Pumpkin Cupcakes for the Halloween Partayyyy!

Current Mood: Sleepy but joyful
Current Song: Icona Pop-All Night

So since the mini pumpkin cupcakes with homemade cinnamon whipped cream were SUCH a huge hit at Dom's parents football party last Sunday, I am going to make even more for Allie's Halloween party tomorrow night!

I know I said this already, but they are LITERALLY pumpkin pie in cupcake form. This is how moist they are. It's unbelievable. This recipe is SUCH a freakin' keeper.

Anyways, we're going to Allie's Halloween party tomorrow night at her boyfriend's house and I offered to bring some deliciousness since EVERYONE likes bite size things and why not bring the most impeccable pumpkin flavored cupcakes?!

I will be making these tonight while the hubby is at his kickball double header.

Alone time-check

Some white wine-check

Some cereal for dinner-check

Why do I eat cereal for dinner you ask? Because this girl hates cooking but loves baking :)

Can't wait to party tomorrow night in our most awesomest costumes ever. 

Fun Fact: Do you know the three spices that make up ALLSPICE? You would think ALL spices, eh? It's actually nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves! How much of each you ask? Equal amounts. Voila! 

Cheers!

Punkin' Everythang

Current Mood: Monday Blues
Current Song: Travie McCoy/Jason Mraz-Rough Waters (obsessed with this song!)

MANIC MONDAY IN FULL EFFECT!

Monday's are always our super busiest day at the office; however, I've taken time away on this beautiful autumn day to tell you how amazing my pumpkin minis were yesterday!

Dom's parents had a Ravens/Squealers game day cookout yesterday (don't want to talk about our loss) and we all watched the game outside on two screens with a bunch of excellent food and some brews. Ever heard of Cinge?? You should try it. Cinnamon Tequila. End of story.

Dom made some AWESOME homemade cookies (his first time!!!) with the leftover spent grain from his beer making shenanigans. How creative he is--I would have never thought about reusing them! But after they get drained from the homemade beer, they really just go to waste. So he looked up some recipes online for what he could use them in.

He chose to make some chocolate cranberry cookies and pumpkin cinnamon chip cookies. The pumpkin ones were definitely my favorite of the two. They both turned out so good, so proud of you babe!!

We planned to just take them to the Ravens cookout since we were going camping over the weekend and I wouldn't really have had time to bake anything before we had to head over their house. However, our second night of camping got rained out at Rausch Creek so we decided to come home Saturday night. That meant I had time to bake some scrumptious mini pumpkin cupcakes with homemade cinnamon whipped cream. Talk about YUM.

These tasted like pumpkin pie in your mouth. No joke. Except I don't really like pumpkin pie so they were even better than a pie-act-alike! The whipped cream really made it seem like pie. And they were so moist to the touch it was incredible.

I used to hate that word--moist. Extremely hard to leave it out of a baker's vocab though, trust me!

Anyways, I plan to make some substitutions to this recipe and make it my very own. I definitely won't change the frosting though. The whipped cream was perfecto.

Fun Tip: Dom said that he wished I didn't have to put cupcake liners in the pans before making these so that he could just pop 'em in his mouth one after the other (they were that good). Fact--you can make them without papers! Just make sure you spray the pan VERY well before pouring the batter in. This will make them even more convenient for your guests! Avoids random wrappers laying around too from the kiddos :)

Fall favorite--try it out! Cheers!

My Red Velvet Seem to Be an All-Time-Fave!

Current Mood: Happy, happy, joy, joy! (Not really sure why)
Current Song: Armin Van Buuren-This is What it Feels Like

SO apparently, my red velvet cupcakes have been a huge hit lately and they are everyone's favorite! Well, at least in the Heath family!

Meg's bridal shower was last Sunday and she was SUPER surprised. It was so beautifully decorated at Peerce's that day. Had I brought my broken high heel cupcakes in, it would have ruined the beauty!

That's right...they all broke :(

Kelly had wanted me to make high heel red velvet cupcakes for the shower. This was SUCH a cute idea, but here is my tip for the week...and for baking life:

If you're baking/preparing something so so SO delicate, be sure to assemble it all once you arrive to the place that you will be serving your creations!!! I can't stress that enough after my horrible experience Sunday.

Thank GOODNESS I only made one dozen high heels and the other two dozen were just regular red velvet!

A quick recap of what happened to the high heels:

1. Liv buys the expensive cookies that are involved in making the high heel cupcakes. You need some pirouette cookies and some Milanos.
2. Liv assembles the super cute high heel cupcakes with diligence.
3. Liv decides not to use super glue to hold the pieces together (she thought the guests at the shower wouldn't think they tasted too good)
4. Liv attempts to move them onto trays for transportation and succeeds with this part!
5. Liv drives from Duluth Ave. to German Hill (.1 of a mile, if that)
6. Liv turns around briefly and notices that at least 5 are already broken
7. Liv arrives at Peerce's with one high heel standing, YES!!!
8. Liv leaves all of the heels in the car because she's pretty late as it is.

That's basically how it went folks. Oh well, next time I will DEFINITELY assemble the high heel cupcakes at their final destination. They were just so cute and I was so disappointed :(

Here is what they looked like before transportation! Thank goodness I got a photo before the storm

At least they had other cakes/cupcakes there! My red velvet were still a hit as always :) 

Cheers! 

She was so surprised!