Happy Mother's Day!!

Today was an experiment of some kind. I was sent this amazing cake by my wicked good friend (and fellow food lover) Barb. She found it on an amazing blog called I am baker. It's an amazing site, and I urge you to head on over and check it out. Anyhoos, Barb sends me this cake late friday night and I didn't waste any time in making it!! There's an awesome tutorial on how to make it, and the roses, but it doesn't prepare you for how awesome it tastes!! It's absolutely yummy!!! Try it out!!!

Happy Mother's Day everyone!!!

Update!

Omigosh, it's been an awful long time since I updated this!! I seriously need to unbusy myself sometimes! Anyhoos, I have a few pics of things that I've done in the last little while so let's get started!

I made these cupcakes at Halloween (this is how far I'm behind!) to bring to work. They were chocolate fudge cupcakes, with chocolate ganache frosting. The spiderwebs are white chocolate and the spiders are m&m's (yep, black ones!) with milk chocolate legs. They were uber yummy!!

I had these yummy froggies for my birthday!! They were scrumptious! I had chocolate fudge and vanilla ones, either way with vanilla buttercream icing on top with various candies to make the faces. I had a lot of fun making these guys!

Ahh. Broccoli. Doesn't it look like it has it's rightful place on top of that cupcake? Ha! This was a special birthday cupcake I made for one of the girls at work. When I asked her what kind of cupcakes she wanted, she said broccoli. So, I set about doing just that! The cupcakes are my good ol chocolate fudge, with chocolate mousse inside, chocolate fudge buttercream on top with silver dragees. That broccoli is actually a Tootsie roll! You can melt them slightly so you can form them, and the ends are coloured buttercream with round sprinkles. For your sanity, do not try and find only green sprinkles around Christmas time. You will not find them. Take my word for it!! Those green ones make their appearance due to carefully being picked out of a giant bag of white, green and red sprinkles. It's definitely a hair puller, I tell ya.

Ok. I'll tell you a little secret. I am in love with Whoopie pies. That's right. Whoopie pies. People in Winnipeg, most often give you a funny look when you tell them you are making Whoopie pies. I honestly don't care. They are amazing. And yes, I used a box mix. I know!! I cheated!!! You can only get them in the US, and they make different ones for different holidays. Most often you can find them at Walmart, but I've found them at Target as well. Most grocery stores will carry them I'm sure. The concept is super simple. The cake bit is Devil's food cake and they provide you with awesome little packets of icing so you can fill up the in between, and then you drag the Whoopie pie around a bowl of sprinkles! Voila!! Yummy delicious goodness. If you ever find yourself in the baking aisle at a US Walmart, you MUST buy some. You won't regret it. I promise!!

Best. Brownies. Ever. I found this amazing recipe that combines brownies and cheesecake. OMG. To die for. Enough said. :)

I kind of went on a rampage for Valentine's day. I made just a few strawberry, and then continued with red velvet cupcakes. They all got chocolate mousse inside them, and chocolate fudge buttercream on top.

On a side note, I have really, REALLY gotten into crepes lately. They are snazztastic. Super easy to make, and super quick to make as well! You can roll them up with jam, or cottage cheese, drop some maple syrup, molasses, anything you want on them really! It's my go to snack at the moment. You can make them in small doses or make a whole bunch and save them in the fridge!

These fun cupcakes were Aryanna's birthday cupcakes. She picked out what she wanted (as she does every year), but she always picks stuff that takes forever! :) These time consuming kitties took a whole lot of my sanity. We had some of the chocolate fudge and vanilla varieties. All of them were covered in vanilla buttercream (some had chocolate fudge instead), and various candies to form the faces. The fishbones are white chocolate. They were a hit!

These, by far, are the yummiest of my cupcake adventures. They are Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes. They honest to goodness have peanut butter cups at the bottom of the cupcake. A moist chocolate cupcakes is on top of that, and all THAT is topped with peanut butter buttercream icing! They are pretty fantastic. They became a hit pretty quickly around my house! Finally, that is the end of my updating. I promise, I will be baking more once things have calmed down around here. I have a few things up my sleeve, so watch for it!