Healthy Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes

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These Healthy Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes will restore your faith in gluten-free baked goods. They’re so, so soft and fluffy, they’re moist and won’t crumble between your fingers like sand, and they taste just like all cupcakes should — rich and sweet with comforting tones of vanilla bean in every bite.

These aren’t just ANY cupcakes… these are HEALTHY Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes!

I first posted a recipe for Healthy Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes back in 2013. While they were decent, I will admit, they were pretty delicate (I was a newbie to gluten-free baking back then!), and the recipe required too many steps and ingredients. Over the years, I always felt like I should revamp the recipe, and finally got down to it last week.

When I think of cupcakes, the first thing that pops into my head is a big tray full of the sweetest, cloud-like pillows of fluffy, cakey goodness topped with copious amounts of frosting.

Then I immediately flashback to my childhood where I’d pound back cupcake after cupcake, and then when I was in a food-/sugar-coma, ask myself why I felt so sick and uncomfortable. Well, DUH, old Jessica! It was all that white sugar, bleached flour, and artificial flavors!

Thankfully, we can say goodbye to all the typical nasty cupcake ingredients and say hello to the healthy ingredients used to make these Healthy Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes!

To make these cupcakes easier to make with a better texture, I made the following changes:

Increased Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk, 1 cup to 1¼ cups
Increased Double Acting Baking Powder, 1 tsp to 2 tsp
Reduced Baking Soda, ½ tsp to ¼ tsp
Reduced Granulated Erythritol, ¾ cup to ½ cup
Replaced ½ cup Brown Rice Flour, ½ cup Quinoa Flour + ? cup Almond Flour + ¼ cup Arrowroot Starch with 1 cup Sorghum Flour + 1 cup Oat Flour
Replaced 3 tbs Applesauce + 3 tbs Oil with 1 cup Applesauce
Omitted ½ tsp Xanthan Gum
Omitted 2 tbs Ground Flaxseed
Added 2 Egg Whites
Added 1 tsp Stevia Extract

The result of these changes? DAMN DELICIOUS Healthy Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes! They’re sweet, buttery, moist, and fluffy, and packed with vanilla flavor. Best of all, you’d never know these are healthy and guilt-free with just 90 calories per cupcake!

14 cupcakes

Healthy Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

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Fat per serving: 1g

Calories per serving: 90

Ingredients:

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line your cupcake pans with 14 parchment paper or silicone liners (or you can spray the tins with cooking spray, but I think these will stick to traditional paper liners).
In a small bowl, whisk together the sorghum flour, oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In a stand mixer bowl with beater attachment, add the almond milk, applesauce, erythritol, egg whites, vanilla extract, butter flavor, stevia extract, and almond extract. Mix on low speed for about one minute.
Turn off the mixer, dump in the dry ingredients, and return to low speed. Increase speed to medium and mix until almost completely smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix one last time.
Scoop batter into prepared cupcake pans and bake for ~25 minutes, or until the surface of the cupcakes spring back when tapped. Transfer cupcakes to a wire cooling rack and let cool completely. Frost and serve!

Notes:

Here is the recipe’s nutrition label (does not include frosting):

Can you believe it?? 90-CALORIE CUPCAKES THAT TASTE LIKE 900-CALORIE CUPCAKES!

It’s not always about the nutrition label, calorie content, or grams of fat, though… it’s about the quality and nutritional value of the ingredients in the recipe. We should always be able to enjoy dessert without feeling guilty or undergoing a sugar crash.

These Healthy Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes are made with top notch, nutritious ingredients. It’s just a bonus that they’re sugar free and low fat too. This truly is a dessert with benefits! ?