One day, I decided to rummage through my pantry on a quest to cure my sweet tooth.
I walked in and all of a sudden my FitBit on my wrist buzzed. It was only 4pm and I had already hit my step goal for the day!
Woohoo!
Except…now my sweet tooth felt a bit guilty!
So I decided to try a “healthy” treat recipe I had once heard about at a Weight Watcher meeting.
I don’t often have boxed cake mix in the pantry, but on this day I happened to have a box of Devil’s Food. I ended up choosing this because it only needed 3 ingredients.
I also had a can of pumpkin puree and some semi sweet chocolate chips.
So what did I do?
I made muffins!
This is so simple and quick, and I honestly believe you canNOT taste the pumpkin!
BTW, if you keep them covered, the next day they taste just like an Otis Spunkmeyer Chocolate Chip Muffin! My fave!
3 Ingredient Devil’s Food Muffins
Ingredients:
- 1 box Devil’s Food Cake Mix
- 1 15 oz can of pumpkin puree
- About 6 oz of semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
- Mix all of the ingredients together. Pour the batter into 24 cupcake liners (you might want to spray the cupcake liners with cooking spray since this batter is THICK and might stick) using (2) 12 ct cupcake tins.
- Bake for about 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven
Simple and quick! Definitely not health food, but perhaps healthIER food? 😉
- 1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
- 1 15 oz can of pumpkin puree
- About 6 oz of semisweet chocolate chips
- Mix all of the ingredients together. Pour the batter into 24 cupcake liners (you might want to spray the cupcake liners with cooking spray since this batter is THICK and might stick) using (2) 12 ct cupcake tins.
- Bake for about 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven
Enjoy!
Denise says
February 28, 2014 at 9:01 amwhy are the cupcakes/muffins mis-shapened in your photo?
Heather says
March 3, 2014 at 1:09 pmThe batter is thicker and they don’t rise as “smooth” as regular cupcakes would.
Brandi says
March 15, 2014 at 4:30 pmSounds good – but do you know how many calories for each?
Mandy says
April 19, 2014 at 5:50 pmDry Cake mix -160 calories
pumpkin puree – 175 calories
Mini Chocolate chips – 840 calories
That equals 1175. Didvide that by the # of muffins you get from the mix. I got 20 muffins so they are basically 58 calories each.
Dorothy says
June 28, 2014 at 9:27 pmI assume you don’t add the egg and oil or water to the cake mix as it requires? Thanks!
Heather says
July 6, 2014 at 7:37 pmNope!
Jennifer says
June 28, 2014 at 10:15 pmPerhaps adding some water or applesauce to thin the batter a bit, might help them rise ‘neater.’
Julie Temple says
August 28, 2014 at 3:10 pmI added a half can of water- using the can from the pumpkin. Turned out neater but I’m wondering what the texture is like not using it. I got 40 muffins.
Heather says
September 4, 2014 at 2:32 pmWere they light and fluffy? 40 muffins is a lot! Were they full size?
Julie Temple says
September 18, 2014 at 2:31 pmYes they were, they tasted just like Otis spunkmeyer 🙂
Heather says
September 28, 2014 at 2:59 pmI’m so glad!
Suzanne says
July 10, 2015 at 6:02 pmthese are yummy, but the Devils food cake mix is 160 calories per serving for the dry mix. My box yielded 12 servings making the cake mix 1,920. 12 big muffins is 175 per muffin. Good, but not eat the whole pan good:(
Heather says
July 22, 2015 at 10:10 pmDefinitely not eat the whole pan good. But better than by the box instructions!