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Another healthy recipe that tastes yummy. This should be had as an occasional treat for tea or maybe as breakfast with a glass of juice. Very more-ish.
Carrot-Mango Cupcakes with Coconut-Cream Cheese Frosting
1 cup carrot
1 cup mango pulp/pieces crushed
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp apple sauce
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 large egg
1 cup flour
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinammon
1/8 tsp salt
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 cup small raisins
Frosting:
1/4 cup light cream cheese, chilled (30% less fat)
1 tbsp reduced fat butter
1 1/3 cups powdered sugar
3 tbsp sweetened coconut flakes
Preheat the oven to 350º F / 170 º C
Mix the oil, apple sauce, sugar, egg and vanilla with a beater at medium speed until well blended. Add the shredded carrot and mango. Mix together in a separate bowl the flour, baking powder, cinammon, salt, nutmeg then add slowly into the carrot mix and beat well. Finally, and the raisins into the batter and mix well.
Spoon the mixture into a non -stick muffin tray (12 muffins) and place in the oven for 20-30 mins or until a skewer inserted in the centre of a cupcake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
Place the cream cheese and butter in a bowl and blend with a beater. Slowly add the powdered sugar. At the end, add 2 tbsp of the coconut flakes. When the cupcakes are coo, frost them and then sprinkle over the lefotver coconut flakes. Keep in a closed container in the fridge.
The cupcakes are packed with flavour and are quite healthy considering they are cupcakes, and the best part is that they have only 200 calories each and about 5g fat.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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