Guilt-Free Martha Stewarts Devils Food Cupcakes

I love making these guilt-free Martha Stewarts Devils Food Cupcakes.  I have adjusted the recipes a bit so they are made with nutritious ingredients and have much less sugar than what a regular recipe would call for.   I like making them into small cupcake sizes (portion control) and I actually allow my kids to eat these for breakfast since they're made out of oat, whole wheat and graham flour as opposed to the white flour they call for in the recipe.  I also like to serve them at birthday parties replacing birthday cake, it's so much easier to serve.  The birthday cupcake displays can be so versatile, depending on what your child is into that year.  Read on to find out what I'm talking about.

Guilt-Free Martha Stewarts Devils Food Cupcakes

Dry ingredient:

• 1 cup of whole wheat flour
• 1 cup of oat flour,
• 1 cup of graham flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda and
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder,
• 1 ¼ teaspoons of salt

Mix everything together:Wet Ingredients - melt 1 ½ unsalted butter with 1 ¼ cups of brown sugar: 

Mix to combine:

Add 4 eggs and 1tablespoon of vanilla extract:

Mix well:

Meanwhile, add ¾ cup of unsweetened cocoa powder with ¾ cup of hot water:

combine until all the lumps are out and this becomes a nice smooth consistency:

Combine:

While mixing, add, alternating dry ingredients with 1 cup of plain yogurt:

Fill paper-lined cups with batter:

Bake for 20 min at 350F.  Test the cupcakes by putting a fork into the cupcake.  If the fork comes out full of batter like this, that means it's not ready.  Bake for another 5 minutes:

Once the fork comes out clean, the cupcakes are ready:

Place them onto wire racks to cool:

Now the fun part, decorate!

Mario & Pokemons:

Plain and elegant: Luigi:

Fun: Sponge Bob:'Till next time!

xox Lily.

2013-11-21