Tomato Soup Cupcakes, Cream Cheese Frosting - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can tomato soup
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
- 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- Cream Cheese Frosting, recipe follows
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line standard cupcake pans with 24 cupcake liners.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the sugar and shortening. In a separate bowl, add the baking soda to the tomato soup. Mix the flour, salt, baking powder, nutmeg, and cloves in another bowl. Alternate adding the soup mixture and the flour mixture to the shortening, starting and ending with the soup mixture. Add in the nuts and raisins, if desired, and combine only until mixed. Fill the cupcake liners 2/3 full. Bake until the cupcake springs back when touched, about 20 minutes. Transfer the pans to wire racks to cool completely before removing the cupcakes.
- To assemble: Frost the cooled cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Nuts.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Nuts are...
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