Sugar-Free Cupcakes for Kids

There are a lot of reasons why someone needs a sugar-free version of cupcakes. If you are cooking for someone who is diabetic or following a paleo diet for health reasons you may be feeling overwhelmed. 

 Maybe you’re adjusting to new diet restrictions for yourself and luckily there are many sugar-free options. Sugar-free cupcakes aren’t all that different from the regular cupcakes you are used to. Yep, your sweet tooth is saved. 

Diabetic Friendly Sugar-Free Cupcakes For Kids

Luckily, sugar-free cupcakes are not too hard to make and they come out delicious. Allulose or Swerve makes for the perfect sugar-free sweeteners and you can use either in Chelsweets sugar-free cupcake recipe. 

 Sugar alternatives are increasing in popularity and aren’t hard to find in most grocery stores. These cupcakes are definitely kid-approved. Let’s check out her recipe and get you on your way to delicious sugar-free cupcakes. 

 

Sugar-Free Cupcakes

  • 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour (175 grams)

  • 1 tsp baking powder (4 grams)

  • 1/4 tsp salt (1 gram)

  • 1/2 cup or 1 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature (113 grams)

  • 1 cup sugar free sweetener - Allulose or Swerve (175 grams)

  • 2 large egg, room temperature (112 grams)

  • 2 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste (8 grams)

  • 1 tsp almond extract - optional (4 grams)

  • 1/2 cup sour cream, room temperature (126 grams)

Sugar-Free Frosting

  • 4 large egg whites, room temperature (134 grams)

  • 1 cup allulose or other sugar free sweetener (175 grams)

  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (170 grams)

  • 1/2 tsp salt (2 gram)

  • 2 tsp vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract (8 grams)

  • 1 tsp almond extract - optional (4 grams)

  • gel food coloring (if desired)

When making sugar-free cupcakes it’s important to measure your flours very carefully. A kitchen scale will give you the most accurate measurements. 

You will cream together the sweetener and butter just like you do with cane sugar. You will spend a couple of minutes with a hand mixer or whisk attachment to get a real consistent batter here. The eggs and the rest of the wet ingredients come next.  

Once you add the dry mixture to the wet mixture you don’t want to over mix the cupcake batters. This is the case with a classic cupcake recipe as well. Over mixing the batter can make the cupcakes come out dryer than you want them to be. Mixing until they are just barely combined will give you a nice fluffy cupcake. 

Now you add the batter into cupcake liners or silicone baking cups and you're ready to get your house smelling like a sweet vanilla cupcake.


Tips For Baking With Kids

Depending on the age of the children you are baking with, the tasks they can handle will be very different. Even the very youngest helpers can put the cupcake liners into the cupcake pan, so you can get those tiny hands helping at an early age. Kids love to help in the kitchen so give them all the opportunities that you can. Baking makes for some beautiful memories as well as some beautiful messes. 

 1 - Embrace the Mess

This is the number one reason people shy away from baking with their kids. There is definitely a bigger mess when you bake with kids but if you can embrace that aspect then the whole experience will be a lot more fun. 

 Of course, you should be teaching your kids how to be respectful and make a smaller mess, but the mess that comes with the process of learning should be welcome. 

 2 - Measure into a Separate Bowl

There will be mistakes during the baking process and when that happens don’t get frustrated and don’t make the child feel bad. When you are measuring something out you can have your child measure something into a separate bowl rather than the main bowl, this way if they accidentally dump half of the cup of flour on the counter instead of the bowl, you can simply try again. When you have them adding things straight to the main bowl, it is harder to correct mistakes. 

 This also works great with cracking eggs. Don’t have them crack directly into the main bowl. If they are cracking into a smaller bowl you can more easily fish out any shells. 

 3 - Let Them Do the Dumping and Mixing

If you are cooking with a younger child who doesn’t have the fine motor skills to measure out ingredients, you can always do all the measuring ahead of time. You can call your child over once you have all the ingredients in the cups and the child just dumps them into the mixing bowl and helps with the mixing. 

 4 - Teach Them to Go Slow

Kids are usually so excited that it’s easy for them to rush when helping in the kitchen. It’s important to demonstrate how we slowly measure ingredients and double-check the recipe. Everything is done very thoughtfully. This is very good for a child to experience and will seem unnatural to them at first. That’s okay!

 The more you cook with a child, the easier it gets. Baking with kids can be very fun. The first few times it’s normal for it to be frustrating. However, when a child is involved in the baking process, they love the food even more. When you’re trying out this sugar free cupcake recipe, don’t be afraid to let the kids get their hands dirty.

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