Above, a single lady with Reeses Pieces Chocolate Frosting.
Single Lady Cupcake
(makes a single serving cupcake)
- 3 tbsp flour (30g) (See directions for flour notes)
- heaping 1/16th tsp salt
- 1 tbsp applesauce, oil, pre-melted margarine (such as Earth Balance or Smart Balance Light), or a combination
- 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp liquid (milk of choice or water)
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- Sweetener (I hate giving specific amounts, since tastebuds are so different. For normal tastebuds, 1 to 1 and 1/2 tbsp of sugar, or 1 to 1 1/2 packets of stevia should be about right. If you use liquid sweetener, cut back a tiny bit on the other liquid.)
Directions: Preheat the oven to 330 degrees. Mix the ingredients and pour into an oiled (or sprayed) muffin pan. Smooth top of batter. Cook for 12-15ish minutes. Alternatively, you can cook in the microwave, in a greased mug or ramekin. (Microwave times will vary, depending on the flour you use and the strength of your microwave.
Notes on flour: If you use whole-wheat pastry or spelt flour for cupcakes, you’ll get a denser (more muffin-like) cake. Still delicious! White flour and Bob’s gluten-free also work. I wouldn’t recommend plain whole-wheat flour. (Also, be warned if you’ve never done fat-free baking: subbing all the oil in a recipe for applesauce will give you a gummier result. Once again, still delicious, but much denser than your traditional cupcake with oil.)
Nutrition Info:
- Calories: 110
- Fat: 0.5 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Carbohydrates: 23 g
- Fiber: 4 g
- ww points (new system): 3
(Add 100 calories if you use the tbsp of oil as opposed to the applesauce version.)
Above, with cinnamon and my Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting.
So basically, the cupcake became a Cinnamon Roll Cupcake. I have many more ideas for future cupcakes. It’s really fun dealing with one at a time. They’re so quick to make that you can measure ingredients in separate bowls and add different mix-ins to each bowl. One chocolate-chip cupcake, one pumpkin, one carrot cake… you get the idea.
Yumm! Delicious…I love the idea of making a whole bunch of cupcakes of different flavors. Sometimes I think my tastebuds have ADD, so a bunch of flavors would definitely be right up my ally!
For a flavor suggestion, how about a spiced pear cupcake with caramel frosting?
I. Love. You. CCK!! This is fantastical, especially for us single gals!! Yum!
Girl, I love you right back!! 🙂
You are SUCH a sweetheart!
Aw, don’t get down! Some really great creations can come out from moving on! You’re like Taylor Swift writing songs about boys…except you create delicious treats. 😉
But I hear ya. Keep your chin up!
That frosting looks so amazing. It is always my favorite part of cupcakes.
LOL oh my goodness! Funniest comment ever. I’m like the Taylor Swift of the blogging world… or maybe that’s just wishful thinking, because I think she’s awesome (even though Country music isn’t my favorite genre). She’s just so fun and outspoken :).
awww your cupcake looks so sad with no frosting 🙁
but it looks absolutely amazing decorated! mmm it’s making me hungry haha.
hmm way of distracting myself from negative thoughts? i like to write in my journal, or blog. If it’s out of my head, onto paper (or computer haha), then usually I can move on with my day. I like ot bake too though… that’s always relaxing and distracting. And yummy! Long walks on the beach, if I’m at home, are absolutely amazing as well 🙂
and personalized cupcake flavour? Peanut butter banana chocolate chip. Pumpkin. Pumpkin Ginger. Carrot ginger. zucchini chocolate. honey and tofutti. dark dark dark dark chocolate. oooh there are so many i’d like! :p
How much do I love your phrase “dark dark dark dark chocolate”? Someone needs to invent that. Perhaps in a vegan ice cream flavor. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 🙂
Katie! Ive never commented before but I LOVE your blog. I just wanted to say (sorry this is unrelated to your post) but I have oats in the fridge for tomorrow morning that Im using your voluminous oatmeal trick on! I was so skeptical because after microwaving it was still all water but its already sucked it all up! Im so excited for breakfast now. I make oatmeal everyday. I have a million flavour combinations and a whole box in my cupboard dedicated to oatmeal toppings and mix ins. =]
Aww! LOL I was just thinking the other day, “I should do a Voluminous Oat tutorial, because I bet people see the oats all watery and just throw them out, never believing they’ll absorb so much water.”
Thanks for the sweet comment… and I hope you enjoy the heck out of your oatmeal ;). Hehe your oatmeal box sounds awesomelicious!
That cupcake looks epic!
I run to get my mind off the bad things 🙂
Love this! Sometimes I need A cupcake, not a whole pan of them.
As a biologist I must disagree with you on how boring Biology textbooks are. Although sometimes they really are utterly boring 😀 . But I get what you mean because my love life is the same, i.e. missing. I usually use music, movies and long walks for distraction form any kind of negative thoughts but I think baking is a good idea too.
My dream cupcake would be with banana, coffee and caramel. And maybe an almond on top 🙂 .
Hehe oh ok, I’m sure there are good bio books out there… I probably am not giving them a fair shot because the ones I remember were generic, public-school textbooks trying to put a ton of info into a little book and drum it into the minds of kids who couldn’t have cared less. Plus, my 10th-grade bio textbook was growing mold. I’m serious! I moved schools, mid-year, and that was the one they gave me! 😕
I love it! A single cupcake…brilliant (portion control-solved!)
Looks lovely. A flavor I dream of is white chocolate carmel…never had one like that.
Not a big fan of negative thoughts AT ALL (who is) but Yoga,Baking, working with my amazing clients, and my passions and friends/family all are a great distraction for me and most importantly…our doggies! 🙂
Doggies!! The ultimate anti-negative-thoughts. I swear, you cannot be sad and look into my dog Henry’s eyes at the same time. It just isn’t possible!
I’m pretty sure you’re the only person I’ve ever seen use the phrase “heaping 1/16th tsp salt”. That totally cracked me up.
I’m more of a muffin girl myself, but I’ve finally figured out that when I get that craving (often!) I can just make up a batch and grab out 3 or 4 for me and The Man, and send the rest of them with my daughter to her sitter, where she and her friends demolish them at breakfast.
Hahahaha I like to be EXACT with measurements for those things I bother to measure at all. In this case, I found that 1/16th was not enough, but I thought 1/8th would be too much. What’s a girl to do? 😉