Light Orange Pop Cupcakes | Alight a fluffy cupcake made with light soda!  Full of orange flavor without all the calories of a traditional cupcake.  Watching your calories?  Now you can have a cupcake and still stay on your calorie counting track!

The older I get the more I look for healthier alternatives to my routine without sacrificing flavor.  One good way is by swapping full sugar drinks for the ten calorie drinks.  Now I can get  all the flavor I love without all the calories!  Full of the orange flavor I love and tastes just like other orange drinks!  I was in heaven…. or I thought I was until… what came next.

Just because I’m watching what I eat and drink doesn’t mean I don’t still crave cupcakes.  I had a light bulb moment as I was drinking my Sunkist Ten.  I could make cupcakes with my soda!  All I would have to do is replace the fat and sugar with my soda.

What I got was a light and fluffy cupcake with tons of orange flavor.  The best part is, I shaved a lot of calories off and no one will ever know!  Make these fun cupcakes for an ICE CREAM THEMED PARTY!

These Light Orange Cream Pop Cupcakes take me back to when I was young and would get a 50/50 bar from the ice cream man (truck).   I think they’re called something else  now.   If you like the tastes of these ice cream bars then I’m sure you are going to LOVE these cupcakes.   They tastes exactly like the real thing only with less sugar!

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Light Orange Cream Pop Cupcakes

Yield: Makes 20 Cupcakes

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

It's a Popsicle Party!

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Ingredients

For the Orange Cream Pop Cupcakes:

• 1 white cake mix
• 1 ounce sugar free-fat free vanilla pudding dry mix
• .6 ounce sugar free orange flavored gelatin powder, divided
• 2 teaspoons orange extract
• 12 ounce Sunkist Ten soda

For the Cream Pop Frosting:

• 8 ounce light cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract, divided
• 5 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• optional: Popsicle sticks

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line 2 cupcake tins with cupcake liners and set aside.
3. RESERVE 2 teaspoons of orange gelatin powder and set aside.
4. To a medium mixing bowl add cake mix, pudding dry mix, remaining orange gelatin powder and orange extract.
5. With the mixer on low slowly add the Sunkist Ten soda.
6. Beat until light and fluffy.
7. Drop a level ice cream scoop of batter into cupcake liners.
8. Bake 20 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
9. Cool completely before frosting.

For the Cream Pop Frosting:

1. In a medium mixing bowl combine the cream cheese, butter and vanilla.
2. Beat until light and fluffy.
3. Add confectioners' sugar 1 cup at a time mixing well between each addition.
4. Place one-fourth of the frosting in a smaller bowl and add 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
5. Mix to combine.
6. To the remaining frosting add the reserved gelatin powder and orange zest.
7. Mix until combined making sure to scrap the sides of the bowl.
8. Fill a small piping bag fitted with a #32 tip with the vanilla frosting.
9. Fill a large piping bag fitted with a #6 tip with the orange cream pop frosting.
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11. Pipe a swirl of the orange frosting.
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13. Add a star of the vanilla frosting to the center top.
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15. If desired add a Popsicle stick.
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Notes

This recipe is from Lady Behind The Curtain

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