Oh hi.

Yeah, so it took me a few more days to actually bake something but I am getting the pictures up the next day! That doesn't happen often.  Life has just been SO busy with, oh you know, awesome things.  But that's not what this blog is about.  This blog is about baking!! Yayayayay!

So...I made apple cranberry crumble cupcakes, which has been a mouthful everytime I say it. 

I don't know if it's my phone or just bad lighting in the kitchen but all my stuff comes out looking very yellow.  I'm going to start making my sister drive all the way from Houston to take pictures because she knows what she is doing.

Anyways, back to the cupcakes. Incredible.  Really could have used more apple but practice makes perfect! (Didn't help that the husband was stealing bites as he was cutting.) So Steven, if you want one you will probably have to come over today because I don't think they will survive the night!

Yeah...I'm still alive

Someone has informed me that I haven't updated in a while and my one year anniversary has passed.  Which means I only have one more year to finish this cookbook. (Thanks Steven)

Guess I should get back into the swing of things.  I've made a few goodies, some have been photographed and some not...but we won't worry about those because they weren't even in the cookbook!

I know I've said this before..but I will try my hardest to make something this weekend!

Happy Birthday Bekki!

There are too many birthday's this month.  So maybe cupcakes next month!  Over the weekend was my friend Bekki's birthday.  She's an 80's freak so of course we had an 80's themed party.  And of course I made her a cake.

Yay for pacman! Half of it was chocolate and half was white cake.  I dyed the white cake purple, blue, and green but I didn't get a picture of it.  It's basically like my last post though.


And here are some pictures of us crazy kids!

Debbie and George! Don't we look just like them!?

Yeah....not really...but we tried!

 Here is the birthday girl all pretty in pink.

Some silly bathroom pictures.

And here we have Freddie Mercury and George Michael trying to turn poor Josh.  And Steven has a piano key tie!

Happy Birthday Sister!

I know, I know....I was supposed to get back to the cupcakes but this was a very special occasion!  It was my sister's 30th birthday.  Love you sister!  She's a fan of the rainbow, but come on...who isn't?  I saw this really cool idea on babble.com.  It's a rainbow cake in a jar! How neat!

This is what it was supposed to look like.

Isn't it beautiful!  Yeah! I thought so too!  So brilliant me decided to do this an hour before we left for Houston to see her.....

So I go to the store get what I need....food coloring, quart size canning jars, sprinkles....QUART SIZED CANNING JARS?!  I guess I just thought that was a jumbo spoon or something (it does look pretty big)...The recipe called for pint sized canning jars...no big deal! I'll just make 2 jars instead of 3!  So still being my brilliant self didn't think about cooking time....(also did it in the microwave instead of the oven because it said 2 minutes instead of 40! Woo!).....

WRONG...For some reason I couldn't get them to cook on the outsides....but the inside was done!  I said what the hell...took them to Houston and presented them the next day....this is how it all went down.

Yeah, it's pretty ugly.  It may be rainbow colors but it's no rainbow. 

Oh look! It's much prettier out of the jar!  She ate quite a bit, then got a phone call and let the cake sit.......

This started to appear....goo...this is after being microwaved for...oh I don't know 6 minutes?.....So we removed the icing and nuked it some more...Eventually everything was well again!

Take a look at this rainbow cake in a bowl! It really did turn out pretty and gooooood. 

I just know better than to wait until the last minute, and I won't be cutting any corners next time!

Look! I do still bake!

This is something my boss asked me if I could make. I had never tried it before so I thought I would! It's a chocolate chip cake. It was SO good. My boss approved.

Flan is something I've always wanted to try to make, which is weird because I've never actually eaten it before. I don't care for it. It was kind of boring...or it was exactly how it was supposed to be, I don't know because I've never had it! My darling husband called it egg jell-o. What a sweetie...

This is a pink lady cake. My mom asked me to make something for her friend's birthday so this is what I found. I heard it was good. I hope they really enjoyed it. It was a devil's food cake with pink frosting and lady fingers around the edge.

It's been so long since I made these that I don't remember what they are called. Let's call them, cream cheese awesome. They were pretty damn good. The "shell" is a tortilla, filling is cream cheese, and it was obviously topped with blueberries! You could put anything on top. Maybe I'll do chocolate next time. Mmm...

I feel like I'm getting away from what the actual blog is supposed to be. Cupcakes. I think I'll try to make some from the original book this week. Wish me luck.

We could use some internet.

I would probably...maybe....update more often if I didn't have to go to my parent's house every time I needed some internet! I'm also getting bad about not taking pictures of my goodies....

Since the AMAZING ice cream toffee pie, I've made some walnut clusters (which were grand), a caramel apple cheese cake (the family says I have to make it again), and ZOMBIES!

These were made for Steven for his birthday. They are green velvet with cream cheese icing. They were supposed to have arms reaching up at the last cupcake standing but all I could think of was pipe cleaners and they left fuzzies EVERYWHERE. It's all good....some zombies don't have arms...

Drawing the faces was the hardest part because if the liners, but Bruce Campbell's (or who ever you want it to be, Steven) face turned out awesome...

And of course zombies have to have guts when you slice them open! They were so good!

Home sweet home.

I know I've been neglecting the cupcakes but I've had a lot going on! We moved back to the good ol' town of Longview, America, and we are living in a camper. So it's hard to even get around to doing anything, especially baking. I have been cooking dinner for my parents. (It's a way of income or I wouldn't just do it every night) Love you mom! With dinner comes dessert! So I do have a few things I've been doing but still no cupcakes. When we get settled in a bit more I might be in the kitchen more.

These are apple pockets. They remind me of apple pies you get at McDonald's although I don't think I've ever had one. They were really good warmed up and with some ice cream!

These are chocolate biscuit puffs. And they were a bust, literally! The chocolate was supposed to stay inside of the biscuit but it obviously didn't. I'm not a big fan of bread so I really didn't care too much for these.

This beautiful creation is my lemon blueberry cheese cake. It was so light and fluffy. Yum! It was made with cottage cheese and only 171 calories a serving!

Tonight we will be feasting on the caramel toffee ice cream pie. I'm so excited! It's so pretty and super easy to make. It just has to freeze for 6 more hours...

If anyone ever wants a recipe don't be afraid to ask!