Healthy Pumpkin-Orange Cupcakes
By: Sweet Laab
Published: Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 4:19am

Ingredients




Dough :
2 eggs
1/2 cup cane sugar (or add to taste)
1/3 cup olive oil, or by choice
1/3 to 1/2 cup whole milk
2 tsp baking powder without phosphate (preferably composed of tartar, baking soda and starch)
1 2/3 cup all purpose flour ·
1 1/2 cup pumpkin purée (from roasted pumpkin Hokkaido)
3 tbsp concentrated orange juice (or orange syrup)
A pinch of white pepper
A pinch of nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
Cream :
250 g mascarpone
250 g low-fat cottage cheese or curd (solid with 0.5% fat)
140 g Greek plain non-fat yogurt
8 tbsp cane sugar (or to taste)
2 tbsp grated orange peel from organic oranges or cleaned (with baking soda)
Garnish :
Orange star candies
Orange caramel
See recipe at http://danieladanaphotographer.blogspot.sk/2015/12/healthy-pumpkin-orange-cupcakes-zdrave.html

Preparation

1 Dough: 2 1. Combine sugar, eggs, oil, and then add the milk and mix 3 2. Stir in sifted flour with baking powder 4 3. Add spices, salt, and juice 5 4. Stir in pumpkin puree that was made from the roasted pumpkin that was cut into small cubes and mixed with 2 tbsp olive oil; cubes on the rack were baked for 30 min. at 180 oC (360 oF), or until soft and slightly roasted 6 5. Fill the paper cups for cupcakes to 3/4 of the volume, then put them into a mold for 12 muffins / cupcakes, bake for about 45-60 min. at 180 oC (360 oF) , or until a toothpick stays clean when it´s pulled from the center of a cupcake 7 Filling : 8 1. Remove all the water and whey, which can be in yogurt or cottage cheese 9 2. Combine all components and blend with a hand blender to make an airy filling 10 3. Allow it to cool and solidify 11 4. Apply the filling using a confectionery pocket on 12 chilled cupcakes 12 5. Place it in the refrigerator, so that the cream remains firm on the cupcakes 13 6. Garnish with orange candies and orange caramel

About

The following cupcake recipe uses a reduced-fat mixture of mascarpone, low-fat cottage cheese (curd), and non-fat Greek yogurt as the filling. It´s colored with orange Hokkaido pumpkin, overloaded with vitamin A, as well as with a fresh orange flavor. Garnishing with the low-fat orange caramel and orange star candies  may make this cupcake also good for Christmas fancy cakes.