These decadent Salted Caramel Cupcakes are healthier, flourless, & high in protein. Served with creamy frosting and caramel sauce. Dessert without the guilt
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Flourless Salted Caramel Cupcakes
Imagine a moist caramel cupcake with a creamy topping drizzled with homemade caramel sauce. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it?
Using this recipe from the Trim Healthy’s Mamas Pearl Barrett and Serene Allison and their new cookbook, Trim Healthy Mama’s Trim Healthy Table, they are yummy and super easy to make. In fact, you don’t even have to use a mixer. The blender does all the work.
This awesome recipe is gluten-free, high in protein, very low in sugar, and low in calories.
AND IT DOES NOT TASTE LIKE CARDBOARD.
How is this possible?
MAGIC!
No, not Harry Potter magic.
By simply utilizing ingredients in a different way you can create flavors, textures, and combinations that probably you wouldn’t think of before.
Want to know the secret to these Flourless Salted Caramel Cupcakes?
Instead of guessing I’ll let show you a picture of the cupcake batter:
White beans.
Do not close the browser! I swear that they taste just like regular cupcakes. Just make them one day in advance and while they refrigerate, all the yumminess comes through.
When I first read this recipe from the Trim Healthy Table Cookbook, I was like, BEANS? in my cupcakes? Will they taste like hummus? or dip? Yuck!
But then I stopped being a coward and when for it.
All I needed to do was dump all the ingredients in a blender, pour into the muffin tin and bake.
It’s hard to believe that white beans mixed with simple ingredients can bake up into a delicious, sweet, and moist cupcake.
See? Golden springy nuggets of flavor. Without the hummus taste, of course.
Then, you make your cream cheese frosting and top it with an amazing homemade caramel sauce.
Let me tell you, the caramel sauce is INCREDIBLE. Tastes just like butterscotch. I am making some more tomorrow.
This Flourless Salted Caramel Cupcake recipe is just one of 300 healthy recipes on the Trim Healthy Table Cookbook.
From appetizers to snacks, to main courses. This book covers it all. It offers an easy to follow a diet plan with many suggestions and adaptations. I love the fact that they offer a huge variety of food ideas that are actually doable.
My favorite section: Hangry Meals for One. Perfect for my husband, who sometimes comes home from work a little, moody 🙂
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Flourless Salted Caramel Cupcakes
Ingredients
For Caramel Cupcakes
- 2 (15 oz) Cans of White Beans rinsed and drained
- 3 large Eggs
- 3/4 cup Egg Whites (from about 6 eggs)
- 3/4 cup Gente Sweet any other Sugar Substitute
- 1/4 teaspoon Mineral Salt
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 teaspoon Caramel Extract
- 2 tablespoons Coconut Oil
For the Cream Cheese Frosting*
- 6 oz 1/3 less fat Cream Cheese room temperature
- 1 cup Heavy Cream
- 1/2 cup Gente Sweet any other Sugar Substitute
- 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 teaspoon Caramel Extract
- Pinch Salt
For the Caramel Sauce
- 2 tablespoons Heavy Cream
- 2 tablespoons Butter
- 2 tablespoons Gente Sweet any other Sugar Substitute
- 1/2 teaspoon Blackstrap Molasses
- 1/8 teaspoon Salt
- 1/8 teaspoon Xantham Gum or Gluccie optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F.
- Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners. Spray coconut oil over the liners
- Place all the cupcake ingredients in a food processor or blender. Process until creamy
- Pour the batter into the muffin tin
- Bake for 25 minutes or until browned on top
- Remove from oven, cool on a cookie rack and refrigerate completely before adding the frosting
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
- Place all ingredients in a blender. Blend until thick and creamy
- Pipe on top of the cooled cupcakes, refrigerate
- For the Caramel Sauce
- Place butter, molasses, and sugar substitute on a saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Allow mixture to bubble and thicken for 2 minutes while whisking constantly
- Remove from the heat and add the heavy cream, salt, and xantham gum. Mix and cool before drizzling over cupcakes
- Cupcakes need to cool in the refrigerator for a minimum of 4 hours before serving. Better if they cool overnight
- Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Less than 150 calories! YAY!
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Sj Dc says
love celebrating fresh produce in all its glory….hence, its lots of veg and some fruit mixed with herbs and seasoning either roasted or as a salad (depending on the season)
Lori Walker says
We make almond flour blondies.
Shannon says
I like salads
Laura S says
Meatless tacos with lentils!
Julia Barnes says
I like any recipe taht is keto so that I can eat it.
Jeffrey says
I make banana nut bread with quinoa flour, chia seeds, flaxseeds, applesauce for oil and Greek yogurt for the sugar.
