tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22394609486632789622024-03-11T23:50:54.719-05:00Clutzy CookingMostly Simple, Sometimes Geeky, Always Clumsy- CookingMeg Lubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14327570762835056301noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239460948663278962.post-25155001512437203232014-08-23T18:35:00.000-05:002014-08-23T18:35:35.864-05:00Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I outlined in <a href="http://clutzylife.blogspot.com/2014/08/hello-againthe-blogger-sin.html" target="_blank">this post</a>, I have been away for too long and am extremely sorry about it. Back to the deliciousness! Ahem. My baby sister left for college today. She's truly truly amazing and beginning her sophmore year. School for her is about 2 hours from me so, way less hang out time during the school year as opposed to the breaks which is always hard to handle. Luckily, 2 hours is a great weekend road trip and breaks are frequent and fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In any case, I had grand intentions to make her these muffins in time but I didn't make the deadline what with the other happenings. They are a favorite of hers and she is a favorite of mine so, looks like I will be making a care package! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I previously posted this recipe <a href="http://clutzycooking.blogspot.com/2010/03/green-beer-day-treats-cinnamon-sugar.html" target="_blank">here, but that was for green beer day</a> which means I dyed the muffins themselves green. Here you can see them in their true form, a nice white crumb, a thick cinnamon sugar crunch on the outside.</span></div>
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Meg Lubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14327570762835056301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239460948663278962.post-36354246768028556812014-05-27T13:00:00.000-05:002014-05-27T13:00:01.645-05:00Busy Baked Oatmeal Cups: Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Protein Packed, and Easy! Working gal's dream...Hello again! Been a bit too long between posts according to my calendar. I've missed you all. Things have once again just taken my life by storm. Anyone else ever feel like they are moving in fast forward? I have realized that unless I get myself extremely set up for the week, everything will pile up and get out of hand, ha. There's a lot of food prep to make sure meals happen, weekend cooking and baking to make sure we have food for the work week, and power purges of cleaning in order to make sure we don't live like dusty hoarders until the next weekend rolls around.<br />
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This weekend we had company so, none of those things happened. Last weekend too, ha. We in general have way too many amazing friend and family members- all we ever want to do is goof off with them! As I said, in order to make SURE a lot of other things happen, I rely heavily on meal prep to make dinners and breakfasts happen. Otherwise we end up eating out or grabbing Starbucks on our way to work. One of the super easy as well as healthy and protein packed ways I have found to make life easier is this recipe: baked oatmeal cups. Like muffins but full of health, not a bajillion calories.<br />
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Here's the deal with these guys: they take 5 mins to make in a bowl and 30 mins to bake in your oven. They are amazing. They are healthy and delicious and flexible to add ins (like CHOCOLATE, as seen here) and all kinds of nuts and dried fruit options. </div>
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Pictured in this post are pumpkin baked oatmeal cups with walnuts and chocolate chips. Currently made in my kitchen are banana baked oatmeal cups with almonds.</div>
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The power is yours, guys. Be as healthy or unhealthy as you like with these while knowing the base is solidly good for you. </div>
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This recipe has changed my life and will hopefully help you with your mornings. I *try* to make ours on Sunday so that we have them for the work week while running out the door and then Saturday we can polish them off before a fresh batch on Sunday (each batch makes about 12 muffins).</div>
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Originally found the recipe here at <a href="http://greenlitebites.com/2009/03/07/banana-oatmeal-cups-with-chocolate-chips/" target="_blank">Green Lite Bites</a>. Her blog is awesome, especially if you are like me and always looking for ways to get more real food into your diet in a quick, routine manner.</div>
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-1 can pumpkin (or 3 mashed bananas, or 1 cup applesauce depending on the flavor you'd like)</div>
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-1 cup almond milk (Soy or any milk on hand also work)</div>
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-2 eggs</div>
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-3 cups Old Fashion or Rolled Oats</div>
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Let the oatmeal mixture sit for a moment while you spray your muffin tin with non stick cooking spray. If you want to do cupcake liners, they also work. You'll still want to spray them or they stick to the baked oatmeal.</div>
