This past weekend I was in cupcake heaven!!! Seriously people! on Saturday at a birthday party Aidan was invited to ( I tagged along  as he is not quite of “take care of myself age”)  I had the most decadent cupcake EVER! A chocolate cupcake with a surprise inside, an Oreo cookie covered with caramel all topped with cream and a chocolate drizzle , it was sinful! so sinful in fact I had a second [ kudos Jill, you can bake lady!] I thought cupcakes don’t get much more delectable than that until the next day when we visited friends Maro and Sal. Sal had baked some basic vanilla cupcakes and was looking for a way to decorated it, with mutual friend, Carmen’s help the cupcakes where transformed into banoffee gems. The centers of the cupcakes were scooped out and replaced with a slice of banana and a, far to generous for my thighs, scoop of caramel then the whole thing was covered with fresh cream and because it wouldn’t be Sal without a touch of glam the cupcakes were dusted with glitter and served on a heart shaped cutting board [I tried to assist with the decorating, but Sal finds my “messy heaping technique” a bit too measured and neat, hahaha]

With my love of cupcakes completely revived I realized I could NOT go on like this, not if my bet with friends Thulani and Bianca was going to go forward [we are all trying to get into shape and have dared ourselves to meet up in a popular spot sometime at the end of the year wearing our “aspiration outfits”-mine includes shorts so caramel drenched cupcakes are not really ideal]

But I seriously love cupcakes, what is a girl to do? Give up cupcakes? Hahahahahahahah NO! instead I googled and found these great cupcakes all for 120calories or less, SERIOUSLY!!! There is such a thing? Well all the cupcakes in the attached pic claim to be GUILT FREE!

I am going to try these out and let you know…. You can find the recipes at http://www.skinnymom.com/2013/05/19/11-crazy-good-crazy-low-cal-cupcake-recipes/#10  let me know what you think…