These patriotic little Fourth Of July cupcakes are hiding a surprise inside…
They’re secretly stuffed with blueberries and Healthy Whipped Cream!
One morning last week, my roommate came downstairs, gave me a funny look, and said, “Katie, why are you making patriotic cupcakes in June?”
Sometimes, in order to get holiday recipe posts written and published in time, I do odd things—like make Santa cookies in September or pumpkin bread in July. No one (except maybe me) wants to see a recipe for chocolate bunnies the day after Easter.
The Fourth Of July cupcakes may look ordinary from the outside…
But just one bite, and you’re surprised with even more fresh berries hiding inside.
One can never have too many fresh blueberries!
These breakfast cupcakes are based on my go-to vanilla recipe. I love variation recipes, as you’re already certain, before starting out, that the recipe won’t fail. If you have a tried-and-true recipe, why completely reinvent the wheel, right?
Sometimes it’s just fun to see a new twist:
Happy Fourth Of July Cupcakes
(makes 9-10 cupcakes)
- 1 cup spelt flour, or white flour, or Arrowhead Mills gf (140g)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsp ground flax OR 2 tsp ener g powder
- 4 tbsp sugar of choice or xylitol (54g)
- pinch stevia OR 2 additional tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup plain or vanilla yogurt of choice (Silk or SoDelicious both work) (230g)
- 1/4 cup milk of choice (60g)
- 3 tbsp oil (can omit, but the cupcakes will be gummy) (36g)
- fresh blueberries and sliced strawberries or jam
- cream of choice, such as Soyatoo or the homemade whip cream recipe linked under the first photo of this post
Preheat oven to 350 F, and grease muffin tins. Combine all dry ingredients (except berries) in a bowl, and mix very well. In a separate bowl, combine all wet ingredients (except cream) and stir. Pour wet into dry, and mix until just combined (don’t overmix). Cook 18-20 minutes, then let sit at least 10 before removing from muffin tins. Cut out holes with a knife, and stuff fresh berries (or jam) into the holes. Then you can either squish the tops back on or discard them (by way of your mouth!). Just before serving, top with the cream and more fresh berries.
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Did you like playing hide-and-seek as a kid?
I was really good at hiding. But the game can be terribly boring (not to mention painful!) when you’re a good hider. You’re stuck waiting for someone to rescue you out of whatever kitchen cabinet or tiny closet space you’ve squished into. So I always preferred being the seeker, which made everyone happy because no one else ever seemed to want that job.
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Cupcakes for breakfast? Umm, yes please.
This is dorky, but growing up we always liked to play “Sardines”, which is like reverse hide-n-seek – one person hides and everyone looks and hides with the person when they find them. This game got intense though – it messed with your head! People would start to disappear when they found the person until you were all alone…not gonna lie, I would happily still play it now at age 22. It took strategy!
I LOVED Sardines…totally forgot about that game.
When I was a pre-teen, my church youth group used to play a game called Man Hunt. It was like hide and seek combined with tag with teams. We played in the church yard…at night. Each team would dedicate a person to hide and the other team would have to find them in enemy territory…and I think some sort of tag game was also involved. Don’t remember the details but I remember having a BLAST playing it.
These looks amazing! We are going to a potlock on the 4th of July and these look like they would be perfect to bring.
This is such a great idea; stuffing fresh blueberries in the center!
After the holidays you could do it with any fruit I guess. Mashed banana and coconut in the center is in my head for this 🙂
Thanks Katie x
These are adorable and you’re right…perfect for the fourth! I have a recipe very similar too, looks great Katie 🙂
Mmmm I love berries AND cupcakes! Fourth of July or not, here I come 😎
Ahhh, I love sweets for breakfast! I’ve been eating blackberry pie for breakfast recently! With chocolate blackberry mousse! YUMMY!
katie i know this is random and not really related to this awesome recipe but i thought you might be interested in another cauliflower dessert. i found this recipe http://fresh4five.blogspot.ca/2012/02/paleo-meyer-lemon-dreamcake.html for cheesecake using it and it looks really good. i know you cant have the lemon part on top but i thought you could find something else to use ontop or even change the filling around as well to make it different. i just thought you’d like the idea of using cauliflower as a way to thicken other kinds of desserts like this. apparently its also used in sauces to thicken them up instead of other options. I’d love you to find more ways to use cauliflower 😀
Wow this is crazy… I actually made a cauliflower-based lemon cheesecake a few weeks ago, (adapting my Strawberry Truffle Pie recipe). I haven’t posted it yet and am debating whether to post it on the blog or save it for the cookbook. Might go with blog… I’m not sure people outside of the blogworld are quite ready for cauliflower cheesecake ;).
But I definitely am working on more ideas with cauliflower. I have an Alfredo sauce recipe I need to post soon as well.
Katie,
Hello! I am fairly new to your blog and am very excited to start trying your recipes. I have an insane sweet tooth and I’m trying to be more mindful of what I’m eating. For these cupcakes, I see the recipe references chia or flax egg…is there more information on that somewhere on your site? I tried a search for it but didn’t seem to get an exact match. Thought I’d check. I may try to make these to bring to work on Tuesday!
-Chris
A flax egg is basically one tbsp ground flax seeds + 3 tbsp water, left to sit aside for a few minutes until it gets gelatinous. A chia egg would be the same proportions, but with chia seeds instead of ground flax. 🙂
Thanks, Caroline!
And I am embarrassed… it says “see how to make eggs” in my post and I forgot to link it!!
Here’s the link, and I’ve also edited the post. Sorry for the confusion!
https://lett-trim.today/vanilla-cupcakes-nutrition-facts/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
whatever happened to the vitamix giveaway!????
I loved hide and seek! (Still do!!!) Hiding was definitely my strong point!
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