I still have a lot of left over AP flour and white sugar… what does this call for? Cheat Day! Well, there is an additional reason – whenever I make my cheat day recipes, they are for someone else. This time, the reason for these cupcakes is that it’s my friend Alex’s last day at the internship and I’m gonna miss her – so HEY! Might as well use up more of the All-Purpose Flour and Granulated Sugar I have left. Especially since I never use it otherwise. Which is good.
I can’t just throw it out though so making it for others, who don’t care as much for healthy eating, is a good way to go. I’d love to influence my friends to go ahead with healthy eating but priorities first – there’s gotta be ways to get rid of all of the products I personally won’t use anymore. So here’s another way 
Making regular ol’ cupcakes! Woohooo!
These blueberry lemon cupcakes feel light and summery. I tried hard not to make the texture feel like a muffin but rather a cupcake and I succeeded. I was very tempted to put in whole wheat flour in the mix but I had to resist cause I knew otherwise the texture would turn out more muffin-y. Plus, I really wanna use up all of that darn all-purpose flour, haha. Everyone deserves a cheat day though, so indulge Not like these are super fattening anyway!
Blueberry Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
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Keywords: cupcakes cheat day
Ingredients (12 cupcakes)
For Cupcakes
- 1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp coconut oil, melted
- 1/3 cup liquid egg whites, room temperature
- 10 drops Lemon NuNaturals Stevia
- 1/2 cup plain nonfat kefir, room temperature
- 12 cup unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk, room temperature
- 1 tsp lemon rind (grated)
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries (I used frozen, thawed)
For Frosting
- 4 oz reduced fat cream cheese
- ~2/3 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tsp finely grated lemon zest
- 1/4 tsp xanthan gum
Instructions
For Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 350°. Put 12 cupcake liners into muffin tin and spray them.
To prepare cupcakes, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl.
Combine melted coconut oil and egg whites in another large bowl; stir with a whisk. Add kefir, almond milk, and lemon rind to egg mixture; stir with a whisk. Add kefir mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Fold blueberries into batter.
Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
For Frosting
In a large bowl, put together cream cheese and rind and start blending with a hand mixer. Start adding confectioners sugar to the mixture by 1/4 cup or so, slowly, so that it gets blended in all together nicely. Once all of the sugar is in and it’s all blended, add the xanthan gum and blend it up more. Your frosting is now ready to be scooped onto the cupcakes.
Store in the fridge.
Kammie wants to know:
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How often do you bake for others?
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What’s your favorite summer berry?
Let me know in the comments below!
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YUM! I haven’t had a lemon blueberry cupcake in forever, totally craving one now! Cheat day’s are the best
Your so funny! Like you I try to use up ingredients on hand that is not so healthy and I give them away to the not so healthy people. Last night I cleaned out my pantry and brought in all the things I shouldn’t eat so everyone else can! You get on those urges to buy bad things, then I end up giving it away out of guilt! Funny how we work that way!
Your Blueberry Lemon Cupcakes look delish!!! And you certainly did make them a little bit more healthy!
Haha right? It’s us being sneaky! I’ll have a bunch more of these “cheat day” recipes to post in the near future before I can say I’m all out though. When I started baking in the beginning of the year I just went and bought a bunch of stuff to have it in the pantry; didn’t even think that it’s not healthy and there area alternatives. That’s what I get for acting on impulse, haha.
YUM!!!! they look amaaazing, lady. I may make these for a party I have to go to on Saturday!
Lemon and blueberry is such a great flavor combo. My favorite part about the recipe though? You included the icing. Nom.
Haha I gave my mom a few things when I cleaned out my pantry a few months back but I did throw away a bunch of stuff too!
These look amazing!!! I want one!
These look perfect for summer Kammie- I am suddenly very hungry…
Everyone deserves indulgences
Love lemon and blueberry and these look amazing!!