Happy 2012!
Did you stay up ‘til midnight this year?
I had a really low-key Sunday to make up for a crazy New Year’s Eve the night before. Since our party wasn’t starting until ten, Emily and I offered to babysit the two sweetest children in the universe so their parents could go out for dinner.
Normally, I don’t like to babysit–and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve done it since high school—but these girls are a joy to watch. It’s like hanging out with friends, and they love to bake and taste-test for me!
The last time I babysat, we made Fairy Dust Ice Cream.
Saturday, sprinkles took center stage again:
We “pretend” celebrated New Year’s at 8 o’clock. We blew paper horns, drank sparkling apple cider, and the girls ate their cupcakes:
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Single-Lady Funfetti Cupcake
(makes just one cupcake)
- 3 tbsp flour (30g) (See directions for flour notes)
- heaping 1/16th tsp salt
- 1tbsp applesauce, oil, pre-melted vegan butter, or a combo (Try coconut oil. I also like 13g sbl.)
- 1tbsp plus 1 tsp liquid (milk of choice, or water)
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp sprinkles (or more or less, as desired)
- Sweetener (Try 1 tbsp sugar or 1 packet stevia. If you use liquid sweetener, cut back on the other liquid.)
Directions: Preheat the oven to 330 degrees. Mix the ingredients and pour into an oiled (or sprayed) muffin pan. Smooth top of batter. Cook for 12-15ish minutes. (Alternatively, you can cook this in a microwave.)
See the following for Calories and Nutrition Facts.
Notes on flour: I especially like the single-lady cupcakes with spelt flour. But you can use white flour, whole-wheat pastry, or even Arrowhead Mills gluten-free. (Also, if you’ve never done fat-free baking: subbing all the oil in a recipe for applesauce will give you a gummier result. Still yummy, but much denser than your traditional cupcake with oil.)
Questions of the Day:
This New Year’s Eve, did you…
- Stay up until midnight?
- Watch the ball drop in Times Square?
- Eat any lucky foods, such as lentils or greens? Or sprinkles. They’re lucky, right?
For more sprinkles:
Here’s a link to My Funfetti Recipes.
I did end up making a dessert for the New Year’s Eve party as well. That recipe will be tomorrow’s post… Hope you like cookie dough! 🙂
Cute. I need to go buy some sprinkles now!
I LOVE this cupcake! Wish I had seen it yesterday. My birthday is the 1st, and not wanting more dessert around we skipped cake 🙁 This would have been perfect!
Funfetti is my favorite flavor! 🙂
Beautiful, festive cupcake! I’m thinking a Chinese New Year edition is going to find it’s way into my ovens at home! 😉
Thanks for posting the recipe!! Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true and your wishes be granted!
How cute!! Happy New Year 😀
I love this idea! I’ll probably be trying it today actually!
We stayed up all night and ate! We had fireworks and watched some countdown after midnight in different sides of the country 🙂
Funfetti = awesome!!!!
I will have to try this – it looks too fun not to make! Love your bright and colorful photos as always 🙂 Your blog is fun to read!
I actually got home from work early and me and my guy made banana muffins and played the xbox dance game. Wild partiers, I know. Happy new year to everyone.
Hi Katie! Love your blog. I am just wondering what type of Vitamix you use? I want to buy the same one you have so I can make ice cream just as perfect as yours looks! Thanks!
Hi Kate!
My vita is actually really old! I don’t know if they even make it anymore… it’s a 5200.
But here are some of my ice cream tips for how to make it look better: https://lett-trim.today/2010/06/17/how-to-make-homemade-vita-mix-ice-cream/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Looks fun 😀
My sister and I had so much fun we stayed up all night (went to bed at 6am), then got up again at 8.30am, went home, watched Grey’s anatomy all day and went to bed real early..
Ate a lot of greens but didn’t have any lentils..
As for the ball I didn’t watch it drop because I’m Danish and not American 😀
Haha I don’t usually watch it either… I live in Texas, so we’d be celebrating an hour early.
I did watch it on tv once, when I lived in China. That was weird!
Oh my goodness- Funfetti cupcakes! They’re a favorite among my friends and I, but I don’t like to make them often cause of all the weird ingredients. I stayed up til midnight with my friends playing Trivial Pursuit and eating cookies. Yep 😀
So pretty! Gotta love colorful food!
Such an adorable cupcake! We celebrated NYE at a friend’s house “small child style” – which means we did the countdown along with Rio de Janiero at 7pm our time, were home by 8pm, and in bed sound asleep by 9. Our 6 year old, on the other hand, stayed up watching cartoons until midnight. LOL!
Aww those looked like so much fun to decorate 🙂