Chocolate Avocado Cupcakes

We had quite a few ripe avocados around the house, so I had to find a way to use them up. I wanted to make some guacamole, but my family are not very big on dips, so I decided to make something sweet instead. Baking wise, there is not much you can do with avocados. The recipes I could find mostly were mostly shakes and whips, but I did find one recipe that suggested using avocado in cupcakes. Since I have such a soft spot for cupcakes, I could not resist.

Okay, before you say "ew", hear me out first. Avocado is every cardiac nurse's favorite food. It is very high in monosaturated fat, which lower cholesterol and reduce the chance of heart disease. It's texture is almost like butter, but it is much healthier. So since its texture is so butter like, the recipe I found actually calls for the use of avocado instead of butter in baking. So I followed the recipe and I got some very healthy chocolate cupcakes out of it.

The cupcakes looked like cupcakes and smelled like cupcakes, but they did not taste like cupcakes. They were much denser than the cupcakes I'm use to and they were also not as moist. However, they were definitely healthy, there are no doubt about it. I had absolutely no problem feeding them to my family.

I decorated the cupcakes with the avocado frosting suggested by the recipe. I was not a big fan of the frosting. First of it, the shade was green put me off a bit. It was all natural coloring, but it was weird nonetheless. Secondly, the frosting was much runnier than regular butter frosting so it was super hard to work with. Finally, the texture and the consistency of the frosting were not right.

In conclusion, as healthy as the idea of avocado cupcakes may be, I don't think I'll try it again. Maybe I'll give the cupcakes another try, but I will definitely not make the frosting again. Sometimes you need that little bit of unsaturated fat to taste good. :)