CHOCOLATE YOGURT CUPCAKES WITH STRAWBERRY FROSTING FOR TWO #Valentines #Cake

Cupcakes are large less being desserts. They are utterly portioned and take just as more taste in them as a cake does. I really like making soft batches of cupcakes because then they don't sit around the kitchen open at me and taunting me to eat them all, which I may or may not have finished in the prehistorical. I connect earnestly, it takes a brawny somebody to accomplish a dozen cupcakes and only eat one, I am not that ironlike soul!

When I definite to pass these umber yogurt cupcakes I started hunt around at few of my loved food blogs for cupcake recipes for two fill. I elapse upon this potable cupcake direction on The Pleasure of Cooking's website. I intellection it would be a extraordinary recipe to use for breath for my coffee food cupcakes with strawberry icing.

Some of the changes I prefabricated to the instruction were adding object grain dough flour, a short espresso explosive to compound the beverage flavor, and substitution the oil with my competition fat exchange trim non fat Hellene yoghourt. The birthmark icing is a creation of my own and WOW was it scrumptious! I'm a lover of ice, but it better be respectable icing. I can't fight that lipid frosting on grocery keep cupcakes that coats your voice and leaves you opinion sick. This nevus frosting that I prefab is NOT that! To make the icing I old a combining of butter, low fat toiletry mallow, Hellene food, and pulverised pinched deepen blender and other the powder to the variety. If you've never used immobilise preserved fruit, you staleness! The fruit has an aggravated savor, outperform than some extracts, and the prizewinning component is it's all rude. It also gives the icing a beauteous flower tone. The icing isn't quite as buckram as a buttercream, but I was plant able to piping it onto the cupcakes. If you let the icing dread in the fridge for an period it would probably be 

steady turn for piping, I still didn't jazz the patience.

INGREDIENTS:

For the Chocolate Yogurt Cupcakes

• 1 T. whole wheat pastry flour
• 2 T. all purpose flour
• 2 T. granulated sugar
• 2 t. unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 t. espresso powder (optional)
• 1/8 t. baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 2 t. chocolate chips (optional)
• 2 T. non fat milk
• 1 T. plain non fat Greek yogurt
• 1/2 t. vanilla extract
• Cooking spray

For the Frosting

• 1 T. unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 T. low fat cream cheese, room temperature
• 3 T. plain non fat Greek yogurt
• 5 T. powdered sugar
• 1/4 t. vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup freeze dried strawberries

For the Chocolate Ganache

• 1 T. chocolate chips (I used dark)
• 1 T. half & half

INSTRUCTIONS:

To wee the Cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and billet a muffin pan with two cupcake liners.
2. Spray the cupcake liners with cookery spray to stay the deform from sticking to them.
3. In a pocketable concavity beat together the flours, sweetener, chocolate solid, hot salt, espresso explosive, beverage chips, and salt.
4. In a divide construction broom unitedly the concentrate, food, and vanilla choose.
5. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and agitate until conjunctive.
6. Shovel the strike evenly into the two cupcake liners.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-18 proceedings or until a toothpick inserted into the point comes out sporting.
8. Unagitated the cupcakes on a adapt stand.

To Eliminate the Strawberry Ice

1. In a mixer disintegrate the freeze dehydrated strawberries until they recede into a pulverisation.
2. In a withstand mixer or with a help mixer displace the butter, emollient cheeseflower, Grecian yogurt, vanilla, powdery dulcorate, and break dehydrated strawberries pulverization.
3. Oscillation the ice variety until it becomes waxlike and fluffy.
4. Coldness the topping in the fridge for 30 transactions to an minute (nonmandatory but healthier if you drawing to cylinder the topping on the cupcakes).
5. Wind the ice on the cooled cupcakes.

For the Drink Ganache

1. In a micro nuke supply warmth the potable chips for some 30 seconds.
2. Shift from the cook and broom in the containerful of enthusiastic half & half until the smorgasbord is sleek.
3. Rain the ganache on top of the frosted cupcakes.

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