Redsie's Lemon Yogurt Cupcakes, (Light Version)

Submitted by MarraMamba

"Redsie kindly let me change her scrumptious Recipe #235204 around to be low cal, low carb, low fat, good for diabetics while still moist, delicious and bursting with flavor. I added 1 cup of cranberries to make up the volume that i lose by substituting splenda but you can leave it out."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1 1⁄4 cups flour, plus
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup Splenda sugar substitute
• 1⁄4 cup butter (or 25% reduced-fat butter, melted and cooled)
• 1⁄4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1⁄4 cup egg substitute (or 1 egg)
• 1⁄2 cup nonfat yogurt, plain
• 2 teaspoons lemon zest, grated
• 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon extract
• 1 cup cranberries

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F and use muffin pan, lined with paper liners.
2. In a small bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and salt.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, butter, applesauce and egg until smooth. Add yogurt, lemon zest and juice and lemon extract, beating until smooth. Add flour mixture, beating just until smooth. Fold in cranberries.
4. Scoop batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 22 to 25 minutes or until tops of cupcakes spring back when lightly touched. Let cool in pan on rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool completely on rack.
5. Top cooled cupcakes with your favorite icing.

Reviews

[Engrossed]

Great job Marra! I LOVE lemon desserts so had to try these. I used whole wheat flour for the 1T, 3/4 Splenda granular and 2T Splenda brown sugar blend to hide the aftertaste. I also used regular butter and an egg. I added in frozen cranberries but think I would have preffered raspberries, strawberries or even semi-sweet chocolate chips. These would have been really small if it wasn't for adding the cranberries but then I couldn't get very much cake in between them so it was realllly tart. My co-workers all really loved these though. I baked them in greased muffin tins. Made for the Zaar tag game.

 

[CulinaryQueen]

123 Hit Wonders 2007 ~ Oh my, these are yummy! I couldn't wait for them to cool completely so I'm sitting here having one with a cuppa tea. I did use regular sugar in place of the Splenda (I don't buy this)and added raspberries in lieu of cranberries. Thanks Marra!