Dessert 1-MC's Birthday Cupcakes

Yesterday I decided to make cupcakes for MC's birthday. I got the recipe from Amy Sedaris' cookbook for vanilla cupcakes. I made the batter and dyed it yellow. Why yellow you ask?--well it's one of MC's favorite colors. Why cupcakes you ask? I decided this yesterday (without telling anyone of course) that I was going to make desserts for Molly's birthday every year. Last year I made a white cake with raspberry filling between the layers and green frosting. The cake, although very good, basically leaned like the Tower of Pisa because it was so hot and humid that day that the frosting wouldn't stay on the cake and kept ripping parts of it off as I was frosting it.

Since I only have a 6 cup cupcake/muffin pan I decided to pour the batter out in the cupcake shells while I waited the 20 minutes for each group to bake.

I made homemade butter cream frosting and dyed it pink. Well, I was actually going for red, but lacked the amount red dye to make it happen. And once again pink is my signature color.

While the cupcakes and frosting were cooling I decided to take the rest of the frosting I had and dye that purple so I could add little purple dots to the cupcakes.

Finished product. They definitely turned out super cute. The actual cupcakes themselves weren't as moist as I like them. Next time I'll take them out of the oven a little sooner. I think everyone enjoyed them...

Plus they go great with PBR right??? We had a great night bowling and having fun. So what if white sand beaches entice me to go swimming in the mighty Mississippi. It was the result of the champagne I tell you. The night ended around 4am. What a party. Miss MC had a real blast.

Pink is my signature color...

Okay so maybe it's not my favorite color, but it seems to be coming up everywhere in my garden. Sparklegirl (my neighbor) would definitely not approve (wink wink). Although she has expressed the need to get rid of some cone flowers in her garden that are just to pink for her and I am ready to accept that wonderful gift. I can always squeeze a new plant into my garden.

Last night Tim and I started planning our trip to Yellow Stone National Park in late August. We'll be staying one night in around Mt. Rushmore on the way there and then we'll stay in Yellow Stone for 4 nights and come home. The reservation system is pretty bad so Tim has to call today to make sure there are spots open for us before we request any time off. We're pretty excited though. It will be over our first anniversary. For some reason (I don't know if it's just me) I thought you could swim in the hot springs. Tim kept laughing at me last night because I was determined to find something that says that you can. Alas, I found nothing but I still want to go. I really had no idea how big the park is. We're going to have our hands full not being too busy. I can't wait to go....

Today I go back to the doctor for a check up. It will be great to see my doctor again. He's sucha nice guy. We have dinner with the Gacek clan at 6 and a full weekend ahead of us. Oh and by the way Pirate Master last night was a tense one. Poor Sean that's what you get for backstabbing people. I think Jay's going to win the whole thing.