Chocolate Cupcakes with Whipped Chocolate Frosting Lower-Calorie
I’m the biggest chocolate lover around. Actually, I have the biggest sweet tooth around, with chocolate being a top favorite. These chocolate cupcakes fulfill both needs! The sponge is super moist and the whipped frosting is fluffy and full of chocolate flavor. Since I love sweets and chocolate, I really enjoyed developing a recipe that gave me both.
Making the chocolate cake is so simple, and the best part is there are only 3 ingredients involved. The chocolate cake mix, vanilla Greek yogurt, and water – that’s it! It doesn’t get too much easier than that. The frosting is also simple to make. I make the frosting while the cupcakes are cooling. That’s how quickly it comes together. From start to finish these cupcakes with frosting, are ready in under 30 minutes!
These cupcakes make a great party dessert, for kids and adults alike. You can make this recipe into a cake if you prefer instead of cupcakes. I’ve made these for my friends and family and they are never able to tell if they’re my low-calorie treats or not. That’s when I know a recipe is a winner. It’s just as wonderful as a cupcake you’d buy in a cupcake shop. The frosting is a cream cheese-based frosting and it’s also rich and delicious.
I hope you enjoy this chocolate cupcakes with whipped chocolate frosting recipe as much as we do. It’s cost effect, quick, healthier, and delicious. Not too many combos better than that.
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Calories per serving (1 cupcake with frosting): 134
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Chocolate Cupcakes with Whipped Chocolate Frosting Lower-Calorie
Ingredients
- 1 15.25 oz box chocolate cake mix I used Devil's Food cake mix
- 1 cup fat free vanilla Greek yogurt
- 1 cup water
- 1 package sugar free, fat free instant chocolate pudding
- 1 3/4 cup skim milk
- 8 oz block cream cheese
- 1 container lite whipped topping
Instructions
For Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350°. Place cupcake liners into cupcake pans.
- In a large bowl, mix together cake mix, water, and Greek yogurt. Mix for about 1 minute or until well blended. DIvide mixture into 24 cupcake liners.
- Bake for 14 minutes. Check with toothpick in center to see if done. Let cool.
For Frosting
- In medium bowl, combine pudding mix and milk. Mix well.
- In medium bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add pudding and mix well. Fold in whipped topping.
- Top cupcakes with frosting. Enjoy!
Nutrition
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I’m Erika; food lover and blogger. I live in Arizona, and I’ve recently started taking up photography as a hobby. My life pretty much revolves around food and my family and I wouldn’t change a thing!
I used to have a cupcake business when I lived overseas. Man it’s hard not to taste every cupcake! That’s why I’m loving your “healthier” cupcake recipe. I will be trying this very soon!
I would want to taste every cupcake too! I hope you enjoy these. 🙂
What a great quick and healthier option for chocolate cupcakes. You had me at 3 ingredients and lower calories.
Thanks! They are super yummy!
A low calorie option is exactly what I needed! Now I can have my cake and eat it too…without the guilt when I eat more than one!
Exactly, and it’s so hard to eat only one sometimes. 😉
Yum! Now I’m craving me a chocolate cupcake! And I love the whipped frosting, too.
Thanks! They make a pretty delicious combo!
Loved the recipe with the use of greek yogurt. I should definitely give this recipe a try sometime. Chocolates make everything taste delicious, don’t they?
It absolutely does! I’m up for anything chocolate. 🙂
Interesting to use pudding mix in the frosting, but it sounds delicious! And so low kcal as well, great!
It makes a great frosting, and low-cal is always a plus. 😉
Oh chocolate, my love… these sound amazing and I love how simple the recipe is, and ofcourse the fact that they are low carb.
Thanks! Everyone loves them and they don’t even taste like they’re missing anything. 🙂
Using greek yogurt and sugar-free chocolate pudding in this recipe are brilliant ways to cut down on some of the extra calories and sugar! These cupcakes look perfectly moist and delicious!
Thanks so much, Jenni!
I am all about the cupcakes so this is right up my alley. Anything ready in under 30 mins is ok in my books
Thanks! 🙂
Nothing is better than chocolate anything! these cupcakes look so delicious and fluffy!
Thank you so much! 🙂
I am a big chocolate lover, too! Time for chocolate cupcakes then, huh? Really looking forward to making these this weekend!
Thank you, Mirlene. I hope you enjoy them!
This is definitely a great one to try. I really like chocolate cupcakes but when you add chocolate frosting to them, they are hard to beat!
For sure! Thanks so much! 🙂
Wow your chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting are this chocoholics dream! Love that these have Greek yogurt and are low calorie. Means I can eat more!
Thanks! They are really good and perfect for chocolate lovers. 🙂
This recipe is super quick to make and it looks amazing. Love quick and delicious ideas and this goes on my list to make. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks, Ramona. I hope you enjoy it. 🙂
I don’t like heavily frosted cakes. Your version of low-calorie frosting sounds great. It looks delicious too.
Thank you! It is delicious. 🙂