So this morning we woke up early and took little Emo to the vet like I said earlier. After the doctor looked at him and the nurse violated him by taking his temperature they came to the conclusion that he has a concussion. They said the head injury would be from something like him getting hit by a car. Yea, that would be feasible if he were an outside cat but he isn’t. He was inside, in the kitchen. The vet said that the injury to his head wouldn’t happen from getting ran over by a wheelchair or even falling onto his head from the top of the refrigerator. We are quite puzzled what the heck happened to him though. Of course no one was in the kitchen when it happened and there was nothing around him which would hurt him. The vet gave him some antibiotics for the slight fever he was running and said that he would be fine. His eye might not go back to normal but more than likely will. Right now he’s doing a lot of sleeping in Jamie’s chair with Jamie in it. Thankfully it wasn’t something worse but it is just puzzling how this happened.
After we went to the vet, we went to the ER to take Shaina. Turns out she has pink eye. Lovely, right? It’s a Monday! Never dull! When we got home I decided that I was going to make cupcakes. I ended up making a French Toast cupcake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Click the cupcake to read about it!
Check out these cupcakes at FrostedFantasie!
Today was very successful! It is cupcake baking day. I swear it feels like the days are further and further apart from Wednesdays. I just really look forward to baking cupcakes! I got another recipe off of How To Eat A Cupcake who got it from Cupcakes Galore. I really need to get some cupcake books of my own dang it! I have a whole list of stuff I want for Christmas this year!
These weren’t like the usual throw all the ingredients in and all that. I was a little unsure if I was doing it right but the cupcakes came out beautiful right from the oven. Just look at them:
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I meant to post about these sooner but I didn’t get the pictures off of the camera until last night! By then it was too late to post and I went to bed.
Anyway, I decided to try a recipe for Cookies ‘n Cream cupcakes that I found on How To Eat A Cupcake which she got from the book Crazy About Cupcakes. These came out delicious and are a keeper recipe for sure!
I took some step by step (sort of) pictures too. Here is the batter before adding the cookies into it. You were supposed to leave it a bit flour-y still:
My bag of crunched oreo’s:
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When we went to the store yesterday I got eggs so I could bake. And for some reason I like to bake in the hottest part of the day. Go figure. When I began getting everything ready to do my thing I was sweating like a pig! I figured it was going to be too hot and the frosting was going to poop out and not turn out well or anything really. I was pretty pessimistic about the whole baking time because of what happened last time. I was like the baking destroyer in that kitchen. Revisiting the scene of the crime where cupcakes went horribly wrong is never easy.
I decided to try the Hershey “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate cake recipe that is on the back of the Hershey baking Cocoa mix. I mixed the dry ingredients together and was pretty happen about how awesome it was looking. Then I put all the rest in and mixed it up. On the back of the cocoa mix it does not say the batter will be thin. So I panicked! Oh boy I screwed this up again! Maybe I’m not cut out for this baking thing after all. I put more flour in just to see if I could thicken it up. Nothing. So I figured I’ll just throw it in the oven and see what happens. If it doesn’t turn out then I can’t do anything. Turns out the batter is supposed to be thin. I read it on their website while writing it down. Hey thanks Hershey for giving me a panic attack and not putting it on your container. Well, they can out fabulously! They were gorgeous. They rose beautifully, were super moist and fluffy. Best cupcakes I think.
On to the hard part…frosting. Ugh. I hate this because it hasn’t turned out how I wanted the last couple of times I’ve tried to make frosting from scratch. This time I have the shortening and even real butter. I was taking no chances with it! I wanted the ingredients 100%! I creamed the butter and shortening and slowly added the powdered sugar. Big smile on my face because it was turning out good! Imagine that! I thought adding the milk and vanilla would surely mess things up but it didn’t! It turned out great! It was soft but not runny and I was able to pipe with it! Beautiful! I used my colors and made the icing royal blue which was just stunning on the chocolate cupcakes.
So, of course, let’s get to the pictures!! I did my regular swirl with the frosting and then I tried something new with it. Which do you think looks better?
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