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Now that your oatmeal mixture has rested for a moment and your tin is good to go, stir in your mix-ins! For example, a sprinkle of chocolate chips, 3 tbsp walnuts. Anything you'd like in your oatmeal. When I make pumpkin and apple baked oatmeal, this is when I like to add some cinnamon. Yummmm!</div>
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Divide your batter up into your muffin cups. Usually 12-15 cups, all just about filled. Bake for 20-30 mins, when the edges are starting to brown and they aren't jiggling around. Let them cool 5 mins and you'll have some easily grabbable baked oatmeal cups. Almost like a denser, healthier muffin.</div>
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I hope this recipe helps you guys out too! As we had company, I didn't make any this weekend so tonight will be a fresh batch. I am thinking apple cinnamon with walnuts. Thoughts?</div>
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Hope your holiday weekends were relaxing and your workday back wasn't TOO rough so far!</div>
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Meg Lubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14327570762835056301noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239460948663278962.post-10980763604341296302014-05-07T12:00:00.000-05:002014-05-08T11:58:24.780-05:00The Best Banana Bread Recipe<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Are we going to eat these disgusting bananas or are we saving them as some kind of experiment?" asks Esquire in disgust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honestly, how many times do you have to tell men "when bananas go black, I make you delicious baked goods" before they remember to stop complaining about the yellow-to-black-banana process happening on the counter? Esquire always seems to be genuinely confused as to why I am not throwing away rotten fruit and then genuinely happy to hear that Banana Bread/Oatmeal Cups/Cookies/Cream Pie is in his future. My dad has done the same thing to my mom for as long as I can remember. "Is there a reason we are keeping these shriveled bananas?" Yes, guys. This isn't news. This is what you do with bananas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway- after assuring my confused law husband that I was keeping them for a very delicious purpose, I whipped up some banana bread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My family's banana bread to be exact. Arguably the best banana bread recipe there ever was. I am a bit of a banana bread snob actually, entirely due to the fact that I was raised on this bread.</span></div>
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Hope you all were celebrating with family and friends! We had a great brunch with my side of the family, sandwiched with a work weekend.<br />
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Esquire and I have both been doing 50+ hour weeks as of late which has made life complicated. Easter at least was lovely :)<br />
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And the Skinny Deviled Eggs later in the week? Guilt free bliss.<br />
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Sidebar: our eggs were Batman.</div>
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And to make these eggs... these delicious and healthy, happy, eggs...</div>
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Well. We killed the Batman.</div>
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Anyway. To make these eggs, you have to peel your beautiful Easter eggs. As I said before, you are pressing your luck at this point anyway. Those puppies are good for another 4 days or so tops.</div>
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As with all deviled eggs recipes, the trick is the slice and spoon. You cut your hardboiled eggs in half and carefully extract the yellow yolks. Dump the yolks into a small bowl for mixing and deposit your egg bases onto a tray. </div>
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Deviled Eggs are usually just little fat boats but, I adapted this <a href="http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/04/deviled-eggs.html" target="_blank">recipe from Skinny Taste</a>. Into your bowl of yolks (if you are making 12 eggs worth), dump: </div>
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Here's the fun part! Dump the yolk mixture (after sampling to ensure it is up to par) into a ziploc bag. Cut off the tip and pipe the egg bases with the yolk filling. All is now right in the world again.</div>
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:) hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We just had a dozen for dinner with a salad, ha. It's still skinny if you eat 6, right? </div>
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It's just a cool science trick you can do with heavy cream and some sugar/flavorings.</div>
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I made mine to go on waffles. Because <a href="http://clutzycooking.blogspot.com/2014/03/elvis-ice-cream-sandwich-waffles-with.html" target="_blank">waffles yesterday.</a>.. waffles forever.</div>
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Maple whipped cream on waffles was pretty fantastic though.</div>
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Enjoy and replicate Maple or try making some new flavors of whipped cream, my friends! And let me know how all whipped cream experiments go!</div>
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Yummm, waffles! I DID celebrate International Waffle day with waffles- I just didn't post about said waffles within the designated 24 hour period. </div>
