Week 29 Oct 27th

Again, because this is my blog, my rules. I am breaking them. I am sort of pairing two weeks into one, in a way. Today was all about prep, and will count as Week 29. I am prepping for Halloween cupcakes for the weekend, and UFC cupcakes for the weekend. I went to Bulk Barn today and purchased a few things. (see picture)

I have this idea for Halloween cupcakes, actually two ideas. One a super cute skeleton cupcake

and two a bug adventure cupcake. The skeleton idea, I found from a picture on the internet. See below.

Except, it didn't come with any directions. I am in week 29, I can improvise......right???
Clearly this meant buying yogurt covered pretzels, suckers and some marsh mellows. I think. Then the bug adventure cupcakes, i found in one of my cupcake books. They came with bug outlines.
For the UFC cupcakes, i found another picture on the internet. Boring but achievable.

Stay tuned for Saturday, the big duo unveiling.

Week 28 -Pampered Chef meeting

Going to another meeting tonight for pampered chef, what a great opportunity to get the cupcakes out of the house. Again, I still didn't have the few key ingredients. Silly me. I also didn't have a chance to make them until 6:38pm when I had to be at the meeting by 7:30pm. (Sigh) I made chocolate chocolate. Only because I wanted to nail out the chocolate icing, once and for all! I finally decided that it needs less icing sugar. Makes less icing but tastes way better. Next time I do the chocolate I need to double the recipe to see how it turns out. I batch is not enough for 12 cupcakes. Butter is somewhat expensive, for good butter anyways, and I am finding I am going through sooooo much. I should be tracking my expenses and butter usage. Not to self for later:)
Oh the funniest thing this week. I again did not have the key ingredients. Ha, get it together Kathy. I didn't taste the cupcakes before taking them to the meeting. I did, however, taste them later. Bla, the actual cupcake tasted so dense and boring. No wonder nobody commented on the cupcakes at the party. Good selling feature Kath:(
Coming up, special Halloween cupcakes!

Week 27 Tuesday morning play date:)

First of all, I'm more than halfway there. Holy smokes, where does the time go?
Our friends came over this am to play. So fun. So of course while they are arriving I am starting to make cupcakes:) Chocolate with white icing. I thought it would be nice to have a treat. It was messy and busy to make them with 4 kids running around. I think this is how I thrive making cupcakes. I didn't have a few key ingredients. Baking soda, vanilla, oops.
Anyways, it was great to send some of the cupcakes home with our friends. Get them out of my house:)

Week 26- Early Thanksgiving!

Like I said, my brother was home and my Dad came home from the hospital, so we celebrated. Early thanksgiving. So yummy. Guess what I was in charge of????? Can't guess, dessert. Yummy. This week I made pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing. A new recipe I found, with a few surprise ingredients. They were moist and very rich. Cream cheese icing was a great topper. Good reviews from the fam.

Week 25 Thurs September 29th (Distracted and feeling yucky)

Well, with my Dad in the hospital into this week. I was a little distracted. I also wasn't feeling so great this week, plus my brother came home and it was fun to do some visiting. Challenge challenge challenge! Thank you to my hubby who put on the apron and lent a hand this week. I got out the good old banana chocolate chip recipe, got out the mushy mashy bananas and off he went. This is where you say, ahhhhhh that's so sweet. I am allowed at least one of these in the year right? Too bad, i make the rules and I say yes. So no new news, this week.

Tuesday September 20th Chocolate Ginger

I was on my way to a Pampered Chef party tonight. So I made the Pampered Chef chocolate ginger cupcake recipe. Fresh grated ginger. It was supposed to have a lovely chocolate ginger glaze on top. I say supposed to because I never got that far. My Dad needed to go to the hospital, so off I went with my Mom. Poor Dad. He's since out and on the road to recovery. Feel better Dad.
Needless to say, I didn't even try the chocolate ginger cupcakes and a few of them were wasted. Oh well, next time.

Week 23-Use up the peaches!

It was just peach season and we had some delicious ones sitting on our counter begging to be used. One of my childhood favourite's is apple crisp. My Mom's yummy homemade apple goodness. The kind of baking that you love so much you can taste it even when your not at home. The kind of yumminess that you smell when walk in the door from a long boring day of school and smell lofting the air of your cozy home. The kind of dish that says 'this reminds me of home.' So I have this idea that it would taste just as good as a peach crisp. I spent two days looking up recipes on the internet for amazing peach crisps. NOT ONE of them had a peach crisp with the yummy bottom. All of them were peaches glazed and then a crumble on top. Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't a crumble the kind with the stuff on top only?? a crisp the one with the crispy bottom and crumble on top???
I finally remember to ask my mom for her apple crisp recipe. (As a side note, asking my mom for a recipe is really a funny story in itself. She has to go to the infamous recipe cupboard, and find her recipe book. There is many recipe books in her cupboard, but the only one that is used is ancient and falling apart. It probably only has the capacity to hold 20 recipes but there are at least 100 in it. They are all stuffed in, loose page after loose page. These are the reasons I love this recipe book. None the less, it is funny every time.)
I am excited to make it, but really don't realize how much sugar is in it. It's way too much, I should have known.
The moral is, they turned out wayyyyyy too sweet. I felt really disgusting after eating part of one. Tyson ate one and only one.
I won't be making peach crisp again.