Cheap Tuesday Recipes and Fun Fact Fridays

How can it only be Tuesday? Feels like the whole week drags and then the weekend is gone before you can even say hello!
Well from now on I will have something to spice up both your Tuesdays and Fridays. I am going to commit to post a budget-conscious recipe every Tuesday and trust me as a poor uni student I know how important a cheap tuesday meal can be (and no I am not referring to dominoes pizza, put down the take away menu!!). I will also post a fun fact every friday in regards to nutrition- This week I will discuss Acne and how changes in nutrition and lifestyle can improve your skin. Now to people who know me- committing to writing twice a week will test my organisational skills but blogging will be a great way for me to further my nutrition knowledge and I continue to study it and share the cool tips and fun facts that I learn along the way!

This weeks recipe was an absolute hit over the easter holidays and its deceptive healthiness will trick even the stubbornest of kids!

Chocolate Kidney Bean Surprise Cupcakes!

Now you're probably all think kidney beans in muffins hows that work? But trust me you can not even taste the beans, great for people who have a sweet tooth but are trying to be healthy. This recipe however is only cheap if you already have some of the ingrediants in your pantry. I adapted this from a recipe given to me at university from NADSA.

Prep time: 15 minutes or less

Makes: around 20 cupcakes

Ingrediants:

• 1 or 2 cans of red kidney beans (drained and rinsed) - I used two
•  a few tablespoons of water to help with blending the beans
• 2 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 6 tablespoons of cocoa powder
• 6 tablespoons of margarine
• 1 cup of brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda/ baking soda
• 4 eggs
• pinch of salt
• 70 to 100g of dark chocolate (around half a block or less depending own taste)
• optional: finely grated dark chocolate to decorate cupcakes

Method:

• Preheat oven to 170°C
• Line muffin trays with your cupcake/ muffin cups
• Blend kidney beans with the 2 tablespoons of water and 1/2 tablespoon of vanilla until a nice smooth texture (about 2 minutes)
• In seperate bowl mix the eggs, vanilla extract, margarine and sugar with and electric mixer on medium until all mixed
• Then add the kidney bean mixture in and mix for another 1-2 minutes
• finally add in the cocoa powder, bicarb soda and baking powder and mix until all combined
• At this point you can either chop up the dark chocolate and mix it through with the other ingrediants or as I chose to do, put a square in the middle of each cupcake for a little surprise! ;)
• spoon mixture into the muffin cups and bake for 15 minutes
• and once cooled grate any additional dark chocolate over the top of the cupcakes

They are a great healthy and moist cupcake that was enjoyed by range of age groups at our family easter celebrations

Enjoy xoxo

and feel free to comment any suggestions or email me at nutritiononabudget1@gmail.com for any queries etc

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