Healthy Hostess Cupcakes!
Hostess cupcakes iced with Hot Chocolate Butter.
Along with yesterday’s Healthy Cookie Dough Dip, I brought these cupcakes to Sunday’s pirate party.
For a while now, I’d been looking for an excuse to try making a healthier version of the popular creme-filled cupcakes. So when I discovered I could stretch the “yo ho/ ho ho” pun and pass these off as pirate-themed, I knew they had to be made. Unlike Hostess’ cupcakes, mine are whole-grain, low in fat and calories, and free of high fructose corn syrup and trans fats.
But seriously, people will eat them up!!
Healthy Hostess Cupcakes
Inspired by My Favorite Chocolate Cupcakes
- 1 cup spelt, white, or Bob’s gf flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp plus 1/8 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar or xylitol
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 and 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 and 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt of choice, such as SoDelicious
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 3 tbsp oil
- 1/2 cup milk of choice
- marshmallow fluff – I use my Vegan Marshmallow Fluff
Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients, then add wet – excluding marshmallow fluff. Don’t overmix. Pour into cupcake tins, and bake for 15-20 minutes. Allow cupcakes to cool, then cut or poke holes in the tops and scoop in the cream. Re-cover the tops. (Recipe continues below.)
Frost cupcakes with warmed Hot Chocolate Butter or with melted chocolate chips. Then put the cakes in the fridge for the frosting to harden. Once hard, you can use an icing writer for the tiny squiggles if you wish. Yes, I know the icing isn’t healthy. But it’s only like a 1/8 tsp, so I still feel justified in calling these cupcakes healthy.
An alternative to the creme:
Try stuffing them with Healthy Cookie Dough Dip.
Or, you could imitate some of the people at the party and dunk these cupcakes into the cookie dough dip. Sugar on top of sugar. So much for this being a healthy dessert blog!
Is the ricemellow. Soy, dairy and egg free. If so where do u get it? My sons alergic to so manythings and imalways trying to find stuf for him.
It’s called “Suzanne’s Ricemellow Cream” and you can find it often at little health food stores. I found it at a hfs in New York. You can also do a google search and buy it online. It IS vegan, but it has soy.
Thats what i thought. Do you no if there is any soy egg dairy free alternitaive to use?
Maybe try coconut cool whip? https://lett-trim.today/2011/08/16/vegan-cool-whip/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Oh my yum indeed!
They’re so cute!! Gosh I need to get into baking again. I bet I could get one of my roommates to taste test. Or I could bring my leftovers to the boyfriend’s apartment!
Too good to be true! Me wantz! 🙂
Yum! 🙂 Marshmallow fluff filling sounds SO good!
I made these for my birthday one year!! So much fun!
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I love this idea here Katie. We all love Hostess Cupcakes, But certainly not the ingredients.
I think we all secretly love these cupcakes because of the pretty white swirls and the magic in the middle. 🙂 I love that you have captured that. RFD in LA makes a great vegan one too.
I hope to give these a try soon!
Katie these look sooo good! And they are perfect! The swirls on top look like you are giving Hostess a run for their money! I admit that cake decorating is not something I excel at…it all just turns into a messy art project 🙂
I love that you filled them with creme/fluff…totally authentic.
I am sure I’ll be seeing these pics on the foodie sites later today 🙂
I used to eat these things all the time after gymnastics. Definitely bookmarking this for this weekend. Like the Yo Ho Ho thing you did there. Very punny 🙂
These bring me back to childhood. So pretty!
These look like the real deal, but so much healthier! Def have to try. Yum!
Hi Katie,
I just wanted to tell you (although you get this all the time) that I love your blog! I just stumbled across it via foodgawker the other day and I’m definitely going to be a reader now. I love your genuine excitement about life, and of course, your delicious looking recipes. Thanks for being such an open and honest blog personality!
Alexis
Thank you SO much, Alexis! I am so glad you found me.
Sending you chocolate hugs… let me know if you don’t get them. (I will yell at the mailman ;).)
Your recipes never cease to wow me! I want to grab one right now 🙂
I NEED THESE NOW!
YUM! I think I’ve finally found something I can make my nephew that he’ll love! The problem with him is that he likes run-of-the-mill desserts/sweets whereas I like mixing it up (he just likes chocolate, I like it when chocolate dates things like PB and banana and raspberries, heck even AVOCADO! haha).
I can’t find ricemellow in the shops where I live, do I have your permission to try this recipe with your vanilla “pudding” instead (you know, the agar agar one!) ?? 😉 haha
Haha you have my permission… as long as you tell me how it goes!! 🙂 🙂