Go Bananas!

Hi all,

Today, I saw 3 old bananas that were begging to be throw away... or just ripe enough to be made into delicious chocolate banana cupcakes. So, I went down to the stores and bought the only missing ingredient from the Williams Sonoma recipe: buttermilk. Unlike the red velvet cupcakes my friend Victoria and I made, these cupcakes/ muffins turned out very well and looked delicious. This time I baked, I made sure to mix together certain groups of ingredients separately before adding them altogether. The result was this:

Monkeys play golf, say what?

Hi everyone,

Yesterday my friend and I began our weekend adventures at Michael's arts and crafts store, and we wound up buying monkey chocolate lollipop molds. Newly inspired, we quickly drove home to start our culinary creation. In the mean time, we tried to conquer our nemesis: the red-velvet cupcake. Long story short, whenever Victoria (my friend) and I make red velvet cupcakes together, it's disastrous. This time we didn't have buttermilk, used a recipe that required oil, and put in baking powder rather than baking soda. As a result we had lumpy looking cupcakes. Note to all those baking red velvet cupcakes any time soon: do NOT use oil. However, we did turn our nasty looking cupcakes into delectable treats by making them part of a mini-golf course. This creation was for my dad's birthday that was last week.

Here's all of the results:

MIND-BLOWING Cupcake/Cake Designs

I was looking for cool cake designs for my Dad's birthday this weekend, and came across these.

This assortment includes golf-themed, monkeys, tea-pots, and some other sweet designs I came across. I am certainly inspired to use marzipan to create cool figures to decorate my dad's birthday cake/cupcakes this upcoming weekend.

Hope you enjoy:)