150-Calorie Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

GypsySoul_74

Today I made over my Triple Chocolate Fantasy Cake, a original recipe which has been a longtime hit with family & friends (but a total calorie bomb at 350+ calories per cupcake!).The revised recipe turned out incredibly well and really reasonable calorie-wise, so I thought I'd share!!

Chocolate Fantasy Cake

Dry Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup (210g) white whole wheat flour
1 cup (192g) Splenda baking blend - -[I'm not 100% sure this volume-to-weight conversion is correct; I measured by weight]
3/4 cup (63g) Hershey's unsweetened cocoa
1.5 tsp baking soda
1.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

Moist Ingredients:
2 eggs (separated)
1 cup unsweetened original almond milk
1/4 cup (56g) canola oil
1/4 cup (62g) unsweetened applesauce
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup (60g) Hershey's milk chocolate chips, melted
1 cup boiling water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together all dry ingredients. Add all moist ingredients except for egg whites and boiling water. Mix by hand (or on low in a stand mixer) until completely combined. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites into batter. Stir in boiling water; batter will be extremely thin. Pour into two greased & floured 9" cake pans or two lined cupcake pans and bake immediately: 15-18 minutes for cupcakes or 28-30 minutes for large cakes. (May take slightly longer; cake will form a solid exterior but the "toothpick test" will not work--the toothpick will never come out quite clean.)

Yield: 22 cupcakes

Per unfrosted cupcake: 90 calories / 4.5g fat / 12g carbs (4g sugar) / 2.5g protein



Low-Fat Peanut Butter Frosting:

(Note: This turns out like something between a frosting and a glaze--haven't quite perfected it, but a dozen people think it tastes great, so it's what I'm using on them for now! This frosting would not work for a full-size cake because of the consistency.)

1 cup (96g) PB2 powdered peanut butter
1-1/2 cup (180g) powdered sugar
6 tbsp cornstarch
4-5 TBSP almond milk

Mix PB2 with 2 TBSP almond milk. Mixture will be very thick; just keep mixing. Add powdered sugar and continue mixing. If you need a drop or two more of almond milk to be able to mix in all the powdered sugar, use it--but be VERY sparing. Once the first three ingredients have blended, add the cornstarch one TBSP at a time to thicken the frosting.

If divided into 22 servings (one per cupcake) the nutrition data looks like this per serving: 41 calories / 0.5g fat / 8g carbs (4.5g sugar) / 2g protein



I garnished my frosted cupcakes with 8 chocolate chips each, which brought the nutrition grand totals to: 155 calories / 23g carbs (11g sugar) / 6g fat / 5g protein



Hope somebody else who is a total chocolate & peanut butter junkie like me finds this recipe useful!!

thewordwarrior

Bump for later. Thanks for the share!

MinimalistShoeAddict

Looks great!!

dbratton87

Oh my, have to try!

xstarxdustx

OMG THESE SOUND WONDERFUL! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING!!!!!

katy_trail

i don't think 360 cals is a calorie bomb, that's about the same as 1 slice of pizza.

Autazell

I U.

LexiAtel

YUM! But I would just put on a teaspoon of regular peanut butter for that flavour... sounds GREAT though.

epfenick

Thanks for sharing!!

paintlisapurple

Bump for the cupcake recipe. Thanks!! :flowerforyou:

kellch

kelly_c_77

Bump

DonnaW_78

Yummo!!!

spidey11186

I will make these sometime when I'm back in Albany

MyChocolateDiet

I really like how you cut the cals in HALF almost and wrote detailed recipe instructions with what to expect. I love the inclusion of the nutrition info and the fact that you did not use any insane or gross substitutions but logical changes that would work. Thanks for this recipe, it's one of the few on here, that I'd actually try. No cauliflower, no chickpeas, no avocado, no weirdness. Thanks again, :flowerforyou: .

kellehbeans

Bump for later, I agree with MyChocolateDiet, one of the very few things I would try! Hoping to try this over the next 2 weeks. Thank you!

gypsy_nurse

Thanks for posting this! I LOVE chocolate & pb together Can't wait to try it...

chelkins16

bump

gogoyubarino

bump

hobbitgrrl

Bump! Thanks for the awesome-sounding recipe - can't wait to try it! :flowerforyou:

lautz1008

bump thanks

jenniezoe

Looks AWESOME! I am a baker girl with a huge fixation over chocolate and pb at a certain time of the month! My MIL is a diabetic with issues over eating anything healthy?? Seriously. I think I will pull one over on her with this! Thanks!!!

GypsySoul_74

glad you guys are enjoying this recipe!! not even joking, i've now tried these cupcakes on almost fifty people (took them to a picnic over the weekend) and NO ONE can tell they're healthy!! people keep raving about how moist and rich they are!!

also discovered that the unfrosted cupcakes freeze super-well, too! (note: frosting is not exactly picnic-friendly as it is more like a glaze and melts in the heat--thinking adding a package of reduced fat cream cheese to it might help it stand up a little better?)

dixielawgirl

saving for later! These sound great

staceypunk

Me want!

lulu150

Going to have to try these!!! Thanks!

emyishardcore

Sheila_Ann

yum yum...bumping for later!

sleepingtodream

Sounds good! Another idea....I put black coffee in my chocolate cake recipe...could try that too to enhance the flavor (1/2 c. coffee and 1/2 c. water).

scythswife

Bump

dawn1801

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