Gluten Free Vegan Lemon Cupcakes (Nut Free)

Celebrate Spring with these delicious and moist Gluten Free Lemon Cupcakes! Our lemon cupcakes are not only gluten free, but also dairy free, vegan, and top 8 free.

Top 8 allergen free, gluten free, vegan, nut free; Free of: soy, eggs, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts

Course Cakes, Desserts

Cuisine American

Keyword allergy friendly cupcakes, gluten free vanilla cupcakes, vegan cupcakes

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 21

Total Time 36

Servings cupcakes

Calories 141kcal

Author Sarah Jane Parker

Ingredients

1 ⅓ cups + 2 Tablespoons Authentic Foods superfine sorghum flour (OR fine brown rice flour, both work in this recipe)
⅔ cup unbleached cane sugar (coconut sugar can also be used)
¼ cup + 2 Tablespoons ground golden flaxseed (this acts as an egg replacer, don't skip this ingredient!)
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 ¼ cup rice milk
¼ cup oil (I use light-tasting olive oil)
1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons vanilla
Zest of 2 fresh lemons
Lemon Buttercream Frosting (recipe farther down in the blog post)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with muffin papers or silicone muffin liners and set aside. Both silicone liners and paper liners work for this recipe, just make sure not to leave the cupcakes in the silicone muffin liners too long if you choose silicone.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, ground flaxseed, salt, and baking powder.
In a separate small bowl, whisk together the rice milk, oil, lemon juice, vanilla, and lemon zest.
Add the rice milk mixture to the flour mixture and stir to evenly mix to form the batter.
Divide the batter evenly between the 12 lined muffin cups.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20-24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. I found that it takes slightly longer (just a few minutes) to bake cupcakes in a stoneware pan than a metal pan.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before removing the cupcakes from the pan to cool on a wire rack.
Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before frosting. Store in an airtight container for about 3-4 days. Enjoy!

Notes

Nutrition info is calculated for just the cupcake without the frosting. The frosting nutrition info is calculated in the frosting recipe card.

Nutrition