These taste like your favorite Devil’s Food Cake — chocolatey and tender and just tinged with tang. It’s the cocoa and buttermilk that make them that way. And while I don’t stop baking during this month when the tradition tilts toward self-imposed culinary austerity (better known as dieting) nor do I stop eating sweets, these are cupcakes I can offer to abstemious types knowing that I’m doing no harm to their New Year’s resolutions. The cupcakes are full of flavor and low in fat and calories – proof that miracles are possible.
You can find the story about these cupcakes and the recipe for them and their yogurt topping here.
Photo by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post.