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Healthy Chocolate Cupcake

Healthy Chocolate Cupcake

Name: Healthy Chocolate Cupcake
Total time: 55 s
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 0.5 cups Jaggery Powder; 1 cup Atta; 3 tablespoons Cocoa Powder; 1 teaspoon Baking Soda; 0.25 teaspoons Salt; 0.25 cups Refined Oil; 1 tablespoon Synthetic/white Vinegar; 1 cup Dark Chocolate; 1 cup Water; 1.25 cups Slim Milk

Time37 Min

DifficultyIntermediate

Serves12

Craving for something light and healthy for dessert? Freshly-baked chocolate cupcakes can brighten up any occasion. This dark, fudgy and moist cupcakes packed with chocolate flavour in each wrapper tastes divinely delicious. However, if you’re fearlessly dedicated to making wholesome treats and lightened up comfort food, this simple and convenient to make healthy chocolate cupcake recipe can satis ... fy your sweet tooth. While these cupcakes are super-sharable and slightly addictive, they can be the perfect complement to your breakfast or served as after-meal treats. The term ‘cupcake’ was discovered in 1828 in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook while the recipe was discovered by the American Cookery cookbook. Initially, they weren’t cream-filled or frosted as we know them to be. In 1919, cupcakes gained popularity when Hostess Bakery of America began mass producing them. If you’re watching your waistline, a healthy chocolate cupcake can be made with whole wheat flour, coconut or brown sugar and low-fat Greek yoghurt. Those on a vegan or a gluten-free diet can try this healthy chocolate cupcake restaurant style at home using non-dairy milk. Instead of eggs, use baking soda and vinegar that lend the cupcakes a spongey texture. As you prepare healthy chocolate cupcake at home, their tantalizing rich aroma is sure to make your entire family feel hungry. Moreover, the ingredients for this recipe are easily found in our kitchen or bought from the nearest supermarket. Pour honey or date syrup on top to enhance their sweetness. Rolled oats and natural unsweetened cocoa powder or unprocessed cacao powder make these cupcakes secretly healthy under their dessert disguise.

Ingredients

Dry Grocery

Jaggery Powder

0.5 cups

Atta

1 cup

Cocoa Powder

3 tablespoons

Salt

0.25 teaspoons

Refined Oil

0.25 cups

Synthetic/white Vinegar

1 tablespoon

Dark Chocolate

1 cup

Slim Milk

1.25 cups

Other

Baking Soda

1 teaspoon

Water

1 cup

Directions

Preheat the oven at 150 degree C. Prepare a muffin tin with paper liner or grease with a little oil.

In a bowl, combine all the dry ingredients first.

In a separate bowl combine milk, water, vinegar and oil. Mix well.

Gradually add the wet mixture to the dry mixture. Whisk until well combined to form a thick batter.

Scoop batter into lined muffin tray, fill upto 3/4 leaving space for baking. Bake at 150 degree c for 15-17 min or until the toothpick comes out clean.

As the cupcakes are baking, make the chocolate ganache. Chop the chocolate and set aside in a bowl. Warm the milk and pour over the chopped chocolate. Mix well to combine both. This will form a thick chocolate icing (ganache). Keep the ganache in the fridge for 5-10 min or until it sets and gets a smooth creamy texture. Once done it is ready to use to frost the cake.

Let the cupcake cool down completely before frosting. Once the cupcakes are cooled down, frost it with chocolate ganache and serve.

Health Benefits of healthy chocolate cupcake

If you’re in need for an instant mood-booster, this healthy chocolate cupcake description will surely come to your aid. If you’re using almond or coconut flour, they provide healthy fats, proteins and fibre. Whole wheat flour fastens digestion and prevents constipation. Coconut sugar has insulin fibre that helps the body to metabolize it. Cacao powder contains more vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants that regulates blood sugar and blood circulation. Considering the healthy chocolate cupcake benefits, you can serve one cupcake for your toddler per day to cheer them up. With this tested quality, recipe learn how to make a healthy chocolate cupcake and upgrade your repertoire as a master baker.

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What is a Cupcake?

We all crave cakes every now then. But the problem with cakes is that they are too big for a single person to eat. Even if the cake is small-sized, it is just too big for one person to eat with enjoyment. And that is where a cupcake comes into play. A cupcake is a cake except that it is very small and is specially made for a single serving. If one cupcake or a single serving of cake sounds too little, you can eat as many cupcakes as you want to fulfil your appetite. Cupcakes are often eaten with other miniaturized foods. Most of the bakeries serve a line of such food items to give you a fully-fledged delicious experience. But thanks to the easy cupcake recipe, you do not have to visit bakeries every time you want to have a cupcake. You can convert almost any cake into a cupcake. There are some sponge cakes and tortes that are harder to convert, but generally, you can convert all types of cakes. And if you want to convert these sponge cakes and tortes into cupcakes, you will have to use specialized pans or moulds. Talking of cupcake recipes, the most famous one is the chocolate cupcake recipe. Since it is a very simple cupcake recipe, you can master it easily within a few tries. Once done, you can move on to other recipes.