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I figure you guys don't mind though. Waffles are good all year long. <a href="http://ellenercolini.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Waffles-friends-work.jpg" target="_blank">Just ask Lesley Knoppe.</a> Unlike other foods that associate with certain holidays (such as dyed eggs or candy canes), waffles never go out of style.</div>
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For those of you who don't know this about The King... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter,_banana_and_bacon_sandwich#Elvis_Presley_and_the_sandwich" target="_blank">the man had an eclectic palate</a>. He was tuned into the whole bacon thing farrrrr before it became a fad. The Elvis Sandwich is famously Elvis for being comprised of peanut butter, bacon, and banana on white. </div>
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While he ate bacon in quantities that I could never imagine (such as a favorite meal called the Fool's Gold Loaf: a loaf of italian bread filled with a pound of bacon, peanut butter, and grape jelly), these mini waffle bites were manageable, decadent, and delicious.</div>
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Om nom nom! Esquire and I were pleasantly surprised by how delicious these lil guys were. </div>
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While each little stack was divine, it was in large part due to the candied bacon.</div>
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Step one for me was to infuse our bacon with whiskey. I put all the bacon (in my case, a pounds worth) in a bowl and drizzled with some Jack Daniels (about 1/4 cup) and tossed before setting aside for 30 mins. I then laid them all flat on a cookie sheet lined in foil and brushed with a capful of the good stuff (Gentleman Jack). </div>
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Now you have your bacon ready to bake. You're going to have to decide if you want your bacon to lie flat or crinkle up in lovely bacon waves. I wanted mine to crinkle as I liked the texture for pictures. If you want your bacon in big flat pieces, simple top your cookie sheet with another piece of foil and then another cookie sheet. The second sheet will press down and flatten the bacon while it cooks. </div>
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Bake for 20 mins! If you sneak a peek at your bacon and it doesn't look as crisp as you'd like, cook it for another 10-15 mins. Don't up the temp! Just cook it for a bit longer. When you take it out of the oven, the sugar will harden too so, keep that in mind if you just want it to crisp up a bit.</div>
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My very candied bacon, yummm. Loved the texture of this treat. We had it on our waffles and later in a salad. Won't lie to you guys, we also ate a healthy amount on its own.</div>
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Fun fact, you should have sugary bacon grease left on your foil lined pan. I threw some pecan halves into that mixture and broiled them for 2 minutes. They were great with salad but would also be welcome additions to a bowl of ice cream or, if you are STILL celebrating international waffles day, some waffles and whip cream! <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/very-important-next-level-waffles-waffle-recipes?bffbfood" target="_blank">Buzzfeed also posted some great waffle concepts for waffle day</a>, you should probably get your waffle makers ready for the weekend...</div>
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life was boring was lying. I feel like the whirlwind from the wedding is just
now (almost two months later) starting to die down. I’ve been trying to keep
the blog breathing through my comics page updates but now that my life is more
organized and I have located my camera’s memory card/been able to take pics of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The number one thing Esquire and I missed most whilst on
wedding diet from hell was pretzels. Followed shortly by donuts and pizza.
However, fresh baked pretzels, Aunt Annie’s style, seemed to be on all
appetizer menus we went to, every mall we went to, each gas station oasis… and
for some reason, pretzels always seem to hit the craving button! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which, I guess makes sense. Who doesn’t love pretzels?
Buttery with that lovely browned crisp outside and doughy middle… bliss. Add
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copy cat Aunt Annie pretzels. While they take a bit of time, they are
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convinced she is a food-wizard) but even a little bit fatter, they hit the
pretzel spot. Fresh from the oven too… they are something to experience. </span></div>
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with our batch of pretzely goodness. Below you can find the pretzel recipe... and tonight you can expect a post with our top three cheeses, ranked along with our choices, ratings, and links to buy your own. Plenty to look forward to! </span><br />
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finger in it. Stir in the yeast and let it sit for 3 minutes. Add the butter
and sugar. Add the flour about 1 cup at a time and then add the fine salt.
Kneed for about 10 minutes. Put it in a greased bowl and cover with greased
cling wrap. Let rise for 1 hour in a moist, warm place until doubled in size.
