Black Bottom Cup Cakes

[nancyrandall]

These cupcakes are good with out frosting because they have a cream cheese filling.

Cup cakes
3 cups flour
2 cups water
3 cups dextrose sugar (2 cups cane sugar)
1 egg
2/3 cup oil
2 tsp soda
2 tbsp vinegar
1/2 cup coco powder

Filling
8 oz cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
pinch salt
1 cup chocolate chips (I have not located any approved yet and I just leave them out)

fill cupcake liners 1/2 full of cup cake mixture. Drop spoon ful of cheese mixture into each.

Bake 350 degrees for 25-35 minutes
makes 32 cupcakes

[lisa]

Has anyone tried using unsweetened baking chocolate and adding dextrose or other approved sweeteners? I'm wondering if it would be too rich. If you wanted to make milk chocolate, would you then add whipping cream or would 2% be OK?

[jenferg]

Nancy- Thank you, thank you for the recipes! Jen F.

[Tammy]

We played with it one time several yrs ago. A friend of mine was determined to make it work.
After you melt the chocolate and add the dextrose, the chocolate will not set again. And if you add milk or cream or anything, it is just worse. So we then tried to add soy lecticin, (I was able to get some at work) which is what some candy lists in the ingredients to help it set. Was not a pretty site then, either. lol.

If you wanted to bake with it for the flavor, it would probably be fine, but don't try to pick it up with your fingers without making a real mess.

You could possibly take small pieces and "roll" it in the dextrose to coat it, but then you mostly get sweet and bitter tastes both.

[Nancy]

Sorry for the mistake. I have left the sugar out and added Dextrose in its place. It does not seem to be as important as the sugar in the cup cake. I make the cupcakes and freeze them. They do tend to crystalize on the top after being frozen. My son does not mind and they taste fine.

I also would love any chocolate recipe anyone figures out.
Nancy

[kerrynz]

Greetings

This is just a thought i haven't had them since i was a kid. But this stuff sets cocoa hard as in for making chocolate!

I will try it. But my question is< Can Hfi's have coconut oil,

All you need to make chocalate from this point is the ingredients and some nice molds, like little animals.

The info i've posted is just a snippet from seaching the web


Ingredients
(See Cook's Calculator at Epicurean.Com to convert cooking weights/temperature/volumes)
250g (9oz) Copha (a brand of solidified coconut oil)
4 cups of Rice Bubbles or similar puffed rice
3 tablespoons cocoa

Method
Melt Copha in a saucepan over a low heat or in a microwave oven
Mix dried ingredients. Mix with melted Copha until well combined.
Spoon mixture evenly into 24 paper patty containers. Set in the refrigerator.


What to do if you can't get Copha
Melt a 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips in a double boiler.(or microwave to melt).
Add 5 cups of rice crispies to melted chocolate, and stir to blend.
Scoop out into mini muffin cups. Let harden.
Copha

Copha is solidified coconut oil that will stay solid at room temperature. It comes in blocks or a cube wrapped like butter or dripping. It is white, but goes clear when melted.

It is basically coconut butter that has been hydrogenated to make it even more stable until deliberately melted, and to make it more resistant to going rancid (it's treated with a hydrogen gas that changes unsaturated fat bonds to saturated ones).

Copha is the brand name in Australia. Kremelta is the New Zealand version, and Palmin is the German version, both of which are the same as Copha except for the brand name.

Cooking Tips
Usually melted before being mixed in with other ingredients

Substitutes
Coconut butter OR 2 parts shortening or lard, with 1 part creamed coconut.

If you are outside of Australia and desperately looking for a substitute to make "Chocolate Crackles" (balls made of melted chocolate and Rice Bubbles, or what the rest of the world calls Rice Krispies), see the recipe section for a healthier version of Crackles that doesn't use Copha. Now, granted, when you're eating something like Chocolate Crackles, "healthy" isn't the point, so let's say instead a version that doesn't use Copha for when you can't get it.

Nutrition
You don't even want to think about how high it is in saturated fat and trans-fats.

Storage
Store in refrigerator.

Language Notes
Copha is a brand name, but probably taken from the Hindi word for coconut, which is "kophra".

Have fun
Kerryn

[lisa]

I recently got some 100% puffed rice from the local health food store. You could also use puffed millet if you can find it. I think my mom gets it at whole foods. It is a smaller "pellet" that might be good for smaller people. If you find sugar free white chocolate anywhere, let me know. Maybe I'll try that Purity Candy place. I think someone else on the Board mentioned another brand, so I'll take a look.