How to Top a Cupcake (with Frosting & Ganache)

Frosting Method: 1. Prepare a batch of buttercream frosting and set it aside. 2. Take a decorative tip and slip its top into the bag. 3. Cut the bag's tip and fold down its top. 4. Hold the bag in your hand and start spooning in the frosting. 5. Make counter-clockwise circles with the frosting tip on the outside edge of the cupcake. 6. Make one circle on the other, and you will end with a small flourish at the top. Ganache Method: 1.Take fluted paper-lined cupcake pans and fill their ¾ volume with batter. 2.Take a cupcake and dip it upside down into a bowl filled with slightly warm liquid ganache. 3.Slightly press the cupcake and until the ganache touches the fluted paper surrounding the cupcake. 4.Pull up the cupcake and start rotating your hands. The circular motion will create a centrifugal force and excess ganache will fall back into the bowl. 5.Now, flip the cupcake and place it on a plate. Repeat the same process with all of your cupcakes. 6.After some time, the ganache will settle down. 7.You can refrigerate it to hasten the setting of the ganache.

How is a Cupcake different from a Muffin?

Putting it very simply, cupcakes are the miniature versions of their bigger counterpart cakes. This also means that their recipe will be heavily influenced by the recipe of the cake. For example, if you want a sugar free cupcake, its ingredients, mixing methods, the baking method will largely be the same as that of a sugar free cake. Similarly, if you want chocolate cupcakes, you will have to copy most of the steps from the chocolate cake recipe. And yes, frosting is also a major part of making cupcakes, be it a sugar free chocolate cupcake or funfetti cupcake. On the other hand, muffins have their own method of making, their own type of recipe that is very different from a cupcake or a cake. No matter what the flavour is or the type of muffin that you are going to make, its recipe is going to be very different from that of cupcakes. While making muffins, you have to mix the dry and wet ingredient families. You can find an easy cupcake recipe in which you have to mix the ingredients like that of muffin but there are some other differences too. For example, muffins usually have more fruit and less sugar. They are also made from whole grains. If you top your homemade muffin with crumb topping, it will still look and taste purely the way its ingredients were mixed.

Why is Dark Chocolate Better than Milk Chocolate?

The best part about homemade cupcakes is that you can replace not-so-healthy ingredients with very healthy ingredients. And talking about healthy ingredients, it is considered that dark chocolate is a healthier ingredient for making cupcakes than milk chocolate. But why is that? Here is an easy rule of thumb to find out whether a type of chocolate is healthy or not: the more processed it is, the more nutrition it will lose. Most of the chocolates get their health benefits from flavonols, which are phytonutrients present in cocoa. Flavonols have antioxidant effects but have a bitter taste. Chocolate is usually processed to neutralize this bitter taste. But, in the meantime, the flavonols also get destroyed making the chocolate a somewhat lesser healthier option for you. Dark chocolate is less processed as compared to milk chocolate and makes a good ingredient for adding in healthy cupcakes. Although it is true that milk chocolate is a little bit tastier than dark chocolate, the latter is way healthier than the former. So, while picking the ingredients for your best chocolate cupcake recipe, you choose the ingredient on your own.

Other Chocolate Dessert Recipes to Try

Once you learn how to make homemade cupcakes, your taste buds are going to demand more and more delicious food. Although making healthy cupcakes will always be an option, you can learn other healthy recipes so that you can taste something new. Here is a list of few other chocolate dessert recipes you can try once you master the chocolate cupcakes recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies: A chocolate chip cookie is like a cookie but with an extra taste of chocolate chips or chocolate morsels. If you are not a fan of dark and bitter chocolate, this is going to be one of your favourite foods as you can decrease the number of chocolate chips used to change the taste. Chocolate Ganache: Knowing how to make chocolate ganache becomes a life-changing moment for people who love to have chocolates. A chocolate ganache is nothing but pure chocolate (white, dark, or milk) and cream. The taste of this dessert is so rich and you will rarely find a dessert that can match its taste. Chocolate Mousse: The French name of this dessert might trick you into thinking that it is a hard-to-follow recipe but the truth is exactly the opposite. If you have a hand mixer and a rubber spatula in your kitchen, you can make this sweet and delicious dessert at your home very easily even if you are a total beginner. Chocolate Fudge: A fudge is like a sugar candy with butter, sugar, and milk as the main ingredients. Just like all other types of sugar candies, the option of flavours in fudge is endless. And the most loved option, obviously, is the chocolate fudge. You can easily alter the amount of sugar and chocolate according to your taste. Cashew Frosting: This one is probably the healthiest chocolate dessert on the list. With nutrient-rich raw cashews as the main ingredient, cashew frosting contains manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, copper and vitamin K in large amounts. Apart from that, it also has antiviral and antibacterial properties.

Done with the reading part? Now is the time to follow our easy yet best cupcake recipe and prepare delicious and healthy chocolate cupcakes on your own.