I thought I’d get that picture out-of-the-way right away, since it kind of contradicts the message in my last post! Don’t worry, I’m eating them responsibly. 
Over the weekend I attended a BBQ for my kickball team (yes, there is a whole Kickball League here. Weird, I know.). Now for other events like this since I’ve been trying to eat healthier, I have brought veggie trays so that I’d have something to eat. However, I’ve been dying to make these cupcakes for the last few months and thought this would be the best time since I’d be able to give most of them away! I brought about half of them to the team BBQ, gave another 1/2 dozen to my sweet next-door neighbours (the same ones that cut their tree down that smashed our house… But they also brought us two giant bags of corn on the cob and green peppers from the farmers market when we first moved in, and the kids <3 our pups), and have been slowly munching on the rest. I did attempt to make them slightly healthier… They are pineapple-carrot cupcakes with cream cheese icing, decorated with toasted coconut (my fave), green sparkles (hubby’s fave), and stars (an ode to memorial day weekend). I used only 1/3 the oil the recipe called for and substituted apple sauce for the rest, one fewer egg (only because I ran out…), and a lower fat cream cheese (actually *Neuchâtel* or something like that). I would have used whole-wheat flour, but I figured since I was making them for others and was already making them slightly healthier, I’d better stick with white flour. They were yummy, and it is definitely an exercise in willpower not to eat them all now!
