Spooky Spiders and Webs (Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free)
Have fun creating these spooky, scary gluten-free spiders cakes to share with your friends on Halloween! Choose all gluten-free, dairy-free ingredients.
Ingredients
Whoopie Pies
- 4 T Earth Balance butter
- 4 T coconut oil
- 4 T applesauce (natural, no sugar added)
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 t. vanilla
- 2 t. baking soda
- ½ t. guar gum
- 1 1/4 cup rice milk
- 3/4 cup brown rice flour
- 1/4 cup potato starch
- 1/4 cup tapioca flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- Pinch of sea salt
Center Filling
- ¼ cup Earth Balance butter
- ¾ cup gluten-free confectioners' sugar
- ¾ T rice or coconut milk
- ¾ t. lemon juice
- 1 t. pure vanilla extract
Instructions
Whoopie Pies
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Cream the butter, oil, applesauce and sugar together.
- Add the egg and vanilla, mix well.
- In another bowl add the flours, cocoa, baking soda, guar gum and salt, whisk together.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, adding milk in between each addition. Mix until all combined, smooth and creamy.
- Scoop the batter into oiled Whoopie pie pans. Bake for 8 minutes or until knife comes out clean. Let cool on wire rack before decorating. Makes about 16-20 whoopie pies.
- Let whoopee pies cool completely before you decorate.
Filling
- Cream the butter. Then slowly add in the following ingredients whipping the mixture all together. Blend with a mixer for 5 minutes. Place in refrigerator until ready to use.
Notes
While the whoopie pies are cooling, you can prepare the spider legs.
You'll need about 1 cup of dark chocolate chips, melted and 8 small gluten-free pretzel sticks for each spider to create 4 legs per side of each spider. (Snyders GF Pretzel sticks work well)
Once the chocolate is melted, dip each pretzel stick about halfway into the chocolate to coat the stick. Place on a piece of wax paper to set - about 30-60 minutes. Let the chocolate completely set before assembling the spiders.