Category: personal
UPDATE: If you copied the cupcake recipe down before March 9, 2012, please adjust your recipe to include 1 cup of water. I forgot to add that important ingredient to the list! Oops.
My baby had a birthday party this past weekend. I normally buy pretty cupcakes for the kids’ birthday parties… or whenever strikes my fancy. However, with my addiction use of Pinterest, I was feeling extra crafty this year and wanted to give it a try myself. Which is sort of a HUGE leap for me as I am NOT a baker. Crescent rolls are always a little black on the bottom in this house.
I’m quite proud of my non-baking self. Were they perfect? Nope. Did my baby love his cupcakes? Yep. 
Yeah, that’s right. I used BOX mixes… but they didn’t taste like box mixes! Recipe below. 
And just because this is how we roll in the Fowler family… here are 2/3 of my brood being vampires with their ticket prize loot.
Cupcake Recipe
- Box mix of choice
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup water
Mix all ingredients on low speed for 1 minute. Then mix on high speed for 1 minute. Fill liners (I used an ice cream scoop) and bake for 20 minutes.
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Buttercream Frosting
- 2 sticks of butter softened
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 bag powdered sugar (2 lbs)
- 5 tbsp heavy cream
Cream butter. Add in vanilla. Add 1.5 cups powdered sugar beat well. Add in 1 tbsp heavy cream and beat. Alternate adding powdered sugar and heavy cream until all mixed in. Then whip it all for 5 minutes.
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LINKS: Piping frosting tutorial, Edible picture topper and Lollipop style paper cutouts.
Just for fun this year, I decided to take on another project at the start of the new year. One that didn’t have a lot of rules as I’m not such a great rule follower. This is my own personal project and I didn’t want to make it feel like a chore. Sooo… I went with food. A year of food. All kinds of food… drinks, raw food, cooked food, play food, simply food. And yes… we’re only 2 full months into the new year and I’m already slacking! If you’d like to see previous food project images, please go HERE.
Anyway, this is my most recent photo for this project. This is Olive Tapenade; The Old Spaghetti Factory style. My hubs and I visited The Old Spaghetti Factory this past weekend and had their olive tapenade. I was hooked! I love olives and knew I had to find a copycat recipe stat. I found the perfect recipe and now have a bowlful of this yummy goodness in my fridge!
Ingredients:
- 1 jar pitted kalamata olives (1 1/2 cups)
- 2 cans pitted medium black olives (2 1/2 cups)
- 1/4 cup capers
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- 1/2 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Directions:
Toss all ingredients in a food processor and pulse till smooth.
Serve with toasted fancy bread, crackers, pretzel rods or just eat with a spoon. Yeah, it’s that good!
I’m not sure about how long it’s good covered in the fridge, so use your own judgement there. However, I think it should be good for a looooong time. And it makes a loooooot.
Enjoy!!
I just signed up for a formspring questionnaire. That’s a cool little page where you can ask me a question – any question you’d like – and I’ll answer it directly on that page. Should be fun!
Anyway, to get to my formspring questionnaire page, please visit at http://www.formspring.me/marindafowler.
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Njam njam send me some!