Truly beautiful Maple Bacon Protein Cupcakes with sweet maple flavored protein cupcake and frosting topped and salty bacon. These healthy maple bacon cupcakes are sugar free, low carb and low fat too!

Maple and Bacon really is such a good – but very underrated – dessert flavor. The sweet and salty flavor of that frosting over the sweet maple protein cupcakes – just beautiful!

And such good nutrition too; No sugar and so low carb; These cupcakes really are beautiful inside and out!

Ingredients for Maple Bacon Protein Cupcakes

These maple bacon protein cupcakes are made with healthy ingredients, sweetened with protein powder, and topped with a protein maple frosting and bacon. Here’s what you need for these healthy cupcakes:

Maple-flavored Protein Powder needed for a high protein cupcake and also replaces the ‘sugar’.
I used Maple Cookie protein powder from HTLT Supps since it’s a whey-caesin and works best for baking
Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
Non-fat Greek Yogurt contributes to the oil-free part of these high protein low calorie protein cupcake since it adds the moisture, and also extra protein
Unsweetened Applesauce
Almond Milk or regular milk
An Egg
A bit of Melted Butter
Baking Soda and Baking Powder

For the Maple Bacon Cupcake effect:

More Maple Protein Powder: HTLT Supps Maple Cookie flavor again
Non-fat Plain Greek Yogurt
Bacon! I recommend low sodium and reduced fat if possible.

Tips for the perfect Maple Bacon Protein Powder Cupcakes Recipe

While this protein powder maple bacon cupcake recipe is easy, there are a few things to keep in mind:

Grease the cupcake liners if they aren’t silicon.
This will allow the protein powder cupcakes to come off easily.

Use room temperature yogurt and milk;
This is so the wet ingredients and dry ingredients can mix well.

Use melted Butter so that it mixes well into the healthy cupcake batter.

Don’t over-mix the batter!
If you over-mix it, the protein powder – will make it tough, dense and gummy.

Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have sugar free protein cupcakes.

Let stuffed cupcakes cool completely before adding the frosting, or the frosting will melt away.

How to Store Protein Maple Cupcakes

These protein maple cupcakes recipe is a good meal prep snack or dessert and can be stored on the counter, in the fridge or freezer too.

Place protein powder maple cupcakes in an airtight container and you can keep them on the countertop for 2-3 hours, fridge for 5 days or freezer for 2-3 months.

To defrost frozen maple bacon cupcakes, leave them on the countertop or place them in the fridge overnight. I would not recommend using the microwave.

Alternatives for Healthy Maple Bacon Cupcakes

I made these healthy maple bacon cupcakes low fat, low calorie and sugar free with the set of ingredients above, but here’s some options to try. I haven’t given them all a go yet, so I can’t say how they all would work.

Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: Use All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour in the same amount by weight not cups.
Maple-flavored Protein Powder: Vanilla Protein Powder + Maple Extract
Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt
Almond Milk: Any other milk
Applesauce: Mashed Banana or Pumpkin Puree
Melted Butter: Melted Coconut Oil or Dairy Free Butter

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