Kelly M. says
I love cassava flour brownies
Brittany McKnight says
My favorite healthy recipe is my families chicken spinach veggie soup. It always cures any colds I may have.
Sarah Quincey says
Energy bites!
Kathy B. says
I love soups with tons of veggies. Filling and healthy!
Denise M says
I love making a low calorie turkey chili
Nickole Heim says
vegetable soup
deana says
My favorite healthy recipe is spaghetti squash casserole!
meredith says
I love making spinach risotto
susan smoaks says
i make a lentil soup that i love. it’s got lentils, spinach, celery and vegetable broth. it’s so good and filling too.
Donna Clifford says
spinach salad
Penny Snyder says
I love broccoli salad!!!~
Daniel M says
i do salad
Laura says
I’ve been trying out THM friendly recipes from Northern Nester for awhile now…. can’t choose just one, they’ve all been ??
Miranda Brubaker says
Yum! These cupcakes look amazing! We love a lot of the recipes from the first THM cookbook! But, one of our favorites is definitely the Trimtastic Cake ?
Carolyn Eickhorst says
Love egg roll in a bowl
Beth says
Cry No More Brownies! – yum!!
Christa Collins says
I love reworking old recipes into healthy recipes. My favorite has to be pizza, though.
Melissa Moore says
It looks like this one might be, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to try it and enter the giveaway at the same time!
KdBrown says
My family loves broiled Heavenly Halibut!
Jody says
This looks amazing – I don’t have the cookbook yet, but I’m definitely trying these!
Anita says
Looks so yummy!!
Micki says
I. Love cakes made with beans. I’ve feed them to my extended family and they never suspected a thing.
Christi says
There was a thm friendly pumpkin parfait that I found online a couple years ago that was really delicious!
Christi says
A couple years back I tried a thm friendly pumpkin parfait that was delicious
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Orca smoothy
Bethany Kolarik says
I love any trim healthy mama sweets!
Kathy Hanley says
I want to try the Trim Train Taco Soup because it looks so good!
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My favorite healthy recipe is the GGMS, even when I am off the wagon, I have to have it! LOL We tend to eat a lot of taco salads and I do love the Trim train taco soup too! So many to love, so little time!
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We love THM’s Eggroll in a Bowl! Even the kids adore it…
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This looks like a new favorite THM treat! Thanks for the chance to win!
Katie Bodin says
I love the Cajun Cream Chicken!
Jen L. says
My favorite recipe is a pumpkin chili recipe I got from an auto immune paleo cookbook. Just add bacon to make it even better! 😉
MIndy says
Can’t wait to try this! Thank you for posting
Jessica says
My favorite healthy recipe right now is the chocolate lava muffin! I’m new to THM and that recipe is helping curb my desire for sugary desserts.
Mona says
I love everything salad!
Kathy Pease says
I would love the Fooled Ya’ Pizza recipe
Ed says
Chicken Caesar Salad!
deanna says
Black pepper chicken
Julia says
I make Swiss chicken bake. Not in any of the books but delicious
Richard Hicks says
A caesar salad would be my favroite
Jennifer H. says
We like to make veggie soup.
shawna says
Avacado salad.
John H. says
We make salad that has lots of vegetables.
Lyn says
I still love the loaded fotato soup from the original book
Stephanie Liske says
I like good ol fashioned salads. Nice and easy to prepare.
Lisa says
I love making fruit parfaits.
Katye George says
I love the THM lentil soup!
Barb says
THM is great. My quick go to food when crunched for time is berry whip made with cottage cheese or Greek Keifer.. I make it with berries or peanut flour. Quick & yummy!
Donna Clifford says
a Salad with alot of veggies in it.
Julie Waldron says
Mine is Avocado, Tomato and hard boiled egg salad with a little salt & pepper. 🙂
Michelle Monro says
Cant wait to try these caramel cupcakes!! My favorite healthy dish I like isn spinach and eggs.
Thanks!
S. Carter says
I love a great vegetable stir fry!
Buddy Garrett says
Vegetarian Lasagna is my favorite.
DanV says
I like the Singing Canary
Michelle Henriquez says
One is Tilapia cooked with lemon and olive oil.
Philip Lawrence says
My favorite healthy recipe is lentil and vegetable soup combined.
Sand says
I’ve been using a lot of vegetarian recipes lately!
Leela says
Pumpkin cream cheese muffins.
Jennifer says
The recipe says to add heavy cream to the caramel sauce but doesn’t list that in the ingredients?? How much?
Tiffany says
You are correct Jennifer, I am sorry about that. It’s 2 tablespoons of heavy cream. Just updated the recipe.