Preheat the oven to 450º. Punch down dough and divide into 12 lumps. Roll them
all out as thin as you can. Combine the warm water and baking soda in a wide
bowl. Form the dough into pretzel shapes or bites, then dip your creations in
the baking soda water. Place on a greased baking sheet and sprinkle with coarse
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Ha! I am beaming. You can't see me because that's the internet for you but, I am a glow stick right now. So freaking amped I don't have to deal with the cupcakes I once deemed clever and cute that I came to see as sloppy and stressful ever again!</div>
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It is so strange to see all the cupcake posts on my blog. I think what came to be my frustration with them was that I can't even connect to the human I was at the time of baking. I had a long weekend for some reason back in the fall of 2011 and decided to make an alphabets worth of cupcakes.</div>
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I made 3 flavors (vanilla, chocolate, and red velvet) that spanned over 135 cupcakes and over 50 hand made/iced decorations in 3 days. I then spent the next 3 days photographing them all after work.</div>
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Ha, my roommates tolerated not just the sugary smell of cupcakes and icing that infused our entire first floor for a week but also the take over of our entire dining room table. And yeah. Roommates. Because that's where I was and who I was when I started this. Single female living in DC with 6 other humans. </div>
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Come a long way since then... dated Esquire, got engaged, new job, mom diagnosed with cancer, whirlwind wedding planning, move across the country, buying a house, Esquire taking the bar exam, Esquire passing the bar exam (!woot!), and then, right! This entire fairytale day was two weeks ago...</div>
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Gotta say, my wedding rocked, guys. After all <a href="http://myscribblednotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/when-something-goes-wrong-in-wedding.html">the work and stress </a>was said and done, my wedding rocked hard. And I love my husband so much and I am so excited about everything that has happened and is happening for us because, while the trip here may not have been the easiest one we could have chosen... now that it's over, now that we put in all the leg work and took all the stress in one big gulp, we are just married, living in our house, and taking it a day at a time.</div>
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One lovely, fall, low key day at a time.</div>
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P.S. In case you were wondering what happened with the 130+ stale cupcakes when the week of icing was over... don't worry! No cupcakes were wasted. The toppings however, got sliced off and trashed. I then used the cake bases to make a cupcake bread pudding that was pretty much awesome. I don't think I ended up taking pictures (grand intentions) or maybe I did but it was so long ago, I have no idea where those files are (ha, woops...). Either way though, the many many cupcakes were devoured in the end by my many many friends. Just... not as cupcakes but as bread pudding with chocolate chips and salted caramel sauce.</div>
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<br />Meg Lubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14327570762835056301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239460948663278962.post-82164451782499650942013-10-04T12:30:00.000-05:002013-10-04T12:33:45.088-05:00Now I know my ABC's... Let's review what the years cupcake alphabet brought<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This post is not intended for tangents though. This is the last of the cupcake project posts. This is the "Now I know my ABC's, next time won't you sing (bake?) with me" part. This is where we savor where we started and where we landed. This is where we list the entire alphabet for one last hurrah.</div>
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Specifically, Zelda Ocarina of Time cupcakes.</div>
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However, before I go there... let's pause guys. <b>This is my last letter! </b>Alphabet DONE! It also happens to be my wedding eve as I sit here and type this. It is just after midnight where I live and as soon as I can stop acting like I am a four year old on Christmas Eve... maybe I can even get some sleep.</div>
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Big days are always hard to settle down for and, as far as I can recall in the history of me to date... this is my biggest day yet. Plus, my wedding is going to be so much fun! So much to be wired and excited for!<br />
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I created a nice little group of cupcakes using icing and then the chocolate/wax paper technique for some of the 3D effects.</div>
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The Triforce cupcake! (Gandolph, Link, Zelda... or Power, Courage, Wisdom)<br />
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Esquire, myself, and a dear friend of ours have a thing about the triforce. Love the image representation above...</div>
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Ocarina cupcake! (For those of you who don't know, an Ocarina is a wind instrument used in the game to create actions).</div>
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Navi cupcake!</div>
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A lil' fairy side kick to Link in Ocarina of Time. </div>
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Generally, people found her annoying but I thought she was adorable.</div>
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I tried to make my fairy cupcake the appropriate amounts of sparkle.</div>
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Master Sword cupcake!!!</div>
