What I Love Wednesday.

I thought I would share what I am loving this Wednesday morning.

I love:

Seeing The Hobbit in 3D on Monday. I adore date nights with the boy. It is so much fun to go out in public and act silly.

My brother's rendition of how to wrap Christmas presents.

My company Christmas party date.

Putting together my best friend's "hostess basket." I got her a few things from downtown Petoskey. Cranberry wine, Mango Habenaro Salsa, and blue chips. Perfect items for my favorite hostess.

Getting reminders from lunch's fortune cookie.

 

Thanks to Pinterest... I will be making these the next 2 days for our company wide potluck.

 OR

What I love most?
We are about to be hit with a huge snowstorm.... I put a red dot on the map to show where I live.

It's going to be a very white Christmas! Bring it on. I am finally ready for some (or a lot) of snow.

 

What are you guys loving this Wednesday? I want to hear.

S'more Please.

As of lately, I have become known as the girl who brings cupcakes into work. I can't help that I like seeing my coworkers the boys happy. So due to the last batch being made strictly for artwork and dedicated to my beloved hockey team... I thought I would challenge myself with a recipe that requires homemade frosting and some serious skills. While sitting around the bonfire this past weekend, I got the idea to try to make a cupcake taste like a s'more. After a few minutes online, I quickly found recipes and ideas of other bloggers who had this genius idea... I don't know why I thought I was going to be the first person to think up this idea! Haha. So after going to the grocery store to pick up the ingredients, I cranked the volume up on my cooking/baking playlist {It doesn't get played nearly enough} to get going.

The basic ingredients... The inspiration.

So I wanted to create a graham cracker crust at the bottom of the cupcake, so I crushed the crackers with some chocolate shreds and pressed down to create a base. Put the cups in the oven for 5 minutes to bake, then poured the cupcake batter on top about 2/3 full before putting back into the oven.



These little cupcakes definitely gave me a fight to make. {Marshmallow fluff is very complicated/difficult to work with believe it or not!} The frosting didn't turn out how I envisioned but my taste-testers at home were in love. I find it very humorous that when making cupcakes, I don't eat any of them. I think its from the time spent making them that by the time they are done, I am thinking... "Okay time to get rid of them. Immediately." And nothing makes them disappear faster than bringing them into work as a "Make My Day Monday" surprise.

Side note: expect a baking/cooking playlist post later... because once that ran out, my brother put in a CD from early 2000's that had us busting out lyrics in the kitchen.

Dessert for Breakfast?

Since its officially game day of the sixth playoff game of the Red Wings vs. Sharks, I thought it would only be necessary to make cupcakes. I had just gotten off a 10 hour workday and needed a little pick-me up. So I stopped at the grocery store on the way home, grabbed a box of red velvet cupcake mix, red decorative frosting, and almost immediately ideas started flooding my brain. I wish I had a little bit more time to get extra creative with them and also not so frustrated. But after two hours, they were iced with frosting, decorated, and stored in to-go container. The guys at work {yes, I am the only girl in the engineering office} jumped on top of them at like 8am this morning. Nothing like dessert for breakfast!

Hopefully this will bring more than just a sugar high to all us Detroit fans… hopefully it will generate some luck too. We are going to need all the help we can get. It will be a tough game, but at least I did my part to show some Red Wings love today!