More cupcake love

THIS IS A CUPCAKE...{Vanilla bean with Bavarian cream}

...and THIS is NOT.

I made the SVSU colored cupcakes for my college football boy who happened to be one of the leading tacklers this past week in his game.

He's "a little light in the ass" (as his coaches tell him) so I figured a little buttercream love couldn't hurt to pack on some pounds.

So proud of you Josh. Keep up the good work.

Brownie experiment on Football Friday

(* Note to self: wait until piping dries before packaging)

I made a pan of brownies yesterday morning at 7:30 am. It was one of those very organized, well thought out out mornings. I had put together Jake and Pat's lunches the night before...had the coffee pot ready and fully loaded...why not make brownies?

After I got home from my walk I cut out the brownies with my football cookie cutter. I melted some candy melts with a little peanut butter, poured it over and smoothed it. Then I refrigerated the footballs, piped on some white buttercream, and voila! The yummiest peanut butter browies. And look how darned cute they look packaged in a cello bag with a quick makeshift label! Now the wheels are turning...

One 9x13 pan of brownies only yields 9 footballs with a lot of leftover scraps. What to do with the leftover scraps? Stay tuned to my NEXT experiment.

Mmm. Raspberry filling

Well my cake was the last one posted...the one with blue and yellow. I have to say, my technique is a bit off, but the inside of this cake rocked! Yummy layers of raspberry filling. It was so moist and yummy. As a cake EATER...I definitely would have enjoyed a little bit more frosting. Note to self: LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTOR WHEN SHE SAYS, "The bigger the blob (of frosting), the better the job." After all, you can always scrape off frosting...

my self scoring:

Taste- 9
cake assembly-8
icing- 7
decorating technique- 6

30pts./40

I definitely have some room for improvement... but not bad for my first classroom cake. Next week: Filled Cupcakes. Hmmm...already thinking about what kind of cupcakes I'm going to make.

Cake Decorating Class

Our first cakes...can you guess which one is mine?

Our first cakes...can you guess which one was mine?

A week of fun...following my BLISS

Okay...this week has been one heckuva week for me...from going on a maiden voyage on a friend's boat...freezing batches of pesto, canning salsa and pear sauce...first high school football game of the season (yay Jake for getting the game ball with 14 tackles and one sack!)...Donny and Marie...canoeing on the Tittabawassee river with the man I love...sewing aprons, making lemon curd filled cupcakes, making sugar cookies, and now tonight: The Cake Decorating Class. Oh I'm so excited to do this. I'm going to have to take my camera along to document this process. Keep you posted.

Better get back to sewing those aprons. Of course I offered to make them for our cake class. I finished Jen's and Jordanne's (even though Jen can't be here with us to take the class, sniff)...I still have to make one for Shelby and Sheila...and maybe a new one for myself. Oh the things I do for the girls I love.

my childhood dream come true

Tiger Beat posters of Donny Osmond can't touch seeing Donny and Marie LIVE IN CONCERT at the Soaring Eagle Casino last night. I seriously thought I was going to pee.my.pants! What a class act. They brought their Las Vegas show to Michigan and Holy Whuh...was it amazing.

Yep, you guessed it...I was in love with Donny Osmond when I was a young girl. And last night my childhood dream came true. Swoon. He even sang "Puppy Love" and "Go away little girl". OMG. seriously. I had tears in my eyes! I wanted to tell my dad so bad. He always used to tease me about sleepwalking and looking into the floor register as I told him, "Donny is going to come for me...we are going to get married."

I tried to call my mom after the concert but she must have been at work. I was so excited to tell her. To think how many years I dreamt of seeing Donny Osmond in person and last night...was THE NIGHT.

Wow, those two can put on a show.

Eat Pray Love

Let me just start by saying I don't get out much...especially to movies. So when I even consider going to a movie I read the reviews first...NOT because I am not capable of forming my own opinions...it's because I'm frugal. And if I'm going to drop ten bucks on a movie in the theater...It's gotta be something I absolutely cannot wait to see. (which is why I generally wait for it to come out on dvd and then rent it.) Oh, Patience is a virtue...

I read some reviews on this movie...and decided it was NOT a movie worthy of my ten bucks. I just don't like the story. I'm sick and tired of the "Sex in the City" generation with their narcissistic, self absorbed, gotta "find myself" views on life. Get over yourself already. The world DOES NOT revolve around YOU.


"Oh how I've yearned to find someone who'll call out "finding yourself" as the total bullshit it is. 99% of the time, "finding yourself" is a polite way of saying, "I want to abandon my responsibilities to everyone and everything else and pretend that adult life is what I thought it would be like when I was 15 years old and didn't know any better".

First step in "finding yourself": occasionally think about something other than yourself."

{Posted by: Churchston Winsthill}



Perhaps if people really wanted to "find themselves" they should turn to the instruction manual they got from their manufacturer. Yep...the one who created the masterpiece. The "BIG GUY"...ya know, G.O.D.

skip the movie...and read the instruction manual...or better yet, get to KNOW the producer of your own movie.