5 Secretly Healthy Cupcake Recipes

Not even halfway through January and your dedication to your #healthy2015 resolution is already waning (along with your tolerance for winter)? The key to staying strong is not depriving yourself of goodies, but rather turning indulgences into better-for-you treats. You can have your (cup)cake and eat it too. Healthy-dessert fanatic Katie Higgins, of both the blog and new book Chocolate-Covered Katie, tells you how, with these five recipes.

1. Red Velvet Cupcakes

No one will ever guess that these healthy red velvet cupcakes are secretly low-calorie, vegan, and completely free of food coloring!

2. Customizable Breakfast Cupcakes 

Healthy enough to eat for breakfast... Haven't you always wanted to eat cupcakes for breakfast?!

3. Hummingbird Cupcakes

Based on Southern Living Magazine's number-one most requested recipe of all time, these healthy hummingbird cupcakes literally melt in your mouth.

4. Cookie-Dough-Stuffed Cupcakes

It's cookie dough inside a cupcake. Enough said.

5. Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cupcakes

These oil-free cupcakes are filled with peppermint whipped cream. But at under 100 calories each, they only taste sinful!