Healthy Whole Wheat Dutch Chocolate Cupcakes With Whipped Buttercream Frosting
Created by SkinnyGirlsRecipes on June 27, 2013
- Servings: 12
- Prep Time: 20-25m
- Cook Time: 18m
- Recipe #9936
Ingredients
- CUPCAKES
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup brown sugar (light)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup buttermilk (fresh buttermilk 2 teaspoons white vinegar and 1 cup fat free milk)
- 2 large eggs (fresh eggs)
- 1 teaspoons white vinegar
- 1 1/2 cup oil (canola oil or applesauce I prefer canola oil)
- 1/4 cup cocoa (Dutch cocoa)
- FROSTING
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter (softened)
- 3 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons fat-free milk
- 1/3 cup Dutch cocoa
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
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Step 2: Cupcakes:
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Step 3: Mix wet ingredients, then add sifted dry ingredients until well blended.
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Step 4: Fill cupcake tins half way.
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Step 5: Bake for 18 minutes.
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Step 6: Once done, cool on wire rack.
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Step 7: Frosting:
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Step 8: Cream butter.
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Step 9: Add powdered sugar, vanilla, cocoa, milk a little bit at a time. (You want to be able to pipe the frosting).
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Step 10: Whipped Buttercream Frosting:
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Step 11: To make it Whipped Buttercream Frosing, you have to mix the frosting with an electric mixer, on high speed, for about 3 minutes.
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Step 12: Place frosting in your piping bag, then frost cupcakes.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (187.2 g)
- Calories 864.9
- Total Fat - 58.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 22.5 g
- Cholesterol - 85.4 mg
- Sodium - 348.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 85.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.7 g
- Sugars - 66.8 g
- Protein - 4.8 g
- Calcium - 53.7 mg
- Iron - 1.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg