Baby Chicks cupcakes for Easter

sorry this one's so out of focus! :/

They were based on these:

So they didn't turn out how I wanted them too, but whatever. They're cute. Just not very photogenic.

The Cake:

Just normal vanilla cupcakes made from a Betty Crocker box

The top:

vanilla icing dyed yellow. After I iced the tops I smashed the cupcakes into a plate of tinted yellow coconut (the instructions are on the back of the coconut bag). Next Darrien made the faces. We left the candies at my place so we just used whatever he had around. Which turned out to be pearls and odd shaped sprinkles.

Frostings Cupcakes

So I finally got to stop by Frostings yesterday. And I have to say, it was amazing.

I had the red velvet, and it was totally delicious.

Darrien had German Chocolate. It was yummy too. I had some. :D

This is me with my red velvet cupcake.

Goodnight

Goodnight, baby. Sh*t quality

I want to sleep

All I want is sleep I just want to fall asleep in my bed with Seth in my arms and his voicei n my head I want to hear his voice on the phone I don't even want to make out what he's saying I want to stop crying ---- I want to ask him to call me and stop telling me that he only wants to talk on facebook it kills me every time I know it would be super duper selfish of me to ask him to get off and call I know how frustrating it is for him He's so stressed out right now I need to stop making it worse I just want to make him happy but I also want to sleep

Chocolate Chunk Suprise Cupcakes

Chocolate Chunk Surprise Cupcakes for Kevin

I made this cupcakes, but first, I wanted to show you my new mixer!

It's red

Recipe from the book What's New Cupcake?

Ingredients:

• 1 box of Duncan Hines Devil's Food Cake cake mix

1 cup of buttermilk, 1/2 cup of vegetable oil, 4 eggs (instead of whatever the back of the box says)

• 2 cans of Ducan Hines chocolate frosting (Normal peope only need one. I just use a lot of frosting)


• 24 Dove caramel filled milk chocolate I'mnotsurewhatthey'recalleds (or whatever small caramel filled chocolates you prefer, book suggest mini 3 muskateers)

Tools:

• cute cupcake liners that were on sale at Michael's (definitely a must)


• Freezer weight ziplock bags (must be freezer if you decide to use bags)


• normal cupcake baking materials? (Pans, oven, etc.)

Baking Instructions:

1. Mix Devil's food cake mix with 1 cup of buttermilk, 1/2 cup of oil, and 4 eggs. Yea, that's right. I snuck in another shot of my mixer!


2. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line your pan with your super cute cupcake liners! I like to pre-heatafter I mix because I always spend so long mixing taht the ovens preheated and ready to go before the batter is near the pan!


3. Fill your cupcake liners 1/2 to 2/3 of the way. Normally, you woud fill them 2/3 of the way, but there may not be room for it in this recipe C: **I like to fill a ziplock bag with the cake mix to fill the liners. It was hard the first time but once I got the hang of it it made my life so much easier!


4. Now for the "surprise." Take your caramel filled chocolate and place it in the center of your cupcake. I don't suggest pushing it all the way in. I did this and I had dimples in the middle of my cupcakes, and some where more like holes than dimples...


5. Bake according to directions. You're done baking!

Frosting Instructions:

The frosting was really simple, and felt totally relieving after all the back breaking hours I spent frosting cupcakes in the past month.

1. Fill a ziplock baggy with icing. I prefer to do one can per bag, but that's just me. Cut 1/4 to 1/2 inch of an opening.


2. Just squeeze straight on it and see what shape you get! I did not frost to the edges.

And you're done! Here's what I got:

Weight update 4/6/2011

Weight: 110.5 Time weighed: 5:07 pm What I've consumed:

• water to take my meds with (I know this has no calories)


• one cookie


• about 5 bites of leftover chicken pasta stuff (can't think of what it's called)


• 1 can of sunkist

So I've lost some weight. Really freaking out. I had half a pie for dinner last night, which led to me being sick to my stomach this morning when it came time for breakfast. I also left my lunch at home. I came home and tried to eat my pasta, but after I ate two pieces of broccoli (which were soggy and tasted funky because of being stuck in a box with bad pasta) and some tomato (which I just plain don't like) I gave up. I haven't had dinner yet though. Hopefully that will go better. Until then, I just have to eat like crazy. Wish me luck >.<

Food Diary?

I decided I'm going to keep track of my weight and what I've been eating every day, and maybe even mention what I've been doing as far as exercize goes. I'm not sure what to label it, but I'm starting it right after I post this...