I started rowing this summer, and my group “Team Crazypants” had our very first race today! My sister designed some awesome shirts for us and we had a blast rowing around Lake Union in the Tail of the Lake. After re-rigging the boats back at the boathouse, we all celebrated over some cake. I used a biscotti and Teddy Grahams to represent our opponents who are being tipped over by our wake!
This 4th of July I made berry cupcakes based on Martha Stewart’s recipe. I topped them off with fresh strawberry slices. These reminded me of simple blueberry muffins, but with a creamy marshmallow-like frosting.
I also wanted to capture the statue of liberty in cupcake form, which lead to making lemon meringue cupcakes from scratch to resemble the torch. I loosely based these on another Martha Stewart recipe, though I modified it slightly based on some other tasty looking recipes I found. The cupcakes were filled with lemon curd, topped with a swirl of delicious meringue, then toasted lightly with my new kitchen toy. I wrapped them in a paper crown decoration; although they looked a little cheesy, they tasted amazing!
Honestly, though, I just made these cupcakes to have an excuse to use another Bed Bath and Beyond 20% off coupon on a torch!
Today is Frank’s last day with the company… a bummer for all of us here in Seattle, but an excuse to do more baking!
We’ll all be getting together later today to celebrate and wish him farewell with a proper German themed send-off: German beers (for the German who hates beer), German Chocolate Cake (which actually isn’t of German origin), and pretzels (unfortunately, not the kind you’d get in Germany).
The cake took a while to make following a recipe online, but from the scraps I tasted it should be pretty good!
Happy Golden Birthday to John who turned 28 on the 28th! These “Golden Cupcakes” are a little interpretive since I didn’t know what to make: Pineapple Supreme cake in gold foil liners, topped with gold sugar and a gold Hershey’s Nugget.
This past month my lead was out on paternity leave. Facilities had taken down the half-door from our Taco Stand office prank, so we felt it should be repurposed. Joe’s office was transformed into “Crazy Joe’s Bait & Tackle Co.” complete with paperclip hooks and gummyworm bait! (pictures of the prank coming soon)
In keeping with the fishing theme, I put together these cupcakes using Goldfish crackers and pretzel sticks. I also tried out the two-tone frosting technique by putting both a light and dark shade of blue in the piping bag – it doesn’t show well in these photos, but made for a cool “water” effect.
