Invasion of the Miniature Cupcakes

I got a really cute lunchbox for my birthday, partly because I've become a big fan of bento-style lunches.

Basically, anything miniature or cute and food-related might be found in a bento. So I had this great idea. Last week I wanted to make cupcakes, but I can't put full sized cupcakes in my lunchbox to take to work. But if I made miniature cupcakes, they would fit in my bento lunchbox! As an added benefit, I could eat just one or two cupcakes at a time, and it wouldn't be as unhealthy as eating an entire cupcake...just enough to satisfy a craving, if you will. When I discovered that Target had adorable miniature easter-print cupcake wrappers for sale, it seemed like fate! Right? Right?

So I bustled around in the kitchen mixing up my cupcake batter, and set to work pouring cupcakes in my single 12-cupcake mini-tin. I figured it would make more cupcakes than if I were making normally sized ones, but I was ok with that. What's, say, twice as many cupcakes as usual when they're so little and cute? So I started baking.

There were 12 cupcakes...they were adorable.

Then there were 12 more...still pretty cute.

Then, 12 more. Wow...that's a lot of cupcakes...

until...

Oh gosh, there were 72 cupcakes on my table that needed to be iced.


Luckily, two were "helpfully" snatched up by Matt before I got around to icing, but that still left 70 cupcakes sitting on my table. I ate some. I gave some away. I ate some more. I gave some to Matt too take to his game night with the guys. I ate some more...

One box of Funfetti cake mix
One jar of sprinkle frosting

72 mini cupcakes.