Cupcakes!! And I'll do orders :)

After making cupcakes for my mom's birthday in November, I have decided that I LOVE making cupcakes. And my cupcakes are REALLY GOOD. So that's my new thing. I just wish I had more events to make them for...so it is official: I can do parties :) I am going to start "advertising" soon (word of mouth, of course).

YUM!!!


Here is my mise-en-place....way better than scrambling around for everything while it is mixing ;)


I LOVE MY KITCHENAID STAND MIXER!!!







BEFORE:




AFTER:
playing around w my piping technique :)




I need some cake pans, and then I can make cakes too...but cupcakes are fun, and so perfect sometimes.

DDL WIN!

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Caramel sauce fail....

I guess I need a new stove.....apparently medium on my stove doesn't get hot enough, so my caramel sauce turned into rock candy. New decision is that tomorrow, I will make dulce de leche...possibly in the slow cooker, then I can control the temp, and all I have to worry about is the water level. Hmm....but I did keep the temp pretty low-medium for fear of burning it, so it may just have been that patience is not a virtue when making caramel sauce....


Here it is looking like it's going pretty well.....





THEN ALL THE WATER EVAPORATED OFF....I tried to "swirl" it but there was nothing left to swirl.... :( maybe next time after I clean all the "rock candy" off the bottom of this pan.



On the plus side, I made this yummy fudge sauce and ate it on ice cream after I got home from work tomorrow....yum!!


Decision: I think I need a new stove.

Resolutions

1. Only photo-related one: make more yummy food and take photos of that. Up first this week: fudge sauce, caramel sauce, and cupcakes later this week.

2. Not photo-related, but: wear more skirts and dresses. The only new clothes I am allowing myself to buy this spring/summer are: work clothes, skirts, dresses, and tights/leggings. Shoes do NOT count as clothes.

3. Work out more: hence the new Y membership.

4. Read more books.

Photos coming soon. Jake is getting my supplies for sauces today while I am at work :)