I made these cakelettes for Duncan's (or should I say DRUNCAN'S) 21st birthday. I actually cheated and used a box mix and jazzed it up with peppermint extract and mini chocolate chips. I bake them in a pan with square cups. I cheated again and used pre-made frosting but seriously I can never be as good as Pillsbury chocolate fudge frosting. Added a junior mint and some more mini chocolate chips to the top and tada!

Apparently it is cupcake week on the Martha Stewart show next week.

AWESOME.

Jayna's baby shower was yesterday and she had me make her Mint Chocolate Chip cupcakes. The cupcake recipe was from Crazy About Cupcakes and I thought they were a TAD too dry - some more milk would have fixed that. The frosting recipe was from 500 Cupcakes.

ALSO, the recipe only made 16 (one of which I tested at home). Now the recipes don't TELL you how much they make and the last recipe I made out of this book made TWO DOZEN so I was expecting this recipe too also. So mot having enough was irritating.

So at one point in time, Alysha told me she wanted black licorice cupcakes. GROSS. But since it was her birthday yesterday I thought it only apporpiate to make some kind of gross cupcake for her. Whilst making them the dough ended up looking like I was mixing cement, mmmm.

After baking these grey cupcakes, the delicious golden color that most cupcakes get made them GREEN!

Instead of making a licorice frosting (since the cupcakes called for FOUR TABLESPOON of anise, and I only had 3) I made vanilla and decorated with Good and Plenties.


Both the frosting and the cupcakes were homemade and the recipes are in the book Crazy About Cupcakes.

Yesterday was Area 51 themed game night. I made solar system cupcakes.
Mercury was suppose to be grey but it turned out white because my "silver" dusting sugar wasn't very silver with a white background.
Venus was white frosting with brown frosting dye swirled in it to make it's clouds.
Earth was blue frosting with green jimmies laid out on it to look like North and South America.
Mars was red sugar.
The asteroid belt was a nerds rope.
Jupiter was white frosting with chocolate jimmies to make it's clouds and a red jellybean eye.
Saturn had licorice rings and some sprinkles for colors.
Uranus was white frosting with blue jimmies.
Neptune was blue frosting with clear shimmer sprinkles.
Pluto was black with a big red X through it.
The moon was white and black with black licorice craters.
Then I had two UFOs and some stars.

I used boxed cake mix and frosting to save time.<

Every time I have made a baking or cooking journal, it NEVER lasts. I think it's because no one is reading it at all. If just one person looks at this (which shouldn't be a probably because all my friends have livejournals) then it will make more of an incentive to write in it.

Anyways, my name is Rachel. If I had enough time, money and people to eat them then I would make cupcakes every day of my life. But I don't. But what I do make I want to keep track of/show off. Naturally.