i just dropped my kids off to school that i made their lunch this morning and it got me
thinking about all of those delicious snacks that my mom used to pack like the treats like a hostess
cupcake or a twinkie or like those little debbie cakes god i so miss them and i used to eat a lot
of them when i was pregnant too it's probably why i gained a lot of weight when i was pregnant um
but the host is cupcakes that's what i would have for lunch and like some doritos was so healthy
back then i really really missed that especially like the hostess cupcake with the chocolate
on top and you bite into it and has that marshmallow cream center and the twinkie too
so i'm like why can't i just make that make a keto version and i know that there's recipes out there
but i don't like making a huge bunch of stuff like i want something that's like single serve
mostly because like i don't want to be tempted by having like a bunch of different treats around
but also it gets tiring after like a day or two and you're just like nah i don't really
want any more so i don't really want to waste all those ingredients so i thought let's make
a single serve keto hostess cupcake and a twinkie
oh and i'm going to tell you guys what the macros are like so we're going to go over that at the end
and then i'll give you some tips too on how to make these extra authentic and delicious
we're going to start with my favorite which is the hostess cupcake now this is going to make
two cupcakes so one for you and want to share or one for you and one for you later if you don't
want to share and this recipe can be made in the microwave or in the oven i'm going to show you
the oven version but i'll have instructions on my website ketofocus.com if you want to make this in
the microwave which is done a lot quicker that's really good if you are craving chocolate now we're
going to start by adding three tablespoons of almond flour to a small bowl along with one
tablespoon of monk fruit sweetener or you could use a sweetener of your choice and one tablespoon
of unsweetened cocoa powder make sure you get the 100 unsweetened cocoa powder because it will have
the less carbs in it you'll also need a quarter teaspoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt
mix that together until everything's combined and now we're going to add in some wet ingredients
you're going to need one tablespoon of butter that's melted
one tablespoon of heavy cream and crack in one egg mix that together until it's combined
next we're going to pour this into our muffin tin so i am using a large muffin tin if you have
one that's smaller cavities that's fine too i'm only going to be using two of these cavities to
make these but that's fine because it's going to make clean up so easy make sure you grease
the inside i'm using some avocado spray here and then equally pour in your batter into each cavity
we're going to bake this in a 325 degree oven for around 15 to 17 minutes
you'll know it's done because it when you push down on it it kind of sponges
back so that means it's ready pull it out and just kind of let it cool i like to
loosen around the edges with a butter knife just so it doesn't stick to the edges of it
and then once it's cool and you can get it to come out then take out your cupcakes
so while our cupcakes are cooling let's make our creamy marshmallow filling now this is a
little tricky so if you want to if you want to make this as simple as possible then just go
ahead and go with getting some whipped cream maybe like a sugar-free canned whipped cream
and just squirting that inside if you want to do that but i really wanted that authentic
marshmallow cream flavor that goes inside hostess cupcake so i'm going to be taking
some sugar-free marshmallows and i'll have these linked down below on where you can purchase these
and i'm going to melt them in the microwave for around 10 seconds you just want to get them
melted and i'm going to add in 1 teaspoon of butter mix that until it's combined and
then i'm actually going to take some of that sugar-free whipped cream that you can get in
the can you don't have to use this if you don't want to you could just regular you
could use like regular heavy cream if you wanted to but i like to use this because i
feel like it already gives it kind of like that puffy appearance and just gently fold that in
we're gonna set that aside while we carve out our little centers of our cupcakes because this is
where our cream has to go so just carve it out with maybe if you have like some sort of tulle
i tried using like a cannoli mold and that really didn't work very well so then i just took a spoon
and just kind of carved in the inside i like a lot of cream inside mine so i carved a larger cavity
and then we're just gonna spoon our marshmallow cream mixture inside
you can either just leave it like this or you can take some of the parts that you carved out
and place it back on top but it will get covered when we put down our sugar-free chocolate ganache
which is the next step so to make that i have one tablespoon of sugar-free chocolate chips in
here and i'll have mine linked down below for you guys i use the chalk zero brand you can
save 10 off your order when you use my code keto focus at checkout you want to melt that down the
microwave at 30 second intervals stirring in between until it's completely melted and then
i'm going to add in a teaspoon of heavy cream this will make it more of a ganache so that it hardens
stir that until it's mixed and then we're just going to lightly spoon it on top of your cupcake
the next step is to make that beautiful white little swirl that goes across the top of your
hostess cupcake to make this we're gonna add one tablespoon of powdered sweetener i'm gonna
be using powdered swerve but you could use monk fruit too if you wanted to like a monk fruit blend
and then we're gonna add in one teaspoon of heavy cream now this all it kind of
depends like you might need a little bit more heavy cream you just kind of want to get like
