Saturday, 14 May 2011

11-Calorie Cupcakes

If you are a regular reader of my blog you may remember my ‘Week of Cake’, where I ate nothing but cake, and then there was my trip to the US where I ate my own body weight in waffles, cookies and pizza. Needless to say the jeans are feeling a bit snug, and so I’m having a detox which sadly leaves little room for sweet treats.

I developed this recipe with that in mind, instead of sugar I used pear & apple spread (100% fruit with no added sugar) and I left out the butter. It was a real experiment so I made a small amount of mixture to test – and somewhat surprisingly, not only did they cook like normal cakes they also tasted great.



Ingredients
1 egg
25g pear & apple spread
25g wholemeal flour
⅓ tsp baking powder
½ tsp cinnamon
(my mixture made 20 mini cupcakes)

Step 1
Separate the eggs into 2 small bowls. Whisk the whites into stiff peaks.
Step 2
Add the fruit spread to the egg yolk and whisk until creamy.
Step 3
Using a metal spoon fold the egg whites and flour mixture (flour, baking powder and cinnamon) alternatively into the yolks.
Step 4
Bake in a preheated 180°C/Gas 4 oven for 8 minutes.

The cakes had a light texture because of the lack of butter and the cinnamon complimented the fruit spread well. Plus, each cake has a mere 11 calories so I can definitely have second helpings...

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