[A Red, White & Blue Dessert!] Healthy Blue Velvet Cupcakes with White Coconut Frosting and Strawberry Syrup Drizzle

This isn’t your typical velvet cake — it’s not red, it’s BLUE! Oh, and it won’t hurt your waistline either. Just like my Red Velvet Cake (which I finally made vegan!), these Blue Velvet Cupcakes are whole grain, gluten free, low sugar, and high protein.

Blue Velvet Cupcakes — regular size!

Blue Velvet Cupcakes — mini size!

Now it’s time to EAT!

Chomp.

Sweet and moist with a few healthy ingredients you would never expect — blueberries in the cupcakes, coconut in the frosting, strawberries in the drizzle. All people will know is that these cupcakes are damn delicious, they just won’t know that they’re actually healthy. Yup, I said it. These cupcakes are good for you. The cupcakes are made with oat flour and natural food coloring. The frosting is made with yogurt and coconut butter. The strawberry drizzle is homemade with fresh strawberries and natural food coloring.

When these cupcakes came out of the oven I thought the blue color was a little off-putting, but to my surprise people loved these cupcakes! They were a HUGE hit!

Average number of cupcakes expected to be eaten by my taste testers: 1

Average number of cupcakes actually eaten by each taste tester: 3

Try to hide the cupcakes when they are on the cooling rack… everyone will ask why you baked alien-like, lava blue cupcakes. Once you frost and drizzle the cupcakes everyone will get the idea that this is a July 4th cake, not a seven year old’s birthday cake gone horribly wrong…

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With love and good eats,

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– Jess

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