Chocolate Yogurt Cupcakes
By: Ruchi Mathur
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 10:17am

Ingredients




3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup oil (canola or olive)
1/2 cup yogurt
1 small jar Heinz pear baby food (thats the only pureed fruit I had lying around)
1/4 cup Hershey's cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg (optional)
 cup small chocolate chips (on my son's insistence!)

Preparation

1 Beat the oil and sugar together. Add egg and beat till fluffy. (I used a wooden spoon for all my mixing and definitely do not over mix. 2 Then add the yogurt and the pear puree and beat well for a couple of minutes or use your electric mixer. 3 Now to this add the dry ingredients - bit by bit (sifted mixture of the two flours and cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder). 4 In the end add the chocolate chips. 5 Bake for 20 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 177 F. 6 I must say they tasted great warm with a slight drizzle of low fat cream mixed with some cocoa powder and a spoonful of icing sugar! Cold - they were not that great - so maybe I will try it again without the whole wheat flour.