Minnie Mouse Low-Cal Cupcakes?

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!