Quick and Easy Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting {Small Batch}

What I love about this recipe is that it is super quick to whip up and makes a small batch of cupcakes.  Which means I won't be eating a dozen cupcakes in a matter of a couple of days.  When it comes to desserts I find that I have lost all self control.  So small batches are good although this recipe can be easily doubled.  I frosted them with the recipe from my Quick Chocolate Cake.

Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

I've seen a few recipes for Cookies and Cream Cupcakes.  My son loves Oreo cookies so I thought this would be a good recipe to try.  I settled on a recipe I found at Annie's Eats because it had actual Oreos in the cake and it just looked so good.  I made half of this recipe and I replaced the butter with margarine.  I also made a low fat version of the cream cheese frosting.  It ended up being very thin and I wasn't able to pipe it.  It was also too much since I wasn't piping.  I found the cupcakes way too sweet.  My dad called me the next day and told me they were way too sweet and his sugar had gone up.  The recipe called for putting half an Oreo at at bottom and then putting the batter on top.  I loved this idea and the way it looked.  But when eating I wasn't too fond of it.  I thought it was way too many cookies in the batter.  So I made another batch and reduced the cookies by half and I didn't put the half Oreo at the bottom.  I also coarsley chopped them so the cookies were more distrubuted.  In the first batch I broke the cookies into 4-5 pieces.  They turned out much better.  I still have to work on a good low fat cream cheese frosting but I've posted what I did below.

Sugar Donut Cupcakes

I love donuts.  The first time I tasted a hot Krispy Kreme donut I couldn't believe how yummy it was.  I was really excited when Krispy Kreme finally came to Canada.  But now you can hardly find Krispy Kreme shops around.  When my dad would go for Juma (Friday prayers) he would pick up a dozen donuts from Tim Hortons on the way home.  I think some days I would eat 3 in one day or maybe it was 4.  I had to tell my dad to stop getting them because I was gaining weight.  When I came across this recipe I had to give it a try.  There was so little fat.  These cupcakes don't taste like donuts but they are really yummy.  Next time I would prefer to just sugar the top rather than all over.  My husband asked me how I got the sugar to stick and I told him I rolled them in butter.  He was surprised I would do that but then I explained the actual cupcake had so little fat that I thought it was fine to do the rolling in butter.  I read on another site that you can even skip the butter and roll them in sugar when they are still hot but I think the butter adds a nice flavor.  The original recipe served these with ice cream and whip cream.  I didn't have either and I thought they still tasted great without it.