Low Fat Chocolate Cupcakes

Low Fat Chocolate Cupcakes

Ashleigh has been crazy on chocolate lately. And cake. And all things sugary really. So for his treats I decided to make my own little chocolate cakes for him. Now before anyone lectures me about feeding your kids bad food, I know that this is not healthy and I won’t pretend that it is. But at least I know exactly what went into it, plus he does not eat this by the dozen. As I said it is a treat. He squealed in excitement when he saw this…

Low Fat Chocolate Cupcakes

A lighter no-butter chocolate cupcakes

Equipment

  • 12-hole muffin tin

Ingredients
  

  • 200 gram self raising flour
  • 200 gram light muscovado sugar
  • 6 tbsp cocoa powder Unsweetened
  • 150 ml vegetable oil or other flavourless oil, e.g. canola
  • 100 ml soured cream or greek yoghurt
  • 2 eggs medium
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 100 ml water
  • 50 gram choc chips or raisins, nuts

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 180'C, line your muffin tin (it'll make 10 muffin-sized cake) or bun tin (makes 24).
  • Whisk everything apart from the choc chips together, with electric mixer until smooth with no lumps.
  • Gently fold in the choc chips.
  • Fill the tin to half or 2/3 full (tops!), otherwise it'll all spill out!
  • Bake for 20 mins if you're using a muffin tin, or 12 minutes if you're using a bun tin.
  • To test if they are cooked, stick a skewer in and if it comes out clean, it's cooked! Or when it springs back after you pressed it lightly. If it's not cooked, back in the oven for another 3 mins.
  • Take them out of the oven. Wait for a minute or two then lift them out onto a cooling rack.

Now because I’m making these for Ash, I didn’t ice them. (That’d be too messy and sweet! Which I’m sure he’ll love, but I don’t approve…) For adults with self control (ah-ha), ice with chocolate icing.

P.S. Note that I said it’s low fat (since it has no butter in it… only some veg oil, and you can use canola oil to make it healthier), it’s not low sugar! For a no butter, no sugar sweet treat, check out my Butter and Sugar Free Flapjacks or Museli Yoghurt with Honey.


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