Alpha Mom: cupcakes

DOES THAT MEAN I AM HIS FAVORITE GRANDMA?

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:17:08 GMT

Here is a screenshot of an IM I had with Brett:

How much do I love that kid right now?!

MY NAME IS SHAE, AND I AM A CUP-AHOLIC

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:44:07 GMT

I think I need a 12 step program. Seriously. I cannot stop making cupcakes. It starts innocently enough, trying to make a really good cupcake. But then the challenge is gone. So I started to think (obsess, really) about making a filled cupcake. So I made not one, but FIVE different kinds! In the last 3 days. I cannot give them away fast enough. I gotta find a way to sell them so that I seem less crazy.

Friday was sour cream cake with lemon curd filling and vanilla buttercream frosting, and vanilla cake with Mexican chocolate pudding filling and chocolate buttercream frosting.

Saturday was vanilla cake with pineapple filling and vanilla whipped cream frosting AND fresh strawberry cake with strawberry whipped cream filling and strawberry cream cheese frosting.

Today I made chocolate with vanilla custard filling and chocolate whipped cream frosting.

See, I told you.

MY NEW PLAN OF ATTACK

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:57:51 GMT

All my friends love my cupcakes. I went from a using a boxed mix with cute decorations to using the Magnolia Bakery recipe with cute decorations. And I started making old school shortbread cookies with royal icing...also cute, of course. They are so addictive that I have been accused of putting crack in them. They are called crack-cakes and crack-ies now.

I want to be like 8 pounds lighter than I am today. I was there last summer, in all my bikini glory! But I have let the carbs creep back in, so the pounds have crept back in. I lowered my carbs again and even bought a treadmill. Too bad you have to actually use the treadmill not just buy it. (I tend to agree with my brother who says you should only run if bees are chasing you.) I am trying to make it a habit, but so far...that is a negative, Ghost Rider.

I am just going to bake a crapload of stuff and keep it on hand. Stash some in the back of my van, keep some at my house, maybe even leave some on a porch or two. My friends will have no choice but to eat the little carb-bombs, forcing them to gain the weight I wish I could lose without work. If all my friends were 8 pounds heavier, I might seem 8 pounds lighter by comparison...

MY NEW FAVORITE THING

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:22:05 GMT

I have been wanting one of these since before I knew they existed. Thanks to Robert and Mary and the Visa gift card they gave me for Christmas, I am the proud owner of a Cupcake Courier.

I realized how much I had talked it up when I took Makenzie's birthday cupcakes to school in it and the teacher told me she had heard how excited I was about it. Whatever. Believe the hype.

In case you were wondering, Brett Nordquist, this is what Kenzie's cupcakes looked like. They tasted even better!