Orange and Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes

Orange and Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes

prep 20 mins

cook 25 mins

total 45 mins

yield 12 cupcakes

This recipe is vegetarian, Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly

·      Extra Easy - 3.5 syns per cupcake

·      WW Smart Points - 3

Ingredients

·      150g/1 cup of plain flour 

·      4 level tbs (20g) of 100% pure cocoa powder 

·      1/2 cup of sukrin: 1 (or use another sweetener of choice) 

·      1 tsp of baking powder

·      1/2 tsp of baking soda

·      pinch of salt

·      1/2 cup of fat-free plain yoghurt

·      1 tsp of orange extract

·      2 eggs

·      1/4 cup of silk cashew milk or Alpro chocolate milk 

·      spray oil

for the icing:

·      2/3 cup of quark or blended fat-free cottage cheese

·      2 level tbs of icing sugar 

·      1 tbs of chocolate spread 

·      orange food colour (I prefer a paste, as it stops the icing from going too thin.

·      few drops of orange extract (to taste)

Instructions

1.   Preheat oven to 180c or 350f (gas mark 4)

2.   Add the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and a pinch of salt to a bowl, mix to combine.

3.   In a separate bowl add the eggs, chocolate milk, orange extract, yoghurt and sukrin and whisk until smooth.

4.   Add this to the flour mixture and fold till well combined.

5.   Spoon into 12 muffin cases, sprayed with a little spray oil.

6.   Place in the oven and bake for approx 25 mins, a skewer entered into the centre should come out clear.

7.   Once cooked, cover over with a clean tea towel while they cool down, this helps the cupcakes to stay nice and moist. 

8.   Once cooled you can make the icing, combine the quark, icing sugar and orange extract, add a little bit of orange food colouring at a time until you have desired orange colour.

9.   Add this to a small sandwich bag on one side, then add the chocolate spread next to it in the bag, so you have a kind of strip of icing and a thin stripe of the chocolate spread cho(don't worry it doesn't need to be perfect.).

10. Squeeze the bag, so that you push all the icing to one corner, then carefully snip off a small piece of the corner. 

11. You can then roughly pipe the icing onto the top of the cupcakes.

12. Use a wooden skewer to make a rough marble swirl on the top of the cupcakes and add the sprinkles.

13. Enjoy!!

                                 

Source http://www.slimmingeats.com

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