The holy grail…
… of cupcake wrappers!
AND THEY’RE ALL MINE!
We are celebrating Mr. A’s birthday next weekend, which of course is all the excuse I need to try out some new cupcake recipes THIS weekend. I am NOT going to have a repeat of Ms. E’s Birthday! While the actual cupcakes were to. die. for. I was a bit bummed with the presentation. There I was thinking that BROWN cupcake wrappers were a NORMAL thing to find. I mean come on, BROWN was the rage! Man was I WRONG! Not this time, I am a week ahead of the game. Amazing! I found these and a couple other goodies I’ll show later over at Bake It Pretty. Let just say… there may or may not be candy buttons involved! And owls. Lots of owls!
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Kelli, YOU ROCK!
So look what got dropped off at my door yesterday!
Upon reading my obsessive cupcake blog from last June she decided it was high time for me to partake in one of her favorite places. So as a thank you for lending out my husband to fix their drywall, SPRINKLES cupcakes are what I…err…we received! Holy smokes! What you may not know is that it is a good hour drive to get these babies, and I still had never had them! OH MY, YUMMY! They are all I thought they would be and more! Moist, cakey, not-too-sweet-goodness! I am always in search of cupcakes to try, and these for sure take the cake– pun intended. I am hooked.
THANK YOU KELLI, MATT, and IVY! It was so considerate of you. Do you have anything else Mr. K can fix? We work for cupcakes.
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Eggnog Cookie Goodness and a HAPPY NEW YEAR
Oh my my my! No posts since September! WOW. Well, I do have a great excuse this time around; I am pregnant with baby #2 and have been feeling like crap for a good three months, which means I have been doing absolutely NOTHING creative, just trying to keep my little family on track with the bare minimum. The good news, however, is that I am doing much better now, and am back to my old self and am looking forward to doing some creative things in the next few months before I am hit with more changes! We are expecting a little boy in April so there is much to be done around here, but in the mean time I wanted to share the most fabulous find of the season. My mother-in-law’s Eggnog Cookie Recipe… hopefully she won’t mind. She made it herself, and they are divine!
I realize that eggnog isn’t everybody’s favorite, but these cookies are the most cakey, soft, and delicious treat ever. My mother-in-law made up this recipe based on a buttermilk cookie recipe she has made for years upon the request of my niece last year who LOVES eggnog almost as much as I do. It is simple and pretty difficult to screw up in my opinion. And just a hint, they are SO much better the second day after sitting overnight in an airtight container. I don’t know what it is about it, probably the moisture of the frosting or something, but boy-oh-boy are they GREAT! Just to see if I could, I made a little 3×5 recipe card for ya’ll, I think it turned out pretty nifty. I hope you enjoy them as much as me, I just had to share the love. Please leave a comment and tell me what you think, it could just be me and my wacky pregnancy preferences, but I doubt it!!
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I couldn’t keep all the yummy-cakey-goodness to myself so I sent some over to my neighbors as a New Year’s treat, plus I HAD to use these sweet little treat boxes I found at Michael’s this season! I had every intention of doing more baking than I did and sharing the wealth, but this is all that ended up being gifted. Better luck next year I guess.
I hope you all have a wonderfully fabulous 2009! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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A bit of strawberry cake goodness!
Another not so recent post.
Still in the Funk.
I plan to get better after the aproaching long weekend mini-vacay to Mammoth!
I have received a few requests for the recipe I used for the 4 dozen cupcakes at Miss E’s first birthday a few months back, and I just received another! It is time to spill it, including all my hints for you non-seasoned bakers (me included)!
First off let me say that I absolutely adore Sprinkles, I imagine that they are the most scrumptious cupcakes around– but I wouldn’t know exactly because I have not exactly eaten one before. BUT, I have been promising myself a trip to Beverly Hills for paper and cupcakes, (sigh) someday! Taste aside, I love the simplistic, elegant, homemade look of them. The swirl is perfect. Every one is a bit different, and the marzipan marking system is brilliant and lovely. SO, you can imagine my absolute elation and lasting excitement when I found THIS and THIS! The exact recipe from Candace herself, EUREKA! (I realize this may not be the exact exact recipe that is actually used, but please, don’t tell me that, I am perfectly content thinking that it IS!)
I am not going to go into any detail about the making process, who am I to think that I can do any better job than Martha herself and Candace… but I will let you in on three things:
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want a boy? eat breakfast cereal! Honest!
A new study out of the University of Exeter suggests a strong link between high glucose levels in the early days of your pregnancy and preconception and having a boy.
“According to a survey of 740 British mums to be, a high-calorie diet is more likely to lead to a baby boy in nine months’ time.”
“The level of calorie intake was the main dietary factor that affected offspring sex, say the researchers, who report their research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 1. Overall, women in Matthews’s study who produced sons ate an average of 180 calories more per day than those who had daughters — “the equivalent of eating a banana”, she says.”
Higher glucose levels were found in mothers who gave birth to boys, but interestingly there was also a correlation between mothers who routinely ate breakfast cereal.
“The researchers are unsure of why this happens, although they suggest that it could be to do with levels of glucose in the blood. Male test-tube embryos generally require a more glucose-rich growth medium to survive in the lab — Mathews suspects that a similar process may operate in the uterus, so women with higher sugar levels are more likely to nurture a male embryo as it is implanted in the womb lining.”
So eat up! Or don’t. Personally when that time comes I am going to load up on Whole Food’s Fruit Loops!!
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