Muffin day

Yesterday was muffin day and today was supposed to be cupcake day. But I hadn't realized that I had used up my paper liners, so no cupcakes today... which is a darn shame because I was supposed to try making butter cupcakes too, using Lola Tentay's chocolate icing recipe as glaze.

I got my muffin recipe from this site and since I've missed muffins from French Baker I decided to make them. They weren't complicated to make, and in fact the directions are similar to making pancake batter. They came out cute -- like real muffins! :)

They were all gone in 3 hours, and my brother-in-law even set aside one for himself for the next day. I must make them again and this time triple the recipe!

"I'm never going to be average."

I read Baby Blues in the paper everyday and I've even subscribed to its RSS link so I can read the ones I liked again. This is one of my favorites.

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Cupcake experiment Part 2

Because of last week's frosting "disaster," this week I decided to make the same chocolate cupcakes but use a peanut butter frosting instead... and they turned out great! Everyone in the family said they tasted good and was much better than the ones I made last week. Well, everyone except my brother-in-law, at least (who said that peanut butter and chocolate don't go together -- he must be nuts).

I loooove peanut butter so it's no wonder that I loved the frosting.

P.S. The boys loved "decorating" them with candy sprinkles.

A cupcake experiment

I had never been that interested in making cupcakes, and I don't usually like eating them either, but after reading all the cupcake tweets and seeing photos of my friends' cupcakes on twitter I decided to give it a shot. After all, I've already baked cake and all you need to do is simply following the instructions to a T so I thought making cupcakes would be something like that.

First, I needed to decide what kind of cupcake to make, because there are tons of recipes out there in the wild, wild web. After narrowing it down to vanilla, butter, and chocolate cupcakes, I finally decided on chocolate. Because you know, when you have a kid, chocolate is a no-brainer.

Then of course, being the OC person that I am, I had to decide on the icing. I wanted to do everything right even if it's my first time and you're allowed to fail on your first try. I chose to make buttercream icing because I saw that people usually used this to ice their cuppies.

Finally, I gathered all the ingredients and made sure I had the right pans, then I settled down to the task. It wasn't that difficult but I got so stressed out by the two boys (my son and my nephew) nagging me to let them take a lick of the batter. The cupcakes came out beautifully but since they took a while to cool completely, I couldn't ice them right away and decided to save the icing for the next day.

The icing was quite easy to make, but putting them on the cupcakes and making them look nice was the hard part.

Anticipation

I'm eager to get my hands on the Kindle I ordered on Amazon, and while waiting to get it I downloaded Kindle for my laptop, as well as some free ebooks (also from Amazon). I cannot wait! I looked for a case on ebay but I didn't see any that I liked so I got this cute sleeve from fireweedlane on etsy. Shipping to the Philippines only costs $5 and I expect that it will take 3 to 4 weeks to arrive, but that's okay. I'm willing to be patient. :-)

Photos from fireweedlane of etsy