Gluten-free, Low-carb Chocolate Amaretto Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 ounces almond flour
• 1 teaspoon guar gum or 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 2 ounces dark chocolate (at least 70 %)
• 2 eggs, separated
• 1/8 cup agave nectar
• 1 ounce butter
• 1/8 cup amaretto liqueur
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 1/2 ounces cream cheese
• 3 tablespoons amaretto liqueur
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 1/2 ounces butterscotch chocolate

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350° f (320° f when fan assisted).
• 2 cream cheese filling:.
• 3 chop butterscotch chocolate (if you don't use chips).
• 4 dissolve starch in amaretto (or almond essence or syrup with 1 or 2 tablespoons cold water).
• 5 stir in cream cheese until creamy.
• 6 stir in maple syrup.
• 7 stir in chopped chocolate.
• 8 chocolate batter:.
• 9 combine almond flower, guar gum or xanthan gum and baking powder in a bowl.
• 10 beat egg whites until stiff peaks form, set aside.
• 11 in a double boiler, melt chocolate and butter.
• 12 in a seperate bowl, cream egg yolks and agave nectar.
• 13 stir amaretto into melted butter-chocolate mix.
• 14 cream melted butter-chocolate-amaretto mix and egg yolk-agave nectar.
• 15 stir dry ingredients into that cream.
• 16 fold in egg whites.
• 17 line six cupcake cups with paper liners.
• 18 divide the chocolate batter and fill one dollop of the first half into the bottom of each cupcake cup.
• 19 fill one dollop of cream cheese filling on top of each portion.
• 20 cover with the second half of the chocolate batter.
• 21 bake at 350° f (or 320° f fan assisted) for about 15-20 minutes. the surface of the cakes will spring and crack. don't mind if you can see the filling, and don't mind if it looks liquid. it will solidify after cooling.
• 22 immediately remove the cakes from the cups and let cool on a rack.
• 23 you can eat them hot, like my husband did, they will be a bit like molten lava cakes or some kind of pudding. or you can let them cool and top with you favourite frosting.