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! 🙂
Looks fantastic! I would really like to showcase this recipe on my cupcake recipes and ideas blog if you agree.
This is amazing 🙂 I made it today, but I don’t know what to put on for frosting… I don’t have any tofu or else I would have made one of the frostings I saw that you posted. Any ideas?
What about my Vegan Cool Whip as a frosting? Or the Coconut Banana Butter? Or just plain coconut butter (sweetened if desired)?
These were SO good! It’s my husband’s 30th birthday today so I made 3 of these – one for him, one for me, and a little one for our 2 year old. I topped them with your Reese’s Pieces Frosting. Everyone loved them!
My husband has been a big fan of the Pillsbury Funfetti boxed cake for years and I was worried he would be too picky about these, but nope, he said they were BETTER than the funfetti boxed cake!
Great recipe! Will definitely make again!
Hi Katie! I was linked to your blog through Pinterest and I just thought what a small world! I haven’t talked to you in a long time (I’m Tally’s friend). Your blog is amazing! I have been craving a cupcake (just one!) so this is perfect. I’m definitely going to try it out. Also, one of my co-workers mentioned your blog randomly one day and I was like I know her! Just wanted to say hi!! 🙂
Hey Lindsey! How are you? So great to hear from you… last I heard from Tally, you were getting married! 🙂
If I wanted to make a whole batch of these for my birthday what would the portions be? Could you help??? Thanks!
Sorry, I really don’t know. You will have to experiment.
I made this and blogged about it!
http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/cupcake-for-one.html
It was so good.
Excited to try the rest of your single cupcake recipes
Tip: add sprinkles last, otherwise they might bleed!
for how long do we need to leave them in the microwave??? xxoxox
Depends on your microwave’s wattage.
Just made this–I think I used the wrong type of sprinkles, because they turned the batter grey xD either way, it’s delicious! I was a little skeptical at first because the batter wasn’t quite like “normal” cake batter, but it totally worked! Thank you! 🙂 (I used 2 T brown rice flour and 1 T ww flour)
Hi Katie – just wondering about the colorful sprinkles .. are they all natural ? I thought colors usually have dyes in them. Thanks for info. barbara
For all natural sprinkles you can use Let’s Do Organic brand. Katie also has a recipe on here for homemade sprinkles:
https://lett-trim.today/2012/08/07/rainbow-sprinkles-homemade/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E