Plus decorating a cupcake is a lot less intimidating than decorating a cake—I just need to swipe on a dab of frosting rather than getting all artsy-fartsy with a layer cake. Not Intimidated? But when you look at the numbers, the calories and fat are kind of scary.
You can practically have 2 homemade cupcakes for the amount of calories and fat you get in a single bakery cupcake! Plus when you make your own cupcakes, you can control the ingredients you put in no artificial anything, and all ingredients you can pronounce and make them more interesting and delicious and healthy if you add fruit or other flavorings to the batter.
Lucky for all of us, EatingWell Test Kitchen Manager Stacy Fraser has used her secrets for baking healthier cupcakes to create some incredible, healthier-for-you cupcake recipes.
I hope you enjoy them as much as we did! Let your imagination run wild, and decorate these amazing cupcakes in your favourite way.
Milk promotes strong bones. The Calcium in Milk helps to protect your teeth against gum disease and keeps your jaw bone strong and healthy. Milk is low in carbs and therefore does not raise blood glucose levels. However diabetics must consider including low fat milk as advised by their dietitian only so as to avoid any fluctuations in blood sugar levels.
Protein is another key nutrient which milk is rich in - 8. So all those looking to build protein stores can add milk and its products like curd and paneer to their diet. One cup of Milk gives 10 grams of carbs. Low fat milk has lower fat and the same benefits of milk.
Butter has short chain fatty acids and medium chain fatty acids which are broken down and absorbed into the body directly and go straight to the liver and get converted to fuel to be used by the muscles. Recent research shows that small amounts of butter has positive effects on heart health.
So diabetics too can have small quantity of butter and balance it with other types of fats they consume. A tbsp. This Vitamin A is a powerful antioxidant which is essential for glowing skin health and immune function. We suggest you read about butter the super food. Plain flour maida : This recipe uses plain flour or maida which is refined carb not suitable for healthy lifestyle. Maida consumption in any food should be totally avoided or just a little bit of usage as any consumption of this will cause a larger spike in blood levels which is not good for diabetics , heart patients.
The development of prediabetes comes from uncontrolled eating sugar and refined food products for many years and the classic symptom is if you have excess belly fat. This leads to diabetes and further onwards to heart attack, high blood pressure, strokes, impotence and kidney damage. Homemade cupcakes are cupcakes you whip up from scratch-flour, butter, eggs, sugar and all.
The number of calories in homemade cupcakes depends on how much batter you're making and how many cupcakes you're dividing that between-for example, are you using a standard cup muffin tin or something else? And then there's the frosting. Homemade cupcakes are high in sugar, but ingredients-wise they're "clean" because they don't contain any additives or preservatives. The ingredients are usually just butter, eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, vanilla and milk.
Get more: Healthy Cupcake Recipes. While no one considers cupcakes a health food, it can be difficult to know how many calories a cupcake actually has, depending on if it's homemade, store-bought or from a bakery. We break down the differences here and tell you which nutrients matter most. Total calories are important, but the type of calorie is important too.
Cupcakes are high in sugar and saturated fat, two nutrients that should be consumed in moderation. Women should stay under 24 grams of added sugar per day, and men should aim for less than 36 grams per day. Added sugar is any sugar that's not found naturally in foods like the natural sugar in fruit or milk.
Cupcakes can be made with a little milk, but the rest of the sugar in cupcakes is added sugar. The Dietary Guidelines still recommend limiting saturated fat in your diet to less than 10 percent of your daily calories and instead eating more healthy unsaturated fats. Ingredients are important, too, and can vary greatly depending on how a cupcake is made. The more whole foods in the ingredients list and the fewer the ingredients, the better. Pictured recipe: Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes.
A note on calories in homemade cupcakes: The calorie total will vary depending on the recipe you choose and how much frosting you add to your cupcake.
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