients are at the same temperature.

Now, stir the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients until a thick cupcake batter forms. Don’t expect a light runny batter like you sued to have when baking with flour.

Almond flour muffin, cupcakes, or almond flour bread batter always look thicker, gritty and that’s normal. Don’t thin out the batter.

Gluten Free Cupcake Recipe

Baking Cookies

Now, fill 12 cupcake paper cases with the batter – I used about 1/4 cup per cupcake.

Bake in the center rack of the preheated oven at 350°F (180°C) for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown on top. If the cupcake tops brown too fast, tent the muffin tray with a piece of foil to prevent the top from darkening.

Check the baking time by inserting a toothpick in the center of the cupcakes. It should come out dry with no crumbs.

Cooling down

Cool the cupcakes down on a cooling rack immediately after baking. Don’t cool down in the pan or they trap some moisture.

Cupcake Frosting

These keto vanilla cupcakes are even better with some frosting. You can make the keto buttercream frosting below or make my Keto Cream Cheese Frosting.

To make the frosting you need:

  • Softened butter or dairy-free butter if you don’t eat dairy. Some dairy-free butter blocks are made of coconut oil and are keto-friendly.
  • Powdered erythritol
  • Vanilla stevia drops – the reason I use stevia drops and powdered erythritol is to boost the sweetness of the frosting and avoid too much sugar alcohol sweetener. In fact, erythritol tends to cool down the batter, and sometimes, it splits the frosting. So it’s better to add only a small amount and balance sweetness with stevia drops.

Use the paddle attachment of your stand mixer to beat butter until creamy. Then, stir in the remaining ingredients. Taste and adjust sweetness if desired.

Pipe the frosting on top of the cupcakes once they are cooled.

Decorate with a pinch of sugar-free sprinkle for colors!

Storage Instructions

Store the cupcakes for up to 4 days in a cake box in the fridge.

Or, freeze the cupcakes in a zip-lock bag and thaw at room temperature the day before serving.

Keto Cupcakes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Swap Almond Flour For Coconut Flour?

No, you can never swap one for the other. Coconut flour contains 4 times more fiber than almond flour and it requires more eggs or liquid to make fluffy cupcakes.
Use this coconut flour cupcake recipe if you don’t have almond flour available.

Can I Save My Frosting That Split?

A frosting splits when there’s a large variation of temperature in the bowl. It can be that your almond milk or butter are too cold or you added more powdered sugar-free erythritol.
Erythritol decreases the temperature of the batter. You can fix a split frosting by adding warmer ingredients in the mix, more room temperature almond milk for example.
If it splits because the mixture is too hot, pop the bowl in the fridge.

Can I Add Cocoa Powder?

You can make keto chocolate cupcakes with this recipe. Decrease the almond flour to 2 cups and add 1/4 cup cocoa powder in the mixture and 1/3 cup chocolate chips.

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Gluten Free Vanilla Cupcakes

Almond Flour Cupcakes

3gNet Carbs
An easy Almond Flour Cupcake recipe with a moist vanilla crumb and delicious buttercream frosting. dairy-free, gluten-free, and keto-friendly.
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
Yield: 12 cupcakes
Serving Size: 1 cupcake
4.90 from 258 votes

Ingredients

  • 3 large Eggs
  • ½ cup Granulated Sweetener of Choice I used sugar-free erythritol (note1)
  • cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
  • cup Melted Coconut Oil (note 2)
  • 2 ½ cups Almond Flour
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract

Buttercream frosting

  • 6 ounces Softened Butter or dairy free butter
  • ½ teaspoon Vanilla Stevia Drops
  • 1/4-1/3 cup Powdered Erythritol I used erythritol
  • 1-2 tablespoons Heavy Cream or canned coconut cream for dairy-free

Decoration

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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Line a 12-hole cupcake/muffin pan with cupcake paper cases or grease mold with an oil spray if preferred. Set aside.
  • In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar-free sweetener of your choice, unsweetened almond milk, melted coconut oil, and vanilla extract. Make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature. If you are using cold eggs straight out of the fridge, they will solidify the coconut oil creating oil lumps. Otherwise, use butter to prevent this from happening.
  • Stir in baking powder and almond flour, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring gently incorporate the flour to avoid lumps.
  • Transfer the cupcake batter evenly into the 12-cupcake case. I used a mechanical ice cream scoop to be accurate and ensure that each cupcake has the same size (and so the same amount of carbs per serving).
  • Bake for 2225 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cupcakes comes out clean or with few to no crumbs on it.
  • Cool for 10 minutes in the cupcake pan, then gently transfer onto a cooling rack and cool for 30 minutes to 1 hour before eating. Be patient. They get the best texture at room temperature.

