White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes

I am doing a 12-week fitness challenge at my gym which is really affecting my relationship with baked goods. So I got it into my head to try to make a low-calorie version of the white chocolate raspberry cupcakes I love so well.

I bought a beautiful brick of Callebaut white chocolate at Whole Foods and decided to make a simple ganache glaze to keep the calories lower than a full frosting.

I used fresh red raspberries and this recipe I found online.

Cupcakes
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
5 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup whole milk
1/3 cup fresh raspberries, roughly chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line muffin cups with paper liners.
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla extract. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture and milk alternately in 3 batches, beginning and ending with the flour mixture and beating just until incorporated. Fold in the raspberries.
Divide the batter among lined muffin cups. Bake until pale golden and a wooden pick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Turn cupcakes out onto a rack to cool completely.

Ganache
3/4 cup chopped white chocolate
1/4 cup heavy cream
Bring cream to a simmer in a small heavy saucepan. Pour cream evenly over chocolate. Let stand for one minute to soften, then stir until smooth. If frosting is too loose to spread, let it sit at room temperature for 10 to 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, ganache will continue to thicken as it stands.

They were sad! This recipe should have made 11 cupcakes instead of 12 and even so they would have been sad little itty bitty cupcakes with barely any raspberry flavor at all. The white chocolate ganache completely overpowered the cakes.

The only good thing I have to say about them is that they were about 250 calories each. Booooo!