Just as with "fat-free" foods, "gluten-free" doesn't mean healthy. Sorry to be a nudge here, but there is no nutritional information accompanying this recipe. All those egg yolks raised a red flag for me so I ran the ingredients through a calculator.
These cupcakes come in at 373 calories each. The typical grocery store/box mix vanilla cupcake with no frosting runs maybe 250. This recipe also has 19 grams of fat (46% of which is saturated)- 30% of the daily recommended fat. Compare that to the typical cupcake with less than 9 grams of fat. And that's *without* the frosting. Adding in 2T of a typical buttercream frosting adds another 100 calories and perhaps 5g - 9g of fat. Panera vanilla cupcakes with frosting are the only other ones in this league at 450 cal and 27g of fat.
Keep these yummy little devils - and they are gooood!! - to an occasional treat!
Here's the complete rundown for this recipe (cupcake only, no frosting):
calories 373
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 19 g 30 %
Saturated Fat 9 g 46 %
Monounsaturated Fat 6 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3 g
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg 0 %
Sodium 504 mg 21 %
Potassium 59 mg 2 %
Total Carbohydrate 47 g 16 %
Dietary Fiber 6 g 22 %
Sugars 24 g
Protein 4 g 7 %
Vitamin A 0 %
Vitamin C 0 %
Calcium 5 %
Iron 11 %
April 19, 2015 at 5:34pm