Foolish Morsel

I made two different kinds for my friend’s daughter’s birthday party: Chocolate with chocolate pudding filling, and cream cheese frosting, and, yellow cake with cheesecake flavored pudding filling with cream cheese frosting…I made minis that weren’t filled, but just as yummy, only smaller!  ; )

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Well, you don’t have to, these are cuppies, after all!  Today Owen had his birthday party at Brunswick Zone. It’s a busy place, lots of fun, but not a good place to wield a sharp knife, so cuppies and dibs (yeah, those lil’ ice cream thingies with magic shell on ‘em) are the best choice for a six year old’s birthday! I made Star Wars vanilla cupcakes with cheesecake flavored pudding for the kids (Owen’s Mace Windu was a little too big to stand on his Jumbo cupcake), and banana cupcakes for the grown ups.  Both had cream cheese icing and the banana had pecans as well…Actually, I modified the recipe from my friend Sandi (a few posts ago) for cupcakes: replace the half and half with buttermilk, take the temp down to 350, for a hair under 20 minutes, and fill the cups HALF WAY, no more, about 10 minutes in they rise, pretty high!  I used the candy cups for them, but you can use a cupcake pan as well…There were also vanilla minis with cream cheese icing just in case the normal size was too much!  I get to make another cake on Tuesday, for Owen’s actually birthday..Yummy!

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Remember a few posts ago I mentioned I couldn’t pick blueberries as I was in class?  It was one just like this, and I passed!! 95%…Now I’m a food safety manager person, certified by the faboo State of Illinois!  Ta Da!  My kitchen is squeaky clean, and Kevin is getting aggravated with me because I am using dishes and utensils for every little thing (can’t use the same spatula for cooked meat that ya did for raw, ya know)!  And offering a little too much info regarding parasites, viruses and bacteria…(well, that was my favorite part of the class)…But at least everyone knows, that they won’t get sick from my cuppies (about 30% of food poisoning is from your own house)! Yum! ; )

My good friend Sandi gave me this recipe, after I begged for it, and that was after she brought us some…Oh my gawd, that’s all I can say. Deceptively simple, and use the “ripest” bananas you can get a hold of, like already getting mushy, you won’t be disappointed…If you like sweeter than sweet, and more dense than dense can be, you will skip meals to eat more of it… >: )

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recipe ©sandi cortellassi

Next week, it’s all about cuppies on Martha..hmmm, we’ll see what she’s got!  ; ) The cookies have been working out well anyway!  Owen’s put in his cupcake order for his birthday…STAR WARS, what else, right? Vanilla with cheesecake flavored pudding middles…I don’t know if it will taste good, but I trust Owen’s instincts, he’s usually right about these things!  Buttercream frosting for sure…But I’ve got a lot of SW chocolate heads to make!

Owen and I made these Giant Sugar Cookies last week…They really are giant, and yummy!

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Today is Liam’s Birthday, and these are his cuppies!  He was surprisingly decisive as to what he wanted when he and big brother Owen were picking out their wrappers and whatnot. Liam loves polka dots, wonder who he gets that from?  And sprinkles! I have a lot of work on as of late (as in super late nights! I am shattered…zzzz…) so I didn’t have time to make the lil’ chocolate treasures, I did however make some toppers, in the shape of twinkly little stars (they sparkle)! I am so proud of how hard he’s worked to try to function in our world, he is my star!  He actually chose vanilla cupcakes, and I made an Italian meringue buttercream frosting that I’m also using as a filling.  I added a raspberry purée that I made, just to try something new (can’t be chocolate all the time, can it?) using a Wolfgang Puck recipe (easy, just time consuming)…The taste is tremendously brilliant!!…Happy Birthday sweetheart, we all love you!

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Perfect!  Not a seed in sight!  ; )

Nope!

But my hands are!  My friend dropped off all these blueberries she’d picked for me (I was in class, more on that later)!  Notice the size of the bag next to the mixer!  Pancakes and handpies…The rest of the pix speak for themselves…My mum says my little men are never going to leave home if I keep feeding them like this! That’s alright….for now!  ; )

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If it sits still too long, then it gets frosted and sprinkled!  My waffle cones from last night…

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I put chocolate inside the bottom so the ice cream doesn’t drip…

Then chocolate and sprinkles on the outside!

And, look at this strawberry!  I had to “add” a face!

You can see the whole post on my Gee That’s Swell, but here are the pix!