Kids only turn one once...
Well- you only turn every age once, but that's neither here nor there
So, when my girlfriend told me that she was having a birthday party for her beautiful little girl, I was eager to contribute!
In search of savings, she found these cute little minnie mouse invitations on sale at the store and sent them out...
Now- Minnie mouse has become the theme, even though that was never the plan...
Her main request? Try and make the cupcakes "healthy"
Which is impossible, but it is possible to lower the calorie content.
This post is filled with CRAZY cool baking tips that may change your life!
They changed mine...
A few days before the party, I started the fondant bows
You want to roll out some pink fondant
((I'm a HUGE Marshmallow Fondant (MMF) fan!
1 pack of little marshmallows, melted
1/2 bag of powdered sugar
Lots of elbow grease and crisco))
Using a pizza cutter and a bakers mat, I cut 3 inch strips of pink fondant
Using an old make up brush and some water (it works as glue on fondant) I brush the tips and the center of the strip
Fold the moist ends into the center
Use a very small strip of pink fondant to cover the ends and wrap around the center.
ALSO- buy yourself some mini oreos.
HERE IS WHERE I BLOW YOUR MIND...
Wanna go Low-Cal with cupcakes?
Grab a box of cake mix
and ONE CAN of diet soda...
ANY flavor of diet soda will suffice. GET CREATIVE!
Drop the two ingredients into your mixer, turn it on, walk away
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DIET SODA AND CAKE MIX ARE REALLY THE ONLY INGREDIENTS?!
Yes. And it will come out moist, fluffy, DELICIOUS
LIVE CHANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Add Diet orange soda to yellow cake for creamcicle cupcakes
Add diet rootbeer for rootbeer float cupcakes
Add diet sprite for completely normal tasting cupcakes
NO EGGS
NO MILK
NO BUTTER
NO OIL
This moment just happened....savor it.
Okay- moving on...
Want to get no-mess even sized cupcakes everytime?
Pour your batter into a large ziplock
cut a corner
squeeeeeze away...
That was LIFE CHANGER number two!!
Pipe on your icing...
I live in Florida...
Add a mixture of cornstarch and milk to your icing recipe to make a
high humidity
icing.
It'll hold up in our lovely weather
Add vanilla AND almond extract to taste heaven
Using a straw and some old purple fondant, I cut out a thousand little dots to make polka dots on the cupcakes and used mini oreos as the minnie ears
HOW CUTE!
ENJOY!!!!
There's another look at the finished little guys...such a delicious, lower calorie HIT!
