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The Love Chapters | Day 20 | Sugarless, Flourless, Chocolate & Coconut Cupcake Recipe ♥

“Choco-coco Cupcakes”, “Coconut Cupcakey Goodness”,…”Chocolate-Peanut-Butter-Coconut-Sugarless-Flourless-but-Still-Delicious Cupcakes”. As you can see, we still workin’ on the name… banging our heads on the drawing board with that one…lol.

My girl Ivana and I got super brave yesterday and decided we wanted to make some sugarless…flourless treats. Now… HOW do you make something taste GOOD without SUGAR, FOR PETE’S SAKE. ARE YOU INSANE.

We settled on this recipe…Keep in mind that you will not be nomming on an Double-chocolate-triple-chunk-140%-sugar-triple-decker-dessert from LA Sprinkles cupcakes. It’s a guilt-free cupcake made from nuts, cocoa, and peanut butter that is not only not bad for you….it’s good for you. :)

CHOCO-COCO CUPCAKES

• 2 cup ground almonds (can buy at bulk store or pulse almonds in food processor)
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/2-3/4 cup natural peanut butter (the more the better – I’d even do a full cup! – just depends on how much you like PB!!!)
• 3/4 cup shredded coconut
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup water (or almond milk)
• Liquid stevia to taste (this will create a bit of a sweet/bitter taste – careful with this stuff!) :)

All of these can be put into a food processor and mixed that way. Dry ingredients… and then add all the wet ingredients. There’s no method to it, just mix it all together. The consistency should be like a loose cake batter. If it’s too watery, add coconut, if it’s too thick, add a little more water/milk.
Bake at 350F for 18-20 min, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Stevia: if you’ve never had it will leave a bitter taste, but we found it’s minimized with the peanut butter. For those who don’t know, Stevia is a natural sweetener that comes from the Stevia plant, which grows in Paraguay and Brazil primarily… it’s an all-natural, zero-calorie extract for health-conscious individuals, offering an alternative to improve the flavour of foods.

NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER & COCONUT ICING

• 4 oz cream cheese (half a square package)
• 1/2 cup liquid whipping cream
• 2-4 tbs natural peanut butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder (or to taste, depends how chocolatey you want it)
• 1/2 c shredded coconut
• Stevia to taste

The icing was completely made up past the first two ingredients. You can really add to it whatever you want.
Whip cream cheese, vanilla and whip cream until it forms soft peaks or looks like icing. Add in peanut butter.
With a spatula, mix in sifted cocoa powder and shredded coconut.

Put the icing in a little bag and spin the icing to a tip on your little cakes… we took a litttttle icing on a knife and spotted around the edge of the cupcake – just enough to have coconut stick to it. :)

ENJOY YOUR HEALTHY (and pretty darn adorable.) CUPCAKE!!!

xoxo R