We celebrated Big Red's birthday this week, in fact we are still celebrating.
Yesterday, Red had meetings all over town and I found myself alone with both a half dozen gourmet cupcakes AND a Michigan blueberry crumb pie. Took all the willpower I had to avoid the kitchen. But, I did it.
I am definitely a sugar-chaser. If I have a little sugar in the morning, I will chase it all the live long day.
Last night, I had just half a cupcake. A Just Baked Snowball cupcake. I am still thinking about it. A rich devil's food cake topped with a marshmallowy creamy frosting and shaved coconut. Oh my. I ate every last crumb on the plate. I could have stuck that plate back in the cabinets without anyone the wiser. (I didn't)
This weekend we'll celebrate some more with my big family--with a dinner out, a homemade dessert and a ping-pong tournament.
How do you celebrate with the important people in your life?
love and light and cupcakes
Deborah
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, June 2, 2011
what's the ball count?
we've been celebrating a birthday around here, this week. celebrating our youngest son.
which also means, i've been baking like a fool.
yes, i mean that literally--like a fool.
i baked two 9 inch rounds for a traditional two layer birthday cake. (i don't really like cake and i really don't like sheet cakes....sheet cakes are not festive, in my mind)
that being said, i should have baked a sheet cake.
i let the cakes cool and then began frosting them. the rounded top required a lot more frosting than i had originally figured. all frosted, i carefully covered the cake with the glass dome. i could decorate with swirly lettering after i had cut up two cantalopes and four pounds of strawberries.
this is what i found.
www.cakewrecks.com has nothing on me.
so, then i baked two dozen cupcakes, because i really couldn't put candles in that cake. it would be overkill, right?
then yesterday i made another 48 cupcakes for our little guy's class. and now today i am baking another 48 cupcakes for his baseball team and their families.
oh, and all those little cupcakes are decorated to look like baseballs....if you do the math (i'll save you the trouble) that makes 120 baseball cupcakes.
um, i thought i didn't bake.
oh. yeah. i don't bake WELL.
that's all i've got....i hear the timer going off. sheesh, i hope it's the timer and not the fire alarm.
love and light and cake
deborah
which also means, i've been baking like a fool.
yes, i mean that literally--like a fool.
i baked two 9 inch rounds for a traditional two layer birthday cake. (i don't really like cake and i really don't like sheet cakes....sheet cakes are not festive, in my mind)
that being said, i should have baked a sheet cake.
i let the cakes cool and then began frosting them. the rounded top required a lot more frosting than i had originally figured. all frosted, i carefully covered the cake with the glass dome. i could decorate with swirly lettering after i had cut up two cantalopes and four pounds of strawberries.
this is what i found.
www.cakewrecks.com has nothing on me.
so, then i baked two dozen cupcakes, because i really couldn't put candles in that cake. it would be overkill, right?
then yesterday i made another 48 cupcakes for our little guy's class. and now today i am baking another 48 cupcakes for his baseball team and their families.
oh, and all those little cupcakes are decorated to look like baseballs....if you do the math (i'll save you the trouble) that makes 120 baseball cupcakes.
um, i thought i didn't bake.
oh. yeah. i don't bake WELL.
that's all i've got....i hear the timer going off. sheesh, i hope it's the timer and not the fire alarm.
love and light and cake
deborah
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