Single Serving Chocolate Cupcakes

I am not a cook. I do enjoy cooking.... eh, kinda. & I hate cleaning up afterwards!

With that said, I am officially on a mission. A mission to learn to cook healthy, yet delicious kid-friendly foods. LCHAD'ers are on low-fat diets but not just any low-fat diet they still need calories for energy. So, we need foods with lots of carbs and calories but little fat. It's challenging.

I'll do my best to document this mission along the way and share things I learn with you. If you have any advice or recipes to pass along please share!

The first recipe I have to share with you is from The Comfort of Cooking I just tweaked one ingredient to make it LCHAD friendly. I was looking for a recipe for one or two cupcakes that was LCHAD friendly, something easy enough that I could make and take with us to birthday parties we are invited too so they can partake in cake and we don't have to worry about the ingredients.  The Comfort of Cooking has Nutella frosting to go with this recipe if your interested, I haven't gotten to the point of making icing yet. First things first and her frosting recipe has butter in it so I know its high in fat.

Single Serving Chocolate Cupcakes 

Yields: 2 cupcakes

Fat content and calories depend on exact ingredients you use, mine ended up being less than 1g per cupcake! 

Ingredients:

- 3 tablespoons flour

- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar

- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

- 1/8 teaspoon salt

- 3 tablespoons skim milk

- 1 tablespoon MCT oil

- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

*For non-LCHAD folks use vegetable or canola oil instead of MCT oil
 

Pre heat over to 350 degrees. Either line your cupcake pan with a paper liner or you can spray with non-stick cooking spray.

Mix together all the ingredients. (I was going for simple so I used a regular bowl and fork to mix everything) Divide evenly and cook for 20-22 minutes.

*I was anxious, I pulled them out of the oven too soon so the center sunk a little, still delicious!