Welcome to the Keys!

It’s like a tropical vacation in your mouth that makes you close your eyes and think Florida Keys….Key Lime!  I love this cupcake and it by far seems to be the most popular flavor I make.  It seems like it is the most requested cupcake on the list right now!  It is sweet and tart at the same time…plus you get the traditional graham cracker “crust” with it—I just sprinkle it on top.  It is so good and summery.  How could you not love it!

White Chocolate Raspberry

How good does this look?  I love the White Chocoloate Raspberry cupcakes because their flavor is so delicate, yet it makes your tastebuds happy!  You taste the raspberry, you taste the white chocolate, then you taste the raspberry cream sauce it is filled with and it makes you think you are eating a giant truffle or bon bon –it is just so good.  I think they may be my personal favorite!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A perfect pair? I think so!

This was my husband’s brilliant idea —and no, I am not being sarcastic this time—it truly was a brilliant idea!  What is better than a cupcake…and an oreo?  That’s right…a cupcake with an oreo INSIDE of it! 

Sam’s a Bobcat!

That’s right!  Sam is officially a Bobcat (which is the school mascot).  Today was the first day of school.  He was beyond excited to be there!  He looked so grown up with his book bag on and all ready to go!  He even took the teacher a present for the first day!  Of course it was a cupcake…not just an ordinary cupcake though.  It was a Cookies N Cream cupcake with an oreo inside the cupcake!  mmmm!  I hope it got to her in one piece!  We dropped him off a bit too early today I guess and his teacher was not there yet, so we had to send him to the media center to wait with the other kids.  But I know he got to class ok.   It still kinda ruined my first day for him.  I totally lost it in the car, I won’t lie.  I hate that we did not walk him to his class and get him to his seat.  On Monday, when he goes back, I will see if I can do that and take his picture with his teacher.  He is so proud to be a “school ager” as he calls it.  And I am proud of him as well.  I cannot believe my baby–that seems like he was just born not too long ago, all 6 pounds of him and that precious, tiny, button nose–I cannot believe he left me.  He went and had to go to school.  He is on a new adventure and so are we as parents!  I am sure he will excel in school.  I have nothing but high expectations and I know he is smart.  Now…I think that in a few more years, I will just demand that Emmy stay home and never go away to school or anywhere else.  I just don’t think I can bear to send my last baby to school!  I cannot wait to see Sam when I get home tonight so I can hear all about his first day at school!  We are having a party in celebration, so we are excited about that too!

Thank you Blockbuster!

I love getting presents.  That’s no secret.  I love getting Twilight presents-ok, that may be a secret for some-but, it’s out there now.  So, my friend Anna knows I love Twilight, and as I have said before, she should because she is who introduced me to it.   So sitting at my desk the other day, I get a knock on my door.  Who comes in you ask?  Why, it’s Anna!  And she is bearing gifts.  Not just plain ordinary gifts—gifts of chocolate.  But even better than just some plain old chocolate—this chocolate is wrapped up in sexy deliciousness that IS Edward Cullen.  She informs me she found these treats at Blockbuster.  Awesome, I have plenty of time at lunch to go purchase more!  So, at lunch I go to Blockbuster and I look for them.  There they are.  Jacob, Edward, and Bella–all being nice and sharing one little box full there beside the M&M’s and Wonka Bars.  I grab about 9 of them I think.  There are 3 to a set, so I grabbed a few sets for some friends.  What I had to do next was horrible.  I HAD TO LIE.  So, there was a teenage boy with his mom behind me talking about “how gay” Twilight was (yes, I kept quiet–it would be been impoliote and wrong to turn around and give death stares with his mom there) and on and on.  I suddenly feel ashamed.  I KNOW—anyway.  I get to the register and the girl is like…OOh, you must like Twilight.  I had to lie and say, oh no, these are for a birthday party.  The girls all love Twilight and these are for the treat bags.  OMG.  That lie came to me so fast I never missed a beat.  In the end, I walked out with my candies and I was so excited I had to bit Edward on the way back to work—good thing I grabbed an extra one of him.  I just had to taste it.  They are delish—kinda like a Cadburry Creme Egg you get at Easter.  Yum-o!  So thank you Blockbuster–thank you for supporting and encouraging my obsession even further.  My set of Bella, Jacob and Edward chocolates by Skybar now sit with my collection of Twilight Conversation Hearts behind my desk at work for all the world to see.  And when kids ask if they can have candy—I must inform them, that candy is only to look at, we never ever open it and eat it. 

Oh–and ps—HUGE shout out (I know, who gives a Shout Out)–to Jenny Jerkface from Twitarded (blog on side of my page!)—I LOVE their (jenny jerkface and snarkier than you) site and now they have come to visit mine and have even left a comment!  woohoo!

I vant to eat you!

So, if you know me, you know that I am “unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him” (Bella Swan, Twilight-chapter 9, page 195).- Him would be Edward Cullen.  Next if you know me, you know that I also love Cupcakes and everything cupcakey (I know it is not a word, deal with it!).  So, what better than Twilight cupcakes?!   I made these for a dear friend at work who was movin’ on up in the agency to bigger and better things-yes, she would only be one floor up now and not down the hall, but still–it was a big deal!  So, on her last day I made her these yummy twilight themed cupcakes since she hearts EC as much as I do…if not more, since she is the one who introduced me to him-haha.  So, these were for her and boy were they delish and I had so many wonderful comments on them!  Enjoy!

Pretty in Pink

In Love

Let me just say, there are a lot of things right now that I completely love.  We all know the givens–family, friends, cupcakes, etc..—but what I really love, and have loved for a long time now…my KitchenAid Stand Mixer–my oh so sexy red one that my sweet as pie husband purchased for me as a surprise one night on a trip to Best Buy.  Here I thought he was coming out with the Wii that we went to Best Buy to purchase, and instead, that wonderful man comes out with my baby in his arms!  How excited I was!  I LOVE this thing.  It looks great on my counter tops, it mixes my cakes and icings to perfection, whips up fresh whipped cream like nobody’s business and I just love it!  I coveted these baby’s for a while…so I am so in love with mine and wouldn’t trade him for the world–yes, it is a him!  What are you in love with? (kitchen/cooking wise!).  PS–I got a new Microplane Grater, and a Cupcake Scoop (in 2 sizes!!!), so I expect a post about my love affair with them as well at a later date!

Going, Going, Gone!

My baby loves some cupcakes!

Good things come in small packages!

So who says a little cuppie cannot have as much flavor and awesomeness as a regular size cupcake?  Not me!  There is something about the cuppies I love-more than regulars–they are little, so for one, I can eat more of them! (ok, maybe that is a bad thing?)  They are just little and cute–and they just look like sweet little babies, and who doesn’t love that?  I love that!  I made some to take to a family reunion this past weekend and I think I ended up with about 36 (give or take a few we ate along the way) and I came home with 2 left–I think those two would have been gone, however, we packed up and left before the others, so I had to take them with me.  Everyone loved them.  Chocolate Raspberry with just a small hint of a mocha flavor–they were awesome!  Topped with sugar and a chocolate disc, they were cute too!