Pink Swirl Cupcakes

Today I made cupcakes and as I said in my introduction I am looking for new ways to bake in a more healthy way but still be healthy. I love cupcakes! Loosely quoting Grey's Anatomy 'Everything tastes better as a cupcake. Lasagne cupcake. Mashed potato cupcake.' Yes everything does taste better as a cupcake but for today I am sticking with good, old fashion, cake - cupcakes. 

These are not the healthiest but I am short on time and they are for a friends birthday, so we can cheat a bit.

I started with a box cake mix...

Then to make it a little bit healthy I added Fat Free Greek yoghurt...

By using yoghurt you skip the eggs and the oil ( and it did call for 3 eggs and 1/3 cup of oil)
Next I added some water (exact measurements will be at the bottom). My cake mix is a chocolate swirl cake so after I mixed it up I took out 1 cup and mixed in the chocolate powder that came in the box(but you could use regular mix and as coco powder to make your own swirls). To the rest of the mixture I added food colouring, because my friend likes bright colours I was shooting for pink.

Then came the fun part, you put the pink mix in the cupcake liners (or however you make cupcakes), to that you evenly distribute the chocolate mix. Now you should have a blob of  chocolate on top of your pink, use a knife and swirl your chocolate through the pink being careful not to mix the two colours. Then because I have a sweet tooth I sprinkled a few chocolate chips on each one. Bake and your done!

They look more pink in real life!

• Preheat oven to 325*F
• Add 1 cake mix, 1 cup Greek yoghurt, and 1 cup water
• Mix thoroughly 
• Place on cup batter in a separate bowl and add chocolate powder(from box, or coco powder)
• Add food colouring to big bowl of batter until you get desired shade ( I used 50 drops red and 5 drops blue)
• Scoop in to half filled muffing cups, add a dollop of chocolate batter to each cup and swirl
• Add chocolate ships if you so choose
• Bake for 25-30 minutes insuring not to over cook
• Let cool before frosting or leave them as is. They are moist enough and delicious enough not to require frosting.
• Makes about 2 Dozen 

I kind of swished it breaking it apart :(

Pretty isn't it? And a little more healthy then just using the box straight up!