1.5 Syn Orange Drizzle Cupcakes

Baking on Slimming World can be just as much fun as it is when you’re making super high syn treats, you just need to have the right recipe! These 1.5 Syn Orange Drizzle Cupcakes are my latest Slimming World bake and I’m super pleased with them. They’re perfect for a taster evening or as a low syn sweet treat to get you through to dinner time. Made with fresh orange juice and zest, they’re simply packed with flavour and the drizzle gives you the most delicious sticky sweet texture. All in all, I’m super pleased with how these have turned out and hope you enjoy them as much as I do!  

Low Syn Baking on Slimming World

Whether you’re looking for the perfect recipe to take to your Slimming World taster evening, or you’re making yourself a batch of these 1.5 Syn Orange Drizzle Cupcakes, you’ll only need about 20 minutes to get them all prepared! They are super easy to make and only need you to have a muffin tray and some cupcake cases! I use a 12 hole muffin tray (find one on Amazon here) which makes these wider but more shallow, but you could easily divide the mixture into a 24 hole muffin tray too for mini cupcakes. The recipe may even stretch further if you do that making each cupcake lower syn! I’ve gone for plain white cupcake cases but if you’re baking for an occasion you can find loads of different styles and colours on Amazon here. 

As the name suggests, these 1.5 Syn Orange Drizzle Cupcakes are just 1.5 syns each when you make 20 cupcakes from the mixture. The syn value works out as so: 

100g Self Raising Flour – 16 syns 

1tsp Baking Soda – 1/2 syn

3 Eggs – syn free

2tbsp Flora Light – 4 syns

100ml Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice – 2 syn

4tbsp Sweetener – 2 syns 

Orange Zest – syn free

25g Icing Sugar – 5 syns 

All of this adds up to make a mixture that is 29 syns in total. Divided between 20 cupcakes this makes 1.45 syns per cupcake, which can be simply rounded up to 1.5 each. If you were to make more cupcakes, or fewer, from this mixture you would simply need to divide 29 by the final number of cupcakes. 

What Sweetener Should You Use? 

This recipe calls for 4tbsp of sweetener but there is so much choice out there it can be tough to know what kind to use. The first thing you should know, is that if you’re baking with sweetener then granulated sweetener is usually best. The powdered versions are often super sweet and highly concentrated, which means they can really throw the flavour of a recipe off, and they often don’t react with the ingredients in the same way as normal sugar would. With that in mind, I recommend using Sukrin:1 sweetener, which is what you’ll usually find me using in my recipes!

So, what is Sukrin:1? It’s a granulated sweetener that can be substituted on a 1:1 basis for regular sugar. This means that if you’re adapting a recipe from a cookbook you can simply use the same amount of Sukrin:1 as the recipe calls for sugar. This makes it ideal for baking, particularly as it bakes in the same way that normal sugar does, so it doesn’t compromise the recipe as many other sweeteners do! You can buy Sukrin:1 on Amazon or from Sukrin’s website directly. For this recipe you can use other brands of granulated sweetener, but always make sure to check the packaging and see whether you will need to add more or less compared to regular sugar. 

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Making 1.5 Syn Orange Drizzle Cupcakes

When it comes to baking on Slimming World, you really don’t get any more simple than these 1.5 Syn Orange Drizzle Cupcakes and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! They will keep for a good few days in the fridge and can be frozen – although as with any cake freezing will most likely impact on the texture once they’re defrosted. 

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