Tuesday, October 20, 2009



So I made some Weight Watchers Halloween Cupcakes this past Saturday for a BBQ. The ingredients and the recipe are a little difficult but not TOO bad.

Ingredients:

Cooking Spray
2 1/2 Cups all purpose flour
2 Cups Splenda
1 Cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp table salt
1 Cup fat-free egg substitute
2 Cups water
1 Cup light corn syrup

That's all just the DRY ingredients. Then we have the icing:

1 1/2 Cups sugar
1/2 Cup water
2 medium egg whites
1/2 tsp table salt
1 Tbsp light corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tsp decorating icing in orange

Now for the Instructions:

  • Preheat oven to 350ºF. Coat two 12-hole muffin tins with cooking spray and line with cupcake wrappers.*

  • In a large bowl, combine flour, Splenda, cocoa, cornstarch, baking soda and 1 teaspoon of salt; set aside.

  • In a medium bowl, whisk together egg substitute, 2 cups of water and 1 cup of light corn syrup.

  • Spoon egg mixture into flour mixture and mix until completely smooth and incorporated.

  • Pour batter into muffin tins until each hole is completely full. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Allow to cool completely.

  • While cupcakes cool, make frosting: Heat a medium pot of water to boiling.

  • In a medium metal or glass bowl, beat sugar, 1/2 cup of water, egg whites, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of corn syrup and vanilla extract with an electric mixer on high speed for 1 minute.

  • Place bowl of frosting over rapidly boiling water (you are creating a double boiler) and beat at high speed until the mixture forms soft peaks, about 7 to 10 minutes.

  • Remove frosting from heat and beat on high speed until mixture is thick enough to spread, about 5 minutes. Frost cupcakes, create a spider web-like design on each with icing and decorate as desired. Yields 1 cupcake per serving.
I will say that making the icing was probably the best part! I wasn't expecting to make a marshmellow icing. I just thought it was so awesome that I made home made marshmellow! Oh man it was awesome. The actual cupcake itself could have been sweeter (of course because I LOVE sweet stuff) but on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worse) I would give it 5. It wasn't just like OH MY GOSH AMAZING!!! But it was good.




































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