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Same technique as I mentioned. Piped white chocolate into the shape and then painted with food dye. I wish this didn't look so streaky...</div>
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And that's a wrap! All the Zelda cupcakes, all the alphabet cupcakes, and just under the wire! I am a Mrs. in the morning! </div>
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As described in this post, it was a truly beautiful geek moment. Excerpt below. As well as a pic of us which, as I said before, is something new I will continue to try to do here on this blog. No pictures of myself was a silly policy anyway.</div>
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"He proposed on our anniversary, filling the first floor of our house with candles and flowers. When I came down the stairs to all the lights and sparkling and flowers, I immediately started to cry and squeaked out "NOW?!"</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Both of us started cracking up. Esquire continued his flowery speech and turned on the TV and written on the main Zelda screen was "Marry Me".</span></div>
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That's right. My man is both romantic as hell and a complete geek. He also is extremely thoughtful- since we live pretty daggum far away from both sets of parents (closest set is 8 hours, next is 14 hours), he had them write me/us letters saying how supportive they are of us and how excited they are for us that we could open just after I said yes.<br />
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Yoshi and Gang!</div>
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So, a fraction of the gang. As anyone involved in the Nintendo universe knows, the options are limitless...</div>
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Such a fantastic, boob-tastic, fantasy show. Pure 90's. Pure joy. I feel bad I didn't include Gabriella but, I love these cupcakes as they are.</div>
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Xena is all on Netflix. If you didn't watch it when it aired in the 90s... you need to watch it now.</div>
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One of my all time favorite modern musicals out there. </div>
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The book isn't as fun- skip that if you want my opinion. However, SEE THE MUSICAL! It is pure magic. All of the ingredients of a great musical combined. First of all, and most importantly: a great score and amazing lyrics. Top that off with a beautiful set, costumes, and a healthy dose of star power.</div>
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The exceptional Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth as the original stars for example.</div>
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Well, in sum...Wicked is wicked :)</div>
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For the cupcakes we have, the yellow brick road, the crushed Wicked Witch of the East (sporting her red slippers), and our Wicked Witch of the West's (Elphaba's) pointed black hat.</div>
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Elphaba receives her black pointed hat from Glinda at a certain point in the show. Her trade mark piece as the show (and later connection to the Wizard of Oz movie) progresses.</div>
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The hat's top is a fondant topper, pressed down into an Oreo cookie base. I piped some black icing over the cream filling so the entire hat was consistently black.</div>
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Part of "the untold story of the Witches of OZ" was learning about Nessa, Wicked Witch of the East, Elphaba's sister.</div>
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I represented her here by crushing her with a cupcake, ha. Blue iced dress peaking through. Licorice legs with piped white detail. Red starburst shoes dipped in red sugar for sparkle.</div>
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Starburst rose with a piped thorny stem and a piped V emblem. </div>
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White chocolate and dark chocolate, piped then cooled on wax paper. Peeled off and placed on a cupcake.</div>
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Such a great film. A definite dark action movie. Distopian future. Corruption surrounds. The people revolt. </div>
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Natalie Portman buzzes her hair off in it too.</div>
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Underworld!</div>
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Ha, my most gruesome cupcakes yet. Reader beware, a cupcake is going to bite it!</div>
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<a name='more'></a>These lil cupcakes are meant to illustrate the death scene of Viktor- Vampire Bad A$$ in Underworld who gets his head sliced by the main hero (a decked out in pleather Kate Beckinsale), doesn't realize it, takes 10 seconds, seems to consider something is amiss, and then 3 seconds later, half of his head slides off his body.<br />
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He looks just as shocked as my lil cupcake! </div>
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No blood spurting everywhere or anything too frightening. Just face sliding amounts of gruesome.</div>
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"Oh no, my face! Death is imminent!" cupcake!</div>
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These movies are all gory, cheesy, ridiculous, black lit... down right crazy action flicks. Full of campy vampires and lycans (werewolves)- if you love a silly fantasy/sci-fi films- you really should check it out. There are four. All more ridiculous than the last.</div>
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you will see something new.
two things. and I call them
Thing One and Thing Two.
