Here is the healthy cupcake recipe that won’t let you down.
Cupcakes so soft and fluffy…
No one will ever guess that they’re low-fat!
I went through five or six attempts before finally achieving the results I wanted: a “no-fail” healthy vanilla cupcake recipe that both health-food eaters and junk-food eaters will love.
Above, a skinny vanilla cupcake with Healthy Glaze Icing.
You can have fun with this recipe: keep it simple, or add just a few ingredients to make blueberry cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes, or even chocolate-chip cupcakes. Everyone should keep a good basic cupcake recipe in his or her arsenal.
Can be sugar-free, too!
Skinny Vanilla Cupcakes
(makes 9-10 cupcakes)
Or click if you’d prefer: Healthy Chocolate Cupcakes.
- 1 cup spelt flour, or white flour, or Arrowhead Mills gf mix (140g)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp ener g powder, or 1 tbs ground flaxmeal
- 4 tbsp xylitol or sugar (54g)
- 2 Nunatural stevia packets (or 2 extra 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 coconut or veg oil (can omit, but the cupcakes will be a bit gummy) (36g)
- add 1/2 tsp xanthan gum if using the gf mix
Preheat oven to 350 F, and grease muffin tins. Combine all wet ingredients with the energ or flax, and stir vigorously. In a separate bowl, combine all remaining dry ingredients, and mix very well. 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.
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You’ve done it again! These look fantastic.
Wanna come make cupcakes for MY bachelorette party? 😉
I’m a big strawberry fan, so I would definitely consider doing that. You could also do mocha or coffee flavored, which would be fun, haha or even margherita or grenadine flavored!
These look delightful! Love this idea!
I’d love to see oatmeal in a cupcake….oatmeal cookie maybe?
Hi! Okay, I’ve been neglecting to comment out of shyness for too long. First I want to congratulate you on your cookbook, Katie! You know when you release your cookbook, there’ll be a mile long – no, 10 mile long line the day before it comes out, with people camping outside the bookstore! Among those people will be all of us, I may safely say. ^^ I’m very excited for it. I know I speak for many when I say you touch others with your kindness – and chipperness! It’s so true for me. Thanks for taking a chance and casting some of your life through this blog. =] And I made these!! As soon as I saw them I knew what my snack was going to be. XD They turned out FANTASTIC, so much better than my last batch of cupcakes! I was worried they were going to turn out too gummy like my last batch, but they didn’t at all. Though maybe that’s because I actually used xylitol instead of trying to replace the dry sweetener with liquid. ^^’ Nonetheless, they turned out wonderful. I’ve been so desperately wanting a healthy PLAIN vanilla cupcake! Like Kristine said, they’re hard to make. As for my cupcake-spin off ideas…I like lemon blueberry too…and that fruity cupcake idea sounds delicious!! Fruitcake-cupcake, anyone?! The blackforest sounds good too. And so does all Grace’s ideas. 😀 Hmm…Mounds bar cupcake?! I so miss my kit-kat bars too. D: And I’m just WAITING for that vegan toaster strudel recipe! Don’t tease us, woman!
Wow, thank you! It made my day to get such a sweet comment.
Plus, I’m excited you already tried the cupcakes… I think you’re the first person to make them :).
They’re so adorable! I need to get me some xylitol as it’s the one natural sweetener I haven’t played around with much. Love these!
I just made these strawberry shortcake cupcakes for a baby shower:
http://thesweetlifeonline.blogspot.com/2012/06/welcome-baby.html
you would just add coconut whipped cream and strawberries so they would stay pretty healthy.
I really reallllyyy love jelly-filled cupcakes. You just put preserves in the middle before baking!
THANK YOU!
I’m going to be honest with you here. Whenever you have a new blog post, I get so happy because I absolutely love your creative, innovative, and somewhat healthy recipes. If possible, could you please include how much liquid stevia drops we would use if we don’t have sugar or stevia packets. Thank you, Katie!
Sorry, I haven’t tried it with liquid stevia so I don’t know how it would taste or how much to use. I’m always hesitant to give recommendations for something if I haven’t already tried it… because you never know how it’ll turn out and I don’t want anyone to end up with an awful outcome on my account.
I found this: http://www.stevia.net/conversion.html might help! 🙂
Wow, AWESOME ingredient list! So excited for this recipe. And I love your ideas for adding some additional ingredients to make different flavors. Bookmarking this one for sure 🙂 Thanks for your many attempts to perfect this recipe!