My Life as of lately and Halloween Special

It has been awhile since I have been on and a lot has been happening since then!!!
First off The big news is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My fiance and I are having a baby :) We are so excited for this little blessing in our lives. I'm about 3months along now and loving it!!
Here is our baby's first ultrasound it was such a realistic shock to see the lil bean inside me I LOVED it! And the look on my fiance's face when it popped up on the screen was priceless I cried a little!!

So thats my big news :) I am also running a little Halloween special on my PoPs.
One dozen PoPs arranged in a Halloween arrangement for $15.00!! Great deal!!
Please order via the link to the right side of this blog page:)
Thanks for reading and i will post more soon!!

National Smore's Day

Well Yesterday was national smore's day :)
YUM such a great day!!
I decided to create a different treat that
still incorporated s'mores
and this is what I came up with...
S'mores cupcakes!!!

This is a dark bittersweet choc cupcake
with crushed graham cracker in the cupcake
coated with choc ganache and topped with a
whipped marshmallow meringue and garnished
with some more crushed graham crackers!!
The best part of these is that they are just
as messy oooey gooey as the real smores.
That was half the fun of watching all of my
co workers eat these :0

Well I hope you all celebrated national smores day with an ooey gooey sticky treat if you didn't Shame Shame on you. You have to take advantage of these silly little holidays that give us an excuse to eat some yummy fatty treats right???

Heaven in the form of a cupcake

My addiction to cupcakes is still continuing.
I swear I dream about cupcakes at night and
they are all I think about during the day.
So of course I whipped out the handy dandy
kitchen aid. He is my right hand man.
I love him.
I decided to go with an old fashioned favorite.
.Vanilla.
When my soon to be brother in law said throw some raspberries in.
I have to say his idea was excellent. These
cupcakes came out heavenly. :)

And I decided to put some melted chocolate in the buttercream
and it made it even more heavenly when I topped these
badboys with this frosting. . YUMMY im drooling just
thinking about it.

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Have a fantastic evening I know I will when I savor my cupcake tonight :) ha

Cupcakes

It was my sweet little nephews 6th birthday this Saturday so I thought I would whip him up some cupcakes in coordinating colors to his iron man themed birthday!! (plus I have been itching to have a reason to bake up some cupcakes) I visited a local store here that just opened its doors. A cupcake shop!! I wasn't too impressed but my wheels got to turning about cupcakes after that...
Here they are, they were a hit :)

Dutch chocolatey goodness is what I like to call these!!

Well just a short post for now

ta ta ta will have more posts later!! I have a big order of scooby doo pops this week... they will be fun to show off :)

Whoopie Diaster... oops I mean whoopie pies and my sunday

So first off I would just like to say that I have been Loving confessions of a cookbook queen's blog. I love it because I am her ha. . . I would rather eat some sour patch kids for dinner than eat real food, I absolutely would rather sit in a big shirt from my fiance's side of the dresser and sweats and watch my TV shows than socialize and I love baking yummy treats ;)

Anyways I haven't really blogged lately because I haven't had time to bake ughhhh!
So I had yesterday off and I was of course sitting on the couch relaxing with my fiance, looking up recipes I would love to try!! I kept looking at whoopie pies and I guess my fiance could tell I was just ITCHING to try some so we made our trip to walmart to get my whoopie supplies and then it was on like donkey kong.
well it could of turned out better :) but hey in my defense it was my FIRST TIME EVER DOING THESE!!

so I didn't know they would spread out this much , it did get better from here but i forgot to take pictures... they cake parts of them were delish BUT the recipe I used for the filling called for 1 1/4 cups shortning YUCK I just can't even stomach the whoopies now with the texture of the filling. . . BUt I will conquer these one day!


But I did manage to whip up these scrumtious vanilla bean cupcakes!!

Oh and I forgot to tell you about the best part of the baking experience I (yet again) set the oven on fire :) oops I forgot that the other day when I was playing betty crocker making homemade pot pies(to die for homemade pot pies I mean crave these bad boys good yumm) I forgot to clean up the spills in the bottom from when they boiled over a tincy bit, so when I preheated the oven my fiance asked why the oven was smoking and WASN'T the least bit surprised to find a fire in the oven lol! (how sad that it doesn't even phase him anymore when flames occur in the kitchen while im in there)

OH I FORGOT THE TOPPING ON THE CAKE TO THIS WONDERFUL SUNDAY...
for the past couple of months we have been awakened many times during the night by loud thumping up on the roof, many times during the night my lovely wonderful fiance has ran around the house in boxers with his gun trying to figure out what in the heck the noise is (it literally sounds like a boogie monster up on our roof walking around) so after hearing it over and over at night we came to the conclusions birds must be getting up under the eaves. . .
UNTIL last night we walked out on our porch to look at our new solar lights we put all around and we look up and something (BIG) scampered under the eave and then growled at us... UGH (at this point i was yelling at my brother in law in the house to get a flashlight and A GUN) i wasn't about to deal with getting attacked in my own yard at 10pm
So the conclusion.. its not a bird... its not a plane ... its a freaking RACOON... Seriously I think this would be a good time to say FML...

The best part is when we purchased our house(about a yr ago) we noticed we couldn't find the opening to the attic ANYWHERE ... so were assuming that its hidden under our drop down ceiling in one of the bedrooms(that the dumbA** homeowners who redid this house put in) So now as I am writing my blog I am waiting here for a call from my beloved fiance to tell me when the exterminator will be here. UGH Good luck to him trying to find the opening to the attic ...

Have a wonderful day I know I will

hahahah

Summer time bakin~

So I need to vent my anger! My dad text me yesterday and asked if I had read the paper and if I hadn't he had an article he wanted me to read. So I went to his house to read this article about CAKE POPS. Now before I get into why im mad let me just say that I understand that bakerella was the first person to start the cake pop crave and I do realize that there are others out there that are making cake pops into small businesses like myself. "I do know I am not the only person to know how to make these in the world"
but in the article in the paper to the left side it had listed people who have started businesses with cake pops in the local area then off to the right side it had a detailed step by step process on how to make cake pops. This irritated me because here they are listing people who are trying to make ends meet starting a business with these then they give the community the recipe on how to do it. CONTRADICTING if i say so myself!
Oh well life goes on and Im going to keep on doing what i do:) just had to get that off my chest.

So today I woke up and decided that since summer is TRYING to be here I wanted to do some baking that involved a summery taste to it. I baked up some very delicious Lemon PoppySeed Cupcakes with a light lemon frosting!!
These are one of my favorite cupcakes they have such a light airy taste to them and they ALWAYS hit the spot;)

YUMMY...

My lastest Obsession

Ever since I as old enough to sit up on the counter top by myself I have been baking with my mother! I have pictures of me up there helping and I could barely even talk, so lets just say its been in my blood for a while!!
I have grown up with the tradition that every Holiday we make sugar cookies in the shapes that coordinate with the HOliday and then decorate them!!
Now that I live with my soon to be hubby he constantly asks me why are you making cookies again haha)
But lately I have wanted to perfect my decorating, so I have been researching and researching and watching tutorials!!I found one blog that I have just been loving, and it inspired me to bake some cookies.
I have been at my other job a lot the past couple of weeks so I don't have as much time as would like to make cookies but I just wanted to share a couple of pictures of the cookies I did with some new decoration techniques I learned!!

This one is my favorite, im not perfect by any means yet but practice makes perfect right!!!