These Things will not bite you.
they want to have fun.'
Then, out of the box
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I made mine with pain icing, coconut, red foil liners, construction paper tags tacked onto the liner, and then cotton candy hair. </div>
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The internet displayed such cupcakes, deflated and upsetting to their bakers, and I began to brainstorm as I was thinking up this whole letter scheme. </div>
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I decided on doing chinese rice noodles. Coated in a blue tinted white chocolate, even without the cotton candy the cupcakes looked adorable and the little rice noodles worked as little branches, elevating the cotton candy from the moist icing that would (if contact occurred) unfortunately melt the cotton candy hair.</div>
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For those who don't know the game, the green diamond floats above your Sims heads to illustrate which Sims are currently in play. Sims are little human graphics that you create, dress, nudge in the directions you choose, control entirely, or watch them live lives you basically orchestrate. You build their houses, start up their careers, help them make love matches, have lil graphic families. </div>
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"Great" ridiculous historical romance novels. "Great" insanely plot holed vampire romances. </div>
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Romance novels are cheesy, silly, sappy, fun reads. Can't help it. Even the poorly written ones are an enjoyable read, chief reason being the absolutely silly writing.</div>
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For some cheeseball romances that are still an entertaining read, check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stephanie-Laurens/e/B000AQ41GI">Stephanie Laurens</a>. A favorite of my two beloved roommates.</div>
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From the beloved TV show, Doug.</div>
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Quailman was Doug's alter ego. Super hip cat, able to fly, hypnotize, and save the world with beloved sidekick (played by his dog, Porkchop).</div>
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I made the Q by simply piping icing. The belt was a combination of shaped fondant and then an iced buckle and some belt loops.</div>
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He also scored the occasional hall pass with ease. Everything a teenage cartoon boy could dream.</div>
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No, sadly. Despite everything. I did not do a single interesting thing with these cupcakes besides make Pokeballs. I was too excited for the fun of the other cupcakes to get too creative here. </div>
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<br />And yet pokemon are so fun! I could have done so much! I just instead stuck with the basic pokeballs.</div>
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SO frustrated with past me. Although, these pokeballs are so friggin cute! Ha.</div>
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Which was your favorite pokemon? Mine was Eevee. </div>
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You may have noticed that I cranked out multiple cupcake alphabet letters yesterday and that it seems this trend is continuing today.<br />
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With the wedding this weekend, all of the planning seems to be (knock on wood, praying it to be true, please God do not punish me for saying this) done... and yet my stress level will not drop back down to normal levels of compulsive and so here we are!<br />
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I am wired. Excited, nervous, and wired. And I no longer have a to-do list that stretches into eternity for the wedding. What to do with my time? Sleep? Shower? Eat a real, decent meal perhaps?<br />
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Nope. Not when you're me. At this point, I have a SERIOUS vendetta against these fudging cupcakes. They have been a letter shaped thorn in my side that have taken me decades to finish and have been on my to-do list for over a YEAR and, until now, I have been unable to cross more than a few off at a time. So, clutzy team! We have a new goal.<br />
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I AM going to finish all these letter posts before I get married.<br />
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I will NOT start my new life chapter with the alphabet of sugary doom hanging over my head!<br />
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Ha, and hopefully when I return, we can boost some fresh blood and creativity back into this website!<br />
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Fingers crossed! Countdown to the wedding is t-minus 4 days. Bring it on.<br />
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A little collection of my favorite animated fishes!</div>
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We have the All Seeing Eye on top of some plain chocolate cupcakes to kind of look like the Mt. Doom scape that is Mordor.</div>
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However, Sauron's Eye looks much more Eye like when properly framed. I just mocked this up with construction paper to off set the look in perfect geek form.</div>
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I mean. Come on.</div>
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How fun is that?</div>
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Love LOTR. Love everything about it. Love my geeky friends who host LOTR dinner parties. Love the idea of hosting one myself. Maybe I will do some to celebrate The Hobbit Movies.</div>
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Because, come on. Just like the other trilogy. How awesome was that opening flick?</div>
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Enjoy the cupcakes :)</div>
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