Week 48 TAKE TWO and a BIRTHDAY BASH

So Tyson's birthday was March 7th so we had to bake a little more this week. No complaints here, I had the opportunity to make a cake instead of cupcakes.
All he requested was we have a chocolate cake with homemade chocolate icing. Now that I have done so much baking his taste buds are picking on the homemade baking.
I found a recipe that included chocolate pudding and extra chocolate chips for his chocolate cake. Are you sensing a theme yet.....chocolate. Do you know my husband a little yet??? He's born and raised (i don't know if he was really raised on chocolate, but it sounds good) chocolate oholic!!
So to top it off, I made it a double decker, with homemade real whipped ,from scratch, cream with an additive for firmness. I had the whipped topping as the middle and then frosted the entire double decker of a cake with my homemade chocolate icing.
Let's just say, this cake was amazing! Moist, rich, gooey and delicious. Most of us could only handle a small piece. Tyson on the other hand ate that cake for lunch, dinner, and every meal after for 48hrs until the entire cake was gone. That has to mean it tasted good, or he wouldn't of eaten it.
Picture was taken and will be attached to this soon. The cake did start to slide immediately after we cut into it, causing it to avalanche into a giant blob!
A blob for the blog!

March 5th Week 48 Zucchini takes over!

Here come the vegetables taking over the cupcake world/challenge again!
Well the zucchini were taking over my fridge, after the weekend when I happened to get an amazing deal at the market and felt the need to purchase 6 zucchini. Really who needs that many? If I would of consulted any zucchini recipes before hand I would of seen that any recipe calls for 1/2 to no more than 1 cup of zucchini at a time. Do you know how many cups you can get from 1 giant zucchini?
I'll tell you, at least 2.
That's 2 cups of zucchini X 6 zucchini = 12 cups of zucchini!!!! AKA toooooo much ZUCCHINI
Say ZUCCHINI 3 times fast.......... funny word isn't it?
So, thanks to my dear baking friend Mairghread, who passed on her mom's zucchini loaf recipe.
I was able to make chocolate zucchini loaf and cupcakes.
I was on my way to London to visit our other dear friends, who really didn't have a choice in the matter, zucchini was coming there way.
I don't know if they were just being nice, but apparently the loaf/cupcakes were a hit. Myself personally, i didn't like the mix of chocolate and zucchini. I think I would of like the zucchini on it's own or chocolate on it's own.
That's 1 zucchini down and 5 to go.......... 1 used in stir fry check.....1 given to family check..... 1 fed to the deer out back check.....and 2 wasted. Sorry couldn't come up with anymore zucchini times.
Won't be buying it for a long time:)

Week 43-47 Muffins, repeats and Valentines Day

So boring post, but I did quite a few repeats this month. Chocolate chocolate, chocolate with vanilla butter cream icing. Chocolate chip muffins (which were a sub from my choc/raspberry muffins, no raspberries), banana chocolate muffins and well you get the point.
I have been on a huge muffin kick being prego.
Valentines Day Telsche and I did do some baking together. Chocolate brownie cupcakes from scratch. Not the greatest recipe, won't do that again. Dry chocolate.
You ever have those weeks or those months were the time just flies by and your not sure how you got to where your at, or what even happened?? That was February here. Could be because everyone in the house had the flu.....twice, then a cold, could be because I am getting more and more prego by the second, or that my husband moved two office locations.
Regardless, the challenge happened every week, and I never missed a deadline.
Still on track.

Week 43-January 31st

Time to perfect the VANILLA CUPCAKE. Mission started, mission accomplished.
Yahoo, vanilla is done and we are moving on. Use white sugar, don't substitute, use white flour, don't substitute. Don't mind the picture of my horrible icing job. I was at my parents, and really this week was all about taste, not looks. I just took a picture so you knew I am not just making this up week to week:::)))  Hmmm next week??????

Week 42- Bunny's Birthday

Why not celebrate our beloved bunny. Bunny has been with us through thick and thin, he's been tossed, bounced, washed, thrown in the mud, hidden in blankets, covered in paint/barf/water/snow/mud etc, and he is perfect! When I say I am making cupcakes today, Telsche says 'yeah a birthday party'. So we had a planned party for Bunny. Invited a few special guests of course, Grandma and Papa. Picked a perfect cupcake to make. Cookie monster of course, for bunny. Well, it's a party then.
I was working on the vanilla cupcake that I have been avoiding. The decoration was for fun, but turned out really great. I used a ziplock bag for the decorating, first with tip and then no tip. No tip, was much easier.
Vanilla cupcakes, not so great. Dry and dense. Of course I used brown sugar instead of white because that's all I had. Not a great idea. Pictures!!!!!!!!!

Ps, bunny turned two today:)

Week 41-Square to cirlce

January 14th, 2012. Our annual visit with my husbands family in Oshawa. I made mars bar squares. Super yummy. Would be easy to put into a circular cupcake form, but I didn't. GASP! Yep, i knew i could and I didn't. I left them in the square pan, and then cut them into square shapes. Seemed so wrong, after so many circle cupcake.
ha, oh well, next week.

Week 40

Plain and simple- Jan 10th, bed assembly, early morning. Chocolate chip muffins.