The base didn't have Not Nutella but has cocoa powder in it. Has anyone seen any low fat cocoa powder? I do prefer to stick with Bournville but might try some Skinny Cow or Weight Watchers drinking chocolate next time, with a touch of coffee to really bring out the chocolate flavour. I was a bit worried that the mixture looked really runny - hoped it wasn't the margarine throwing off the chemical balance...
But after their alloted twenty minutes they looked pretty good!
I then cored the middles out and filled it with Not Nutella and topped them with chocolate frosting.
I was experimenting with 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' in both the cake and the frosting. In the cake it seemed to work fine but the intial batch of frosting I did just became a horrible goopy mess. It was like gross runny custard. And when you tasted it, you certainly could tell it wasn't butter (in fact you could certainly tell it was full of chemicals - yuk!!). So with the second try I went with Stork instead of butter (mainly because I didn't have any in the fridge) and it worked much better. Had to add a little more icing sugar to get it just right but they've come out beautifully. And you save nearly 100 calories per cake because there's no butter in the cupcake base. Total calorie bargin :-)
Weight Watchers ProPoints: 10
Calories: 292
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