Yummy cupcakes and an owl.

I came home one night craving something sweet.
I thought of passing by Barnes & Noble Bookstore to get some sweet pastry of some sort,
but thought, hey, why not just bake them myself? ;)

In the spirit of full disclosure, there cupcakes were made from a mix
(Duncan Hines Yellow - yum!).
But the recipe is truly unique in that it has diet soda!

"Whaaat?"

Yep, you read that right!
Instead of oil and 3 whole eggs, 10 oz. of diet soda and 2 egg whites were used.
The recipe was one I happened upon all by accident at this genius blog by Gina. :)

Even the frosting was made from a recipe from Gina's blog.
It's the low fat cream cheese frosting, using low fat cream cheese. So simple!

And I had one of these babies with a hot cup of tea.
In my favorite owl teacup of course. :)