I Will Drink to That!

HELLO EVERYONE!!!!

Did you miss me?  I missed you! 

Where the heck have I been?  Well in my spare time I like to sing.  This year my Alma Mater is putting on a production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" and I was cast to play Rona Lisa Peretti!  So many (most, almost all) of my nights are taken to learn this musical.  Want to watch it?!  Don't you worry your pretty little heads about it, I will send out reminders via this blog and Facebook.

So what is coming up?  St. Patrick's Day!!!!   While I love the Guinness Cupcake (my personal favoriate cupcake) this year I wanted to do something different. 

So Whiskey Cake here I come!  The recipe came from Sprinkles Bakes and I used the same recipe EXCEPT she used an Irish Whiskey and I just used Jake Daniel's.  I would have used Irish whiskey but that stuff is EXPENSIVE and I was not down for spending 30 bucks on some whiskey. 

So let us begin.

now eat it!

So that is my cupcake for St. Paddy day.  I found out that I have some Irish in me (on my mom's side) so you can totally kiss me if you want. 

Be safe out there.  Be kind to one another, and remember to eat cupcakes!

Love and Frosting,

Cup-e-Cake Gang

Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself a Letter

Hello Everyone,

I'm gonna sit right down
And write myself a letter
And make believe it came from you
I'm gonna write words oh-so sweet
They're gonna knock me off my feet
A lot of kisses on the bottom
I'll be glad I got 'em

Do you know that song?  Ella Fitzgerald is amazing!  While I was making these cupcakes I sang this song to myself which can be deemed as sad...but it wasn't. 

My cyber-baking friend from Twelve Five Cakery told me that Target was selling Valentine's Day mailboxes.  How cute is that?!  Then we thought about what to do with said mailbox and it was decided to make some love letters. 
So here we go.

Then I made some hearts and sprinkled them.

I really liked these pictures so I took a lot of pictures.

Here is the song that I love:



So I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day.  Even if you have no one "special" in your life you do have people who love you.  So make sure you remember that love is all around.  Love your friends.  Love your pets.  Love each other.

Love and Frosting,

Cup-e-Cake Gang

Molten Chocolate Cake Disaster

Hello Everyone,

'Tis the season for chocolate.  I have a love/hate relationship with chocolate. On any given day I would prefer to eat something sugary as opposed to something chocolatey but there is one chocolate dessert that I would marry.

What is that?

The Molten Lava Chocolate Cake from Chili's (thanks Stacy.  I really do need someone to edit this thing for me :).  That dessert is AMAZING!

So since love is in the air I thought it would be nice for us all to learn how to make this amazing dish.  I found a recipe from The Pioneer Woman and got to work.   

This is the point where I would normally show a "look at the oozing center" picture...but I over baked the little guys and there was no oozing center.

I did have a back up plan...but that failed...miserably!

I had a ramekin filled with chocolatey goodness that actually was baked right.  Why dont I show you that?

Well I can...Here is it....

In the process of flipping the ramekin onto a plate that was clearly too small I not only burned myself with molten chocolate lava, but I also broke my ramekin.

Sad day for baking.  Sad day for my hand.  Sad day for my ramekin.

Love and Frosting,

Cup-e-Cake Gang