Mara
Super_Ideal_Rock
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- Oct 30, 2002
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miss lorelei it's a lemon buttercream...really just confectioners sugar, butter, a touch of milk and lemon extract. i didn't have a lemon or else i would have also added real lemon juice and zest.
i love buying cupcakes elsewhere too, some places are affordable at like $2.50 a large cupcake...but some other places are like $45 for 24 minis...crazy!!!! for MINIS!! i made a pan of minis in 15 minutes the other night and with everything i already had in the pantry and fridge ! hehe.
oh and for those who are attempting minis, you only bake them just over slightly HALF the amount of time that you do large ones. so just be careful. my first batch when i started using the mini pan i didn't know that and they were hard as rocks. do the cake test of course before just assuming they are done but it's usually just slightly over 1/2 the cooking time you'd use for a large cupcake pan. aka baking large 20 minutes then bake mini pan 11-12.
another tip, TEST YOUR OVEN! i used to wonder why all our stuff was never done when it should be...well duh. i thought the oven as a little off as in 10 degrees. finally got an oven thermometer. our oven is FIFTY degrees off. yep that's 50. crazy, it took me a week of testing the oven to confirm but now if a recipe calls for 350 i put it to 400. no wonder broiling takes longer too!
anyhow, nothing new to add workout wise now that the cupcake lesson is over hehe. eating my lunch...smoked chicken breast and some of grandma's tomato rice with a mini wheat bagel and string cheese. hodgepodge for sure. greg's mom sent us a trough of brownies with nuts and choco chips so we will be eating those for the next WEEK...she sent FOUR pans of them. i have been trying to give some away and putting some in the fridge because seriously otherwise we'll consume them.
congrats to everyone who lost weight...yay!!! that's fabulous.
yay for gorgeous weather steph. we might get some rain here so it's alternating between sunny and gray.
skippy, i know we will be very excited about italy once we finally book. it would be great to not have to do first class and get an exit row or something but that seems like such a stroke of luck, better to just pay the extra miles for FC hehee. i am such a bad long-term fly-er so i need all the comfort i can get with something like this, i can barely take a 5-6 hour flight, much less anything like 2 legs to europe. and first class is SO exp, we were like who pays $7k for FC tickets? if we didn't have miles we'd probably stick with coach...i can think of better ways to spend $7k...hehe.
have a great afternoon all.
i love buying cupcakes elsewhere too, some places are affordable at like $2.50 a large cupcake...but some other places are like $45 for 24 minis...crazy!!!! for MINIS!! i made a pan of minis in 15 minutes the other night and with everything i already had in the pantry and fridge ! hehe.
oh and for those who are attempting minis, you only bake them just over slightly HALF the amount of time that you do large ones. so just be careful. my first batch when i started using the mini pan i didn't know that and they were hard as rocks. do the cake test of course before just assuming they are done but it's usually just slightly over 1/2 the cooking time you'd use for a large cupcake pan. aka baking large 20 minutes then bake mini pan 11-12.
another tip, TEST YOUR OVEN! i used to wonder why all our stuff was never done when it should be...well duh. i thought the oven as a little off as in 10 degrees. finally got an oven thermometer. our oven is FIFTY degrees off. yep that's 50. crazy, it took me a week of testing the oven to confirm but now if a recipe calls for 350 i put it to 400. no wonder broiling takes longer too!
anyhow, nothing new to add workout wise now that the cupcake lesson is over hehe. eating my lunch...smoked chicken breast and some of grandma's tomato rice with a mini wheat bagel and string cheese. hodgepodge for sure. greg's mom sent us a trough of brownies with nuts and choco chips so we will be eating those for the next WEEK...she sent FOUR pans of them. i have been trying to give some away and putting some in the fridge because seriously otherwise we'll consume them.
congrats to everyone who lost weight...yay!!! that's fabulous.
yay for gorgeous weather steph. we might get some rain here so it's alternating between sunny and gray.
skippy, i know we will be very excited about italy once we finally book. it would be great to not have to do first class and get an exit row or something but that seems like such a stroke of luck, better to just pay the extra miles for FC hehee. i am such a bad long-term fly-er so i need all the comfort i can get with something like this, i can barely take a 5-6 hour flight, much less anything like 2 legs to europe. and first class is SO exp, we were like who pays $7k for FC tickets? if we didn't have miles we'd probably stick with coach...i can think of better ways to spend $7k...hehe.
have a great afternoon all.