Skinny Red Velvet Cupcakes

These cupcakes are so delicious and so RED! You won't believe they are 'skinny'. They are not too sweet but the things that sends them over the top to deliciousville is the cream cheese icing.

Here they are, just iced, oh, and I added a few little sprinkles to make them even more festive.

Look at the colour of the batter. Just incredible!

Look at how luscious these look right out of the oven....they look just like red velvet, right?

Here they are all done up and sprinkled!

Skinny Red Velvet Cupcakes (from skinnytaste.com)

Servings:26 (I made 22 instead), Calories:141 (if you made 22 instead they would be 166 calories each)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups cake flour

1 cup white whole wheat flour

1 cup sugar

1 tbsp unsweetened dutch-process cocoa ( I would add another tbsp)

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp white vinegar

1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 egg

2 egg whites

2 tsp vanilla

1 1/3 cup light buttermilk

1 tbsp red food coloring

Preheat  oven to 350. Line cupcake tins with liners. In a large mixing bowl, stir together flours, salt, cocoa, and baking powder. In another large bowl beat sugar, applesauce and butter.  Beat in eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl mix baking soda and vinegar.  Add half of the dry ingredients into the egg mixture, mix well. Add buttermilk, red food coloring and mix well. Add the remaining dry ingredients and fold in vinegar and baking soda.  Pour in prepared cupcake liners 3/4 of the way. Bake 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool, then frost with low fat cream cheese frosting.

Low Fat Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz 1/3 fat Philadelphia Cream Cheese (I just used light)

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

Beat together cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth.  

Here we are enjoying a tray full of them for my mom and brother-in-law's birthday celebration!