- If you hate frosting / don't want to make it / can't make it, you can add 65g (
~ a slightly heaped 1/3 cup) of semisweet
chocolate chips to the batter (sprinkle them onto the batter once it's in the
muffin cups, then poke them into the batter a bit)-- this adds the same number of calories to each cupcake as the frosting