Healthy Recipe: Red Velvet Cupcakes

Although red velvet cake has a mild chocolate flavor, it is not, by definition, a chocolate cake. Rather, it's a devil's food cake that's made with cocoa, white vinegar, baking soda, and buttermilk.

INGREDIENTS:

All-purpose flour  2 cups

Wheat flour  ½ cup

Sugar  1 cup

Cocoa powder 1 T.

Baking soda  1 tsp.

Salt  1 tsp.

Buttermilk, nonfat  1 cup

Vegetable oil  ½ cup

Plain yogurt, nonfat  ½ cup

Eggs, large  2 each

Vanilla extract 1 ½ tsp.

White distilled vinegar  1 tsp.

Red food coloring   2 T.

STEPS:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.


• In medium size bowl, sift all dry ingredients.

• In stand mixer bowl or other mixing bowl; add buttermilk, vegetable oil and non-fat plain yogurt.


• Alternate between adding the dry mix and the two eggs.


• Then add the vanilla extract, red food coloring, and vinegar.

• Mix until batter is well mixed; scrap the sides of the bowl to make sure all dry ingredients are incorporated.


• Spray two muffin pans with non-stick pan spray or a cup cake pan.

• Pour batter as evenly as you can into each cake pan (batter will be slightly runny).

• Bake in oven for about 14 to 17 minutes.

NUTRITION:

SERVINGS 16; SERVING SIZE 1 cupcake; CALORIES 195 kcal; FAT 6gm