Bakery Cupcakes

workingitout

Today my daughter made the high school soccer team so I bought cupcakes from a local bakery to celebrate. They were delicious! BUT when I went to log it into MFP, the calories counts ranged from 110 - 485 and up for one cupcake. To be on the safe side, I chose the 485 calorie cupcake to log. This is a tiny bakery so there are no nutrition facts available. Can anyone make a more solid guess for me, because I still need to eat dinner and I don't know how many calories I have left available!

Here's the details: I ate one traditional sized cupcake. It was chocolate cake with a TON of frosting on top. No sprinkles or additional foods used in the making of this cupcake. It was not oversized but also not miniature. What do you think? Thanks!

kdiamond

I would say the latter is probably correct. 2 tablespoons of frosting is ~ 150 calories, and I would say an average cc has at least much that if not more. Just the cake batter is probably around 200 calories. When I make cupcakes at home using egg whites and applesauce and making my own healthier frosting they are still 200 calories each. So to be safe I would venture somewhere between 400-450.

HealthyChanges2010

I would say the latter is probably correct. 2 tablespoons of frosting is ~ 150 calories, and I would say an average cc has at least much that if not more. Just the cake batter is probably around 200 calories. When I make cupcakes at home using egg whites and applesauce and making my own healthier frosting they are still 200 calories each. So to be safe I would venture somewhere between 400-450.

so sad, but probably true:sad:

workingitout

I'm just glad I worked out hard today and had 750 calories left for dinner, so I still have a tiny bit left after eating that cupcake. This celebration was not planned in advance! Also today I learned that I've crossed some sort of positive line - I enjoyed that one cupcake and had no desire to eat more, and that's definitely a first for me! Thanks for your help in logging this.

AbiLuV

That sounds about right depending on the frosting. A cheat treat is ok once in a while.

Ge0rgiana

Yeah, the one food reward that I gave myself was a red velvet cupcake from a small local bakery. I think I just went ahead and logged it as a Starbucks cupcake because I figured they probably make cupcakes that are "bad" enough. :laugh: I think it was somewhere in the ballpark of 400 and something calories.

Ge0rgiana

I'm just glad I worked out hard today and had 750 calories left for dinner, so I still have a tiny bit left after eating that cupcake. This celebration was not planned in advance! Also today I learned that I've crossed some sort of positive line - I enjoyed that one cupcake and had no desire to eat more, and that's definitely a first for me! Thanks for your help in logging this.

I had that experience too! Since then, I've been able to control myself eating treats where I didn't have control before. Great, isn't it!!!