The Best Healthy Red Velvet Cupcakes

🧂 Ingredients

• Light Cream Cheese Frosting

  cream cheese frosting recipe [https://dessertdonelight.com/light-cream-cheese-frosting/]
• 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons whole wheat pastry flour*
• ½ cup coconut sugar*
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspooon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs

  room temperature
• ½ cup low-fat buttermilk*
• ⅓ cup canola oil

  or vegetable oil
• ⅓ cup Greek yogurt

  plain or vanilla
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon stevia*

  optional, see notes
• liquid or gel red food coloring*

  optional

Instructions

• 1 Prepare the cream cheese frosting
  [https://dessertdonelight.com/light-cream-cheese-frosting/] and refrigerate
  until ready to use. The recipe makes enough to frost 14 cupcakes. If you like a
  lot of frosting, then you may want to double the recipe.
• 2 Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Line a standard 12-cup muffin pan with paper
  liners and spray them with non-stick spray. This recipe makes 12-14 cupcakes,
  depending on how much batter you spoon into the muffin cups. So you may have two
  to make in the second batch.
• 3 Sift the flour, coconut sugar, cornstarch, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking
  soda, and salt together in a large bowl. Set aside.
• 4 In a medium-size bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, eggs, canola oil, Greek
  yogurt, vanilla extract, stevia, and red food coloring until combined.
• 5 Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and whisk together until smooth. Do
  not overmix.
• 6 Spoon the batter into the cupcake liners filling ½- ⅔ of the way full.
• 7 Bake for 14-18 minutes. They are ready when a toothpick comes out clean or with
  a few moist crumbs. Don't overbake as they will dry out. Allow them to cool in
  the pan for 5 minutes before removing them to a wire rack to cool completely.
• 8 Frost cooled cupcakes with the cream cheese frosting
  [https://dessertdonelight.com/light-cream-cheese-frosting/]. I used a wilton
  round tip [https://amzn.to/3nj5eqf]. I don't recommend a star tip as the
  frosting is too thin.
• 9 Enjoy! And don't forget to let me know what you think of the cupcakes in the
  comments.

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