My family has gotten so used to me baking every weekend that they've started expecting me to produce something by the time Saturday rolls around. My niece is my Number 1 taste tester, and she's even coined my goodies Weekend Cupcakes. :-) It was her birthday last June 12th and she requested chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. Here she is with her mom:
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| Great looking cake from Shoppersville |
The following Sunday was Father's Day and I thought of trying a butter cupcake recipe I found and then dipping them in chocolate glaze. The cupcakes tasted good but unfortunately I had absentmindedly opened the oven door 10 minutes after I put the muffin pans in (I put the excess batter in a loaf pan and wanted to bake them all together). This caused the cupcakes to collapse. And then the chocolate glaze I used was too thin and ended up running over and being soaked by the cupcakes.
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| Chocolate glaze running all over the place |
And then this afternoon I made chocolate chip banana muffins. I loved the taste of bananas and chocolates together, and they reminded me of a favorite chocolate chip banana cookies recipe I also love. The muffins were very easy to make and ended up quite as moist as banana cake. I must make more than one recipe next time.
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| Not the healthiest muffins on the block |
And in between all that, I've also been obsessing over getting my OS X upgraded to Snow Leopard. Yes, I'd waited all this time to upgrade, and I hadn't really planned on doing it because I thought I'd wait for the next big OS X upgrade. But then when news of the Lion release came out, I found out that I wouldn't be able to "skip" Snow Leopard because I'd need Mac App Store to purchase a Lion upgrade.
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| Image from Apple.com |
Anyway, my problem now is that none of the Apple resellers here have Snow Leopard stock. I'd already left my contact details with a reseller with instructions to contact me as soon as new stocks arrive. If worse comes to worst, I'll order from the local Apple online store. :-)
