Snickers Protein Cupcakes – Beautiful and Sugar Free!

Beautiful Snickers Protein Cupcakes with a soft protein chocolate cupcake, protein caramel filling and protein peanut butter frosting. Healthy filled Snickers cupcakes are sugar free, low fat, and easily Vegan too!

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The protein caramel filling on these Snickers cupcakes was hands down my favorite part of this recipe! So smooth and rich and such a good combination with the soft chocolate cupcake. It really just melts in your mouth!

And a very easy and healthy dessert here too, since it uses all clean ingredients – whole wheat, no sugar, and no extra butter or oil either!

Ingredients for Snickers Protein Cupcakes 

These Snickers protein cupcakes are made with healthy ingredients, sweetened with protein powder, filled with protein caramel, topped with a protein peanut butter frosting and peanuts too. Here’s what you need for these healthy cupcakes:

For the Snickers Chocolate Protein Cupcake

• Chocolate Protein Powder needed for a high protein cupcake and also replaces the ‘sugar’.
  I used Whey-Casein Chocolate Donut protein powder from HTLT Supps (Quest Nutrition also works) and whey protein powder from Dymatize.
• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
• Black Cocoa Powder or regular cocoa
• 1:1 Zero Calorie Sugar Substitute – I use Lakanto, to keep this recipe sugar free;  (code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here)
• Hot Water
• Unsweetened Applesauce
• Some Lemon Juice
• A bit of Melted Butter
• Baking Soda

The Protein Caramel to fill in:

• Peanut Butter Powder, also known as Powdered Peanut Butter. I recommend Lakanto for a sugar free version (the code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount). Or you could use the one from PbFit too.
• Peanut Butter
• Vanilla Protein Powder: I used HTLT Supps or Quest Nutrition Vanilla whey-caesin here.
• Sugar free Maple Syrup for low calorie caramel with no sugar!
  I use the sugar free monk fruit maple syrup from Lakanto (code HAYLSKITCHEN gets you a discount)
• Some Water

For the Protein Peanut Butter Frosting:

• Vanilla Protein Powder: I recommend HTLT Supps or Quest Nutrition Vanilla here since it’s whey-casein and blends well with the yogurt.
• Non-fat Greek Yogurt 
• Peanut Butter Powder
• A bit of Unsweetened Almond Milk

And then

• Chopped Peanuts and Chocolate to top!

Tips for the perfect Protein Powder Snickers Cupcakes Recipe

While this protein powder Snickers 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 melted Butter so that it mixes well into the healthy Snickers candy cupcake batter.

• Don’t over-mix the batter!
  Make sure you gently fold the dry mix into the wet to combine them.
  If you over-mix it, the protein powder will make the low calorie protein cupcakes 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 and healthy cupcakes.

• Don’t let the batter sit out too long; Pour immediately into baking pan and bake.
  This is to avoid any reactions between the ingredients.

• Don’t over-fill baking pan cavities or the cupcake batter will overflow!

• Don’t over-bake the mini cake bites or they might get tough; Remove when the tester/knife comes out just dry; Little moisture is okay.

• Let stuffed cupcakes cool completely before filling and frosting, or the filling and frosting will melt away.

• Add water and milk in caramel and frosting little at a time – too much will give you a very runny mixture.

How to Store Snickers Cupcakes with Filling

This Snickers cupcake recipe is a good meal prep snack or dessert and can be stored on the counter, in the fridge or freezer too.

Place Snickers cupcakes with filling 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 Vegan Snickers cupcakes, leave them on the countertop or place them in the fridge overnight. I would not recommend using the microwave.

Alternatives for Healthy Snickers Cupcakes

I made these healthy Snickers cupcakes low fat, low calorie and sugar free with the set of ingredients above, but here’s some options to try. I havn’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.
• 1:1 Zero Calorie Sugar Replacement: Regular confectioners sugar or coconut sugar (this won’t be sugar free though, and also higher in calories)
• Black Cocoa: Regular Unsweetened Cocoa
• Unsweetened Applesauce: Mashed Banana or Pumpkin Puree
• Melted Butter: Melted Coconut Oil or Dairy Free Butter
• Lemon Juice: Apple Cider Vinegar or White Vinegar

Alternatives for Snickers Cupcake Fililng:

• Peanut Butter Powder: 1½ tablespoon Peanut Butter, but reduce water to 1 Tbsp
• Sugar-Free Maple Syrup: Regular Maple Syrup

Options for Snickers Cupcake Frosting

• Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt
• Almond Milk: Regular milk
• Peanut Butter Powder: 2 tablespoon Peanut Butter, but reduce milk to 1 Tbsp

For a Vegan Snickers Cupcake Recipe:

Use a plant based protein powder, dairy free butter and coconut yogurt as alternatives and turn this Snickers cupcake recipe Vegan!

Some Unique Cupcake Recipes with Protein Powder

• Dirt Pudding Protein Cupcakes
• Stuffed Protein Cupcakes!
• Protein Apple Cupcakes with Protein Peanut Butter Frosting
• Mini Chocolate Protein Cakes
• Maple Bacon Protein Cupcakes
• Peanut Butter Protein Cupcakes – Like Tagalong Cookies

More Candy Inspired Protein Powder desserts:

• Protein Snickers Ice Cream Bars
• Homemade Protein Snickers Bars
• Peanut Butter Protein Twix Bars
• Kitkat Protein Bars