Yesterday was my baby's First Birthday. My 30 day challenge officially begins tomorrow but since I love baking and have become obsessed with cupcakes I decided to forgo the traditional birthday cake which we usually let our oldest son pick from the store cake book, and just bake up a few batches of yummy cupcakes at home. I had a lot of ingredients already from when I baked for Valentine's Day (side note to guys...even when a woman says she doesn't want anything for Valentine's Day or that she doesn't really care about Valentin'es Day, she DOES and yes you need to get something and/or celebrate...usually best accomplished by making plans ahead of time. Alright, returning to our previously scheduled broadcast.)
I had a hard time narrowing down the recipe list since I would have made them all if I could. Alas, common sense won out in the end and I made four different flavors of cupcakes. I made a Devil's Food Chocolate recipe and added in some chopped semi-sweet chocolate to the mix with a homemade whipped cream frosting, then I made a delicious Coconut cupcake and topped it with homemade cream cheese frosting with coconut flakes, the third flavor was Chai Honey cupcake with a Honey Whipped Cream frosting, and last wast he Pumpkin Cupcakes with Whipped Cream frosting for my little Pumpkin. He wasn't quite sure what to do with it! He got a little of the whipped cream on his hand and just stared at it, clearly not pleased with being dirty. I thought it wast he funniest thing since usually he would not think twice about being covered in food. Children will surprise you at every turn.
I have located my cheap grocery stores, and after getting my hands on some coupons I will be all set. Lets see if I can do this. I'm glad to have you along for the ride.
Love, Katie
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