How Many Calories Are In A Dq Cupcake?

But if you had an ice cream cake, especially an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen, you were at the tippy top. Did you know DQ makes a sundae-sized version of its ice cream cake? It’s called a Dairy Queen cupcake—and you don’t have to save it for birthdays! You don’t have to worry about asking for something off of the secret menu here.

Many of our cupcake recipes have about 300 calories-we use healthy tricks to keep our cupcakes healthier and still tasty, like using slightly less sugar or adding a little whole-wheat flour to the cake batter and yogurt to the frosting.

Ice Cream Cakes: Dairy Queen ice cream cakes are available in 8- and 10-inch round and 11′′ x 14′′ sheet sizes. An 8-inch Oreo Blizzard cake comes in at around 4,500 calories, 200 grams of fat and 600 grams of carbs.

The cupcake itself is a chocolate cupcake that features an “irresistible fudge and crunch center that’s surrounded by creamy vanilla and chocolate soft serve.” Delicious. Not all Dairy Queen locations will have this treat, though.

Why are cupcakes higher in calories?

In general, they’re higher in calories, sugar and saturated fat because they’re usually bigger than a homemade cupcake and have those giant frosting swirls on top.

Calories in a mini bakery cupcake with frosting. Calories: 90.

But boxed cake mix comes with ingredients like Yellow 5, Red 40 and artificial flavor. Calories in store-bought vanilla frosting (2 Tbsp.) Calories: 140.

And then there’s the frosting. Homemade cupcakes are high in sugar, but ingredients-wise they’re “clean” because they don’t contain any additives or preservatives. The ingredients are usually just butter, eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, vanilla and milk. Get more: Healthy Cupcake Recipes.

The Dietary Guidelines still recommend limiting saturated fat in your diet to less than 10 percent of your daily calories (and instead eating more healthy unsaturated fats). Ingredients are important, too, and can vary greatly depending on how a cupcake is made.

Cupcakes are high in sugar and saturated fat, two nutrients that should be consumed in moderation. Women should stay under 24 grams of added sugar per day, and men should aim for less than 36 grams per day.

Unicorn Cupcakes. Pictured recipe: Unicorn Cupcakes. Homemade cupcakes are cupcakes you whip up from scratch-flour, butter, eggs, sugar and all. The number of calories in homemade cupcakes depends on how much batter you’re making and how many cupcakes you’re dividing that between-for example, are you using a standard 12-cup muffin tin …