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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Thank you Katie for the lovely recipe & thanks for remembering us gf folks. I appreciate the gesture :)!
Ohhh they sound delicious! Maybe try it with honey flavored yogurt in place of the vanilla with a drizzle of honey on the top!
Hi Katie,
I really love your site and have been doing most of my dessert recipes from you. They are awesome. I really like the Choc Chip Banana Bread. I especially feel good about serving your desserts to my little granddaughter.
I used to make Monster cookies with peanut butter, oats, M&Ms and choc chips. Would you consider coming up with a recipe for those?
Thanks!
Penny
I can try!
I need to figure out what to do for the m&ms, though…
I love Cranberries in blondies or cupcakes. Coconut cream is nice, too. But I’ve some friends who don’t like coconut, I love it. So this would be an option when you know all the people 🙂
Chocolate chips are always great and I think everyone likes chocolate! 😀
THank you for always including gluten-free options. It’s nice of you to go the extra mile 🙂
I actually have an awesome friend who likes to test all my recipes with Arrowhead Mills gf flour, which is why I can list it as a substitute in a lot of recipes and know it works. But I’m trying to experiment more with gf flours… like coconut flour. Hopefully there’ll be more gf recipes in the future (and in the cookbook) that don’t rely on a packaged mix. 🙂
I really recommend buckwheat flour for gluten free baking. It’s very light, so it’s great for cakes and muffins (and pancakes!). When I make bread with it I add some psyllium husks and flaxseed to bulk it up a bit and add some fibre.
I would leave them just the way they are…with a *GIANT* dollop of coconut cool whip!!!!
For the flax is that just regular flaxseed?
Ground flax. Google “how to make a flax egg” 🙂
Yum! I’m not a hudg fan of cupcakes, but after watching an episode of cupcake wars at 3 AM I’ve been kind of struck with a craving for them all day.
I would make Boston cream cupcakes! Pipe some soy pudding on the inside then top with a dark chocolate glaze type icing…yum.
Hey katie,
I was wondering what you’d say your staples are to have in the kitchen for baking? I always want to make your recipes but I never seen to have the right ingredients around
Hi Brooke!
I have a list on my faq page, under the recipe section: https://lett-trim.today/faq-page/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Hope that helps!!
Katie, If you ever find yourself in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, I know just the place for you! Cafe Chocolate is an adorable, cozy and delicious cafe located in the quaint downtown Litiz. The food, coffee and teas are all amazing but what is best is the chocolate! They pride themselves in fair trade everything and most of the cuisine and desserts are VEGAN! The owner is sooo nice and has her doctorate in business. She has lived all over the world and understands different cultures. Her menu is inspired from all the places she’s been. When I’m in college and go there with friends, she treats us like family; so genuine and sincere. There is even a fountain gushing the tastiest VEGAN CHOCOLATE you can dip goodies into! I really think you would enjoy this place 🙂 I know I do!
Wow, I just looked it up. That is awesome! I used to live so close, too :(… I’ve even been to Lancaster before. But that was a long time ago. I think I ate fried chicken and shoo fly pie!
That is so cool you’ve been to Lancaster!! Wow small world!! You’ll have to come back sometime and try it out 🙂