a thicker icing consistency you don't want it to be too thin because then it's going to run
around so you might have to play with either adding more cream or more powdered sweetener
so mine i needed around like a teaspoon a half of heavy cream but then i ended
up having to add more powder so just get it to like a nice thick frosting consistency
now once your chocolate ganache on your keto hostess cupcake has kind of set a little bit
now we're going to take a piping bag and add in our white frosting and then
gently pipe those little swirls on top
if you want your chocolate to set and look like it does when you take out a hostess cupcake from
the package just pop it in the refrigerator or the freezer and that top ganache layer will set
and harden these turned out so good the cake is chocolaty and spongy and the inside layer of that
marshmallow cream is so creamy and delicious and it pairs perfectly with the chocolate and that
chocolate ganache that top layer is so good you guys i am so happy how these turned out
let's move on to the twinkies first and then i'll go over the macros for both of them at the end the
twinkie now this is going to be a similar recipe but a little bit different on the ingredients
because the colors were not adding chocolate we will be making two twinkies once again one for
you one for you later or one share if you're in the giving spirit to make the twinkie we're gonna
start by adding a quarter cup of almond flour to a small bowl you'll also need one teaspoon
of coconut flour and two teaspoons of a sweetener of your choice i'm going to be using a monk fruit
blend and then you'll also need a quarter teaspoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt
mix that together until it's combined and then we'll add in our wet ingredients crack in one egg
and then we're also going to add in a teaspoon of sour cream trust me on this this adds
really good flavor to your white cake and then you'll also need a quarter teaspoon of vanilla
mix that together until everything's combined and then we're going to add it to our pan so for this
recipe i don't really have a microwave option for you guys because i don't really know if there's a
silicone mold out there that you could use to make like a twinkie shape so i went with like
the whole baking method and this is the pan i used i'll have it linked down below there's a twinkie
in there already um so i'll have this link down below for you guys on where you can purchase this
you could also probably just maybe even make like a roll cake and lay it out on a baking
tray and then roll it i don't really know how well it's going to roll because i've never tried that
but that's an option or you can just put it in like a little mini loaf pan and it will be square
instead of a twinkie shape so same flavor just looks a little strange so once again you just want
to spray some cooking spray into two cavities and then equally fill the cavities with some batter
we're going to bake this in a 325 degree oven for around 15 to 17 minutes just until it's set
and then you're going to pop these out and they'll look like this and while these are cooling we'll
move on to our creamy marshmallow center now the recipe is pretty much going to be the same that
we used for the keto hostess cupcakes we're going to be using those sugar-free marshmallows again
along with some butter and then i'm going to add just a little bit more of the whipped cream here
in this recipe once again just use heavy cream if you want to i just really want it like creamy
and thick consistency rather than a runny one it's just to let it set because as it sits a little bit
that marshmallow will start to solidify again so just you gotta have to play with it and see okay
this is the perfect consistency let's insert the sucker now now for injecting our cream typically
when you see people do this either with a recipe or i think this is how twinkie does it too
hostess does it they do three little holes in the um like one in the center and two and the
ends to inject the cream so that's what i'm going to do here you can either maybe go on the side and
inject it or just kind of carve out the middle and squirt it all in whichever way you want to do it
is fine i'm going to be using this nifty injector that came with my twinkie pan set but feel free
just to use like a piping bag with a tip that will work too insert that in you can let these set for
just a little bit just to have that marshmallow cream solidify too and they are perfect
bite into them and they'll be at this nice creamy center once again if you just wanted to use like a
canned whipped cream and just insert that in go ahead and do that that's a lot easier
i'm so surprised at how these turned out like it looks like a freaking twinkie it
smells like twinkie it tastes like a twinkie that marshmallow cream inside is super good i actually
kind of wish i had some more marshmallow cream in here i think maybe next time i'm going to
carve out the whole center and add more in there just because that's my favorite part
but let's go over the macros to see how keto these are to see if we can
eat these on a daily basis or is it just kind of like a one time thing when you're
craving like hostess twinkie or cupcake so let's look at that now
for our hostess cupcakes and remember this makes two hostess cupcakes so i'm just gonna say
one cupcake is one serving so one serving on the hostess the keto hostess cupcakes
it's 241 calories 22.5 grams of fat 6.3 grams of protein there's 7.8 total carbs but the net carbs
per cupcake is only 2.2 net carbs that's fabulous the twinkie guys is even better so once again it
makes two servings because there's two twinkies um there's 227 calories per twinkie 20.3 grams of fat
6.7 protein the total carbs is only 3.8 grams of total carbs and net carbs is being only 1.9
grams of net carbs that is so good like you could really probably have two of these if you wanted
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