Well last week was Lizzy's birthday. I have been so busy lately that this year it snuck up on me. Before I knew it it was here. Her teacher asked the night before her big day if I was going to do anything at school for her. I had been think about it and the moment he asked I decided to make cupcakes.
You see I haven't been baking lately. As a matter of fact it's been a couple of years since the baking bug has hit me. I know many of you are asking how I win the pie contest on Harvest Sunday every year at church well my secret is that that my Kit Kat pie only takes 5 minutes to make and I never even turn on the oven.
So back to last week. I ran home after dropping the kids off at school, turned on the oven and went in to a baking frenzy. Thank goodness I just reorganized the kitchen and finding everything was a breeze. I don't know about you but when I make cupcakes I hate pouring the mix into the cups liners. I seem to always get the mix everywhere. Well since I had the baking box out I saw my hubby's icing bags. I came up with a great idea. I put the cake mix in the bag like it was icing. I cut the tip and I had the easiest time filling the liners!
Once the cupcakes were done baking and cooled I used another icing bag to do the tops. I didn't use a tip or anything. I started out just swirling the icing and then started making something like flower petal. When I was finished it still looked plain. I remembered the food coloring spray that I bought last year and I decided to "spray paint" half pink and the other half purple. They were still to plain so I decided to use runts as the middle of the flower. The pink ones had orange runts while the purple ones had the cherry.. I think they came out really nice for such a fast last minute treat.
Guess what happened after that? I now have the baking bug! I know this isn't going to be good for my diet!
