They taste sinfully delicious when frosted with my Skinny Cream Cheese Frosting.
One of these dreamy cakes has 220 calories, 5g fat and 10 Weight Watchers SmartPoints. Without frosting, 6 SmartPoints. Just one of Sprinkles Red Velvet cupcakes has 497 calories and almost 27 grams of fat!
Prep Time: 15 minutes (including the frosting)
Bake time: 25-35 minutes
Ingredients for Cake:
- 1 box Duncan Hines Devils Food Cake Mix
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 (3.4 oz) package of instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup buttermilk
- ½ cup warm water
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 ounce bottle of red food coloring
- 2 eggs, I love Egg-Land’s Best eggs
- 2 egg whites
Ingredients for Skinny Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 ounces (½ of an 8 ounce package of reduced-fat cream cheese), see shopping tip
- 1½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon reduced-fat milk
- Valentine candy for decorations, if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray. Line the cups with cupcake papers.
- In an electric mixer or using a hand mixer, combine all of the cupcake ingredients except the eggs and whites. Beat well.
- Add the eggs and egg whites and beat well.
- Fill each cupcake cup just to the top. Do not mound or over fill.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let them cool before frosting. Bake the remaining 6 cupcakes and cool.
- To make the frosting-using a mixer, whip the cream cheese until smooth. Add the powder sugar, milk and mix until smooth. It should be quite thick.
- Frost each cupcake and decorate with a Valentine candy, red and pink sugar or sprinkles, if desired.
- Store in the refrigerator.
Makes 18 cupcakes
Food Fact
Some food historians think red velvet cake originated as a devil’s food cake. Chocolate devil’s food cakes became very popular in the early 1900s. Though some believe a chemical reaction between the old-style baking sodas and processed cocoa powders sometimes gave the cake a red tint, this phenomenon is actually created by adding a generous amount of red coloring.
Shopping Tip
You’ll fine decorative cupcake papers or festive candies at most supermarkets or crafts stores such as Michael’s.
Substitution Tip
You can prepare the cake batter and bake in a Bundt pan instead of the making cupcakes. Coat a Bundt pan with cooking spray. Fill cake pan evenly with batter.
Bake for 55-60 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. When cake is cooled a little, remove from pan.
Cool completely and drizzle frosting over the top of the cake.
Storage Tip
These cupcakes freeze great. I love to bake a recipe, let cool and frost. Once the frosting sets, freeze in plastic containers.
When ready to eat, zap in the microwave for about 40 seconds.
If you’re using foil lined cupcake papers, be sure to remove them before heating in microwave. Or, let them defrost on the kitchen counter.
Weight Watchers SmartPoints 10(with frosting)
Weight Watchers SmartPoints 6(without frosting)
Weight Watchers POINTS PLUS 6 (with frosting)
Weight Watchers POINTS PLUS 4 (without frosting)
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