Storage

  • Store in an airtight box for up to 4 days at room temperature.
  • Can be frozen in airtight ziplock bags, preferably without the paper cup. Defrost the day before at room temperature. Can be toasted or rewarmed in an oven at 100°C/210°F.

Cupcake Buttercream Frosting

  • In a stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, beat softened butter until creamy.
  • Stir in stevia drops, powdered sweetener and add cream gradually until the frosting reach your favorite texture.
  • Taste and add more sweetener if needed.
  • Pipe on top of the cooled cupcakes and decorate with sugar-free sprinkles.

Notes

Note 1: Any granulated sweetener works in this recipe. To make keto cupcakes, I used sugar-free erythritol, but if you are not on a keto diet, coconut sugar is a healthy swap
Note 2: Melted butter or melted ghee works as well.
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Serving Size: 1 cupcake
Yield: 12 cupcakes
Serving: 1cupcakeCalories: 312.6kcal (16%)Carbohydrates: 5.5g (2%)Fiber: 2.5g (10%)Net Carbs: 3gProtein: 6.7g (13%)Fat: 30.8g (47%)Saturated Fat: 9.1g (57%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 6.6gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 48.2mg (16%)Sodium: 231.7mg (10%)Potassium: 25.9mg (1%)Sugar: 1g (1%)Vitamin A: 592.9IU (12%)Vitamin B12: 0.1µg (2%)Vitamin C: 0.1mgVitamin D: 0.3µg (2%)Calcium: 108.7mg (11%)Iron: 1.2mg (7%)Magnesium: 2.3mg (1%)Zinc: 0.2mg (1%)
Carine Claudepierre

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Carine Claudepierre

Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.

I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.

I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet

Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!

All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.

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    36 Thoughts On Almond Flour Cupcakes (Keto, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
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  1. 5 stars
    Could this be baked in a loaf pan instead of cupcake/muffin tin? I don’t have access to anything other than a countertop oven and my 12 cup pan is too big, but my loaf pan fits. If so, how long should it be baked for?

  2. Please tell me the equivalent of a cup in your recipes?
    I’m eager to try them.
    Thankyou.

  3. 5 stars
    Thank you for the delicious recipe. I had to make a couple swaps, based on what I had on hand.
    I used 1/3 cup agave instead of the 1/2 cup granulated sweetener. Because of the addition of liquid, I left out the 1/3 cup almond milk. Then at the last minute I panicked and added 1/4 cup powdered coconut milk in case the almond milk added richness. They were delicious! Do you think the almond milk would make them even better? Would you suggest adding more almond flour if I had 2/3 cup liquid (1/3 cup each of agave annd almond milk)?

  4. 5 stars
    Hi, great recipe and endless amounts of substitutions are possible with using different sugar/alternatives/oils/milks. I also made this with almond meal and they were absolutely amazing!, Moist and fluffy and delicious almond flavour! Also I was wondering if you could make a full cake with this recipe? Any idea what the cooking time would be if so? Thank you!

  5. 5 stars
    I just made these with my 5 year old daughter, she had so much fun! it was super easy to bake, sadly I didn’t put the oven temperature high enough so they took a little longer to cook once I realized my mistake ! We loved them once they were cooked and decorated with sprinkles and icing once cooled! Great fun !!

  6. I made this recipe two days ago and let me tell you I was so shocked they tasted so good. Even my mom and my sister, who are not so fan of the healthy baking, loved them. My mom kept asking for seconds lol. Super easy. Thank you for the recipe!!

  7. 5 stars
    Very yummy! I substituted coconut yogurt for the milk and added chocolat8e chip cookies. the recipe yielded 24 mini cupcakes. My kid loved it. Thank you for sharing this lovely recipe..

  8. 5 stars
    Great recipe, had to make dairy and gluten free cupcakes. Not worried about sugar so added normal gasp white sugar and rice bran oil as I didn’t have coconut oil. These were amazing! Thank you!

  9. If I wasn’t worried about making this dairy free, what percent cream do you think I should use to get the right moisture in these?

  10. I’ve recently started my sugar free journey and my baking projects have been hectic. I bought stevia extract since I wanted the pure thing but most recipes call for granulated sugar substitutes. I’m assuming recipes like this one can’t have the granulated sugar swapped put for stevia extract powder? Thanks!

  11. Could you please give you some input as to how to supplement a leavener or riser with out using baking powder, baking soda or yeast? I am familiar with and have done keto before but now using keto for my teen daughter who is allergic to any riser or yeast. We avoid all items that contains the above mentioned. Thank you

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