cream soda cup cakes

Found the recipe at Better Homes & Gardens. I'd say it's a good cupcake. Not outstanding, but pretty good. The icing they suggested, the browned butter icing, too sweet for me really. The cup cake is sort of like a spice cake, but not spice if that makes any sense.

Here are most of the ingredients.

Here are the 2 things missing from above, 2 of Rick's favorite things.

the cream soda really will fizz

done, yummy right?


I did manage to make my own butter milk today and browned butter again. I think the icing is the same as what I had on the snicker doodle cup cakes.

Going to be around, stop for a cup cake.

rainbows on a rainy day

Well we had rain today, at one point the thunder was so loud it woke Abbie and the dog, then it hailed. But we had rainbows.



Rainbow cupcakes.
Here's how they started




*throwing in an Abbie shot*



Here's how they turned out





Here's how Abbie liked them






Next time, cupcake liners you can't see through, marshmallow fondant on top and painted rainbows on the fondant :)

And what a great idea for a birthday cake.

not cup cakes

....but something sweet.

Strawberry jam. They had a GREAT deal on strawberries at the Soulard Market when we were home, so I chopped them, froze them and then brought them home and jellied them :) I guess it's jam because it's chunky and not just clear, but it's yummy none the less. The strawberries weren't super sweet, but that's ok because there's 2 cups more sugar than strawberry in those jars. The lids all popped. I'm not sure how much strawberry jam is at the store, but for 15 bucks I got this much

I figure it's about 16 or 17 jars the same size as smuckers.

fondant

so I tried something new. I've never worked with fondant, I made it and worked with it. Simple yellow cupcakes with cream cheese icing under the fondant. Came out cute I think. I'm going to practice on a cake this weekend I think.

I was pretty tired by the time I got to work on them.

Not bad for sleepy I guess

and the fondant tastes yummy, not like the wilton or premade kind, tastes like marshmallows :)

Night

stay tuned for next week

We tried making cupcake pops, but huge disaster. Really not sure what I did wrong, but anyway, next week pretty cupcakes I think.