Chocolate Protein Cupcakes

Chocolate Protein Cupcakes

Ingredients for 6 cakes:
- 1 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 banana
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon honey, or your favorite sweetener to your own taste
- 1 cup (100 g) whole wheat flour or oat flour
- 2 scoops (2 x 1/4 cup) vanilla or chocolate protein powder
- 1/4 cup of cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt

Mix wet ingredients (egg, baby food, honey, vanilla, mashed banana) together. Mix dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, cacao powder, protein powder) together. Mix everything together.

I baked the cakes for 20-25 minutes at 230 degrees Celsius. I checked for doneness with a toothpick.

Basic low-sugar chocolate pudding/ Frosting

Ingredients:
- Half liter (16.9 Fl oz.) of milk: unsweetened soy / almond milks are the milks with the lowest sugar content
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 3 to 4 tablespoons of locust bean gum (or corn starch)
- 2 teaspoons of fat-reduced cocoa
- 1 tablespoon of stevia or your favorite low-calorie sweetener

Instructions:
- Mix the locust bean gum powder, stevia, cocoa, vanilla and a bit of the milk together. Make sure there are no lumps in the mixture.
- Put the rest of the milk in a sauce pan on a high fire.
- Add the hot milk to the mixture with the other ingredients and put it on a small fire until the mixture start thickening.