Trader joes gluten free cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcake (cane sugar, cornstarch, tapioca starch, water, rice flour, potato starch, eggs, expeller pressed canola oil, modified food starch (corn, tapioca), whey protein concentrate, buckwheat flour, baking powder (sodium and phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cornstarch, monocalcium phosphate), dried egg whites, salt, guar gum, natural flavor, xanthan gum), vanilla frosting (powdered sugar (cane sugar, cornstarch), butter, organic heavy cream, vanilla extract (water, ethyl alcohol, vanilla bean extractives)).

Idk if it’s just because I haven’t had real cupcakes in awhile or what, but they are soooo good. Very moist and much better than other ones I’ve had

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I kinda wish I didn't know this now. I lost tons of weight, because I just figure all gf bakery items taste like cardboard. Now I will definitely buy them. Thx, lol. Has anyone tried their bagels?

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I seriously love their bagels

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The darn mini cupcakes are 100 calories each. I also initially lost a good bit of weight until I found tasty gf options...I gotta cut back now that the holidays are over.

The TJs everything bagles are great toasted!

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We have Bird bakery in San Antonio. Their GF cupcakes are truly the best. I can’t tell the difference between a regular and a GF. They typically have 3 daily GF flavors but you can custom order them and even order them as mini’s. Funny thing is that their GF brownie is disappointing. I can actually do better at home. Go figure.

In the photo below, the GF are in the bottom right.

Bird Bakery

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Pro tip- pack one in a Dixie cup in a ziplock bag. Put it in your purse. Whip it out when the gluten dessert comes out.

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Yes, very good! So are their hamburger buns!

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I wish they still has the flouless cake ( more brownie like. Or prepacked gf brownies. I like dense. I hate cake, anything fluffy, and frosting is nasty. Don't like overly sweet.

Of all the gluten-free baked goods we've tried so far, I would have to say the Macarons and the Snickerdoodles have been the best.

In the case of the macarons, there's a texture we're not used to eating all the time. It's a uniquely "macaron" or "macaroon" texture. And, personally, I've had way more macarons from TJ's than from anywhere else. But in the case of the snickerdoodles, they approximated a very "normal" texture without using gluten. It's harder to imitate something that's usually made with gluten than it is to just make something different.

So making a gluten free cupcake seems like it should be pretty close to impossible. But I've gotta say, they came incredibly close.

Once again, they nailed the flavor of a chocolate cupcake. I personally liked the frosting, too, although Sonia thinks it was too heavy for her tastes. I must admit, it was thick and very buttery. But it had a nice vanilla taste, and it blended well with the chocolate cake.

The cake part was super-moist. It broke apart in the same way any chocolate cake would, but once you started chewing it, there was just a tiny hint of what I might call "starchiness." It's like portions of the cake crumbs wanted to stick together just a hair more than with a glutenful cupcake that perfectly "melts in your mouth." But that's nitpicking. Really. The effect was very subtle, and if I hadn't already known that these were gluten-free cupcakes, I might not have noticed it. I think it's gotta be the "potato starch" that you can see there in the ingredients list photo, which wound up looking like the culinary equivalent of an American Apparel ad. I washed it all down with a tasty caramel latte, and my tummy was a happy camper. And sure enough, my stomach didn't puff up the way it does when I eat regular cupcakes. I should probably do this gluten-free thing full time. With products like these, I wouldn't feel like I'm giving up the world.

The checkout guy at Trader Joe's exclaimed, "Enjoy the cupcakes. They're excellent!" when I bought them. He's certainly not wrong. Sonia's only complaint was the heaviness of the buttercream, although I was a fan of the icing. And my only complaint is the oh-so-barely-there weirdness of the cake texture. Definitely, if you're eating gluten-free out of necessity, these cupcakes will be your friends.

Sonia gives them 4 stars. I think they're worthy of a 4.5.

Bottom line: 8.5 out of 10.

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