Sugar Free Chocolate Cupcakes
This quick and easy sugar free chocolate cupcakes recipe is homemade with simple ingredients. Super soft and moist and made with Splenda. These can be topped off with sugar free frosting or sugar free peanut butter and chocolate hazelnut spread.
Servings: 18 Cupcakes
Calories: 158kcal
Ingredients
- 1½ cups Cake flour Sifted
- ¼ cup Water Boiling
- ¼ cup Coffee Hot, Freshly brewed
- ½ cup Cocoa powder
- 1 cup Splenda Granulated or Splenda sugar blend
- ¾ cup Butter Unsalted
- 2 Eggs Large
- ¼ cup Milk Whole
- ½ teaspoon Baking soda
- ½ teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a small bowl, add boiling water, freshly brewed hot coffee, cocoa powder and milk. Mix everything until there are no lumps. Keep this chocolate mixture aside.
- In another bowl, mix together the eggs, butter and Splenda sugar until properly combined.
- Now, add the chocolate mixture (that you made in Step 1) and vanilla extract and mix again.
- In a another bowl, whisk together the cake flour, baking powder and baking soda. Dump this dry mixture into the wet mixture and mix until just combined. There may be some lumps. Don’t worry about them! Just don’t over-mix or else you will end up with rubbery, dense cupcakes.
- Add spoonfuls of this batter into cupcake liners and bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool to room temperature and then frost them in sugar free icing. You can also do what I did and spread half peanut butter and half sugar free chocolate hazelnut spread on top. Enjoy!
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Notes
- I used granulated Splenda in this recipe but I have also made these cupcakes with the Splenda sugar blend that has some sugar in it. Cupcakes made with granulated Splenda had a subtle bitterness but once you frost the cupcakes, you can’t really taste it anymore. Cupcakes made with Splenda sugar blend barely had the bitterness.
- Instead of sugar free spreads, ice these cupcakes with this sugar free frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 158kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 111mg | Potassium: 74mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 270IU | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 0.5mg