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Low Fat Chocolate Cupcakes

A lighter no-butter chocolate cupcakes

Ingredients
  

  • 200 gram self raising flour
  • 200 gram light muscovado sugar
  • 6 tbsp cocoa powder Unsweetened
  • 150 ml vegetable oil or other flavourless oil, e.g. canola
  • 100 ml soured cream or greek yoghurt
  • 2 eggs medium
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 100 ml water
  • 50 gram choc chips or raisins, nuts

Equipment

  • 12-hole muffin tin

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 180'C, line your muffin tin (it'll make 10 muffin-sized cake) or bun tin (makes 24).
  2. Whisk everything apart from the choc chips together, with electric mixer until smooth with no lumps.
  3. Gently fold in the choc chips.
  4. Fill the tin to half or 2/3 full (tops!), otherwise it'll all spill out!
  5. Bake for 20 mins if you're using a muffin tin, or 12 minutes if you're using a bun tin.
  6. To test if they are cooked, stick a skewer in and if it comes out clean, it's cooked! Or when it springs back after you pressed it lightly. If it's not cooked, back in the oven for another 3 mins.
  7. Take them out of the oven. Wait for a minute or two then lift them out onto a cooling rack.