A Happy Birthday begins with a KitchenAid mixer
My mom gave me one of my birthday gifts a bit early. A KitchenAid mixer! It's a lovely 9-speed hand mixer and I LOVE it! I broke it out on Thursday night to make cupcakes for a birthday at work and then again tonight to make cupcakes for a combined birthday/Mother's Day celebration we're having as a family tomorrow.
My sister-in-law's birthday was yesterday and mine is Tuesday, so we usually combine our birthdays. :)
Anyway, I wandered through Barnes and Noble this morning and found a couple of really cool cupcake books. One really isn't a book, but it's still so cool. It's called The Cupcake Deck (don't ya love how I'm talking about Barnes and Noble, and I link to Amazon. ;) hee hee. I'm a total Amazon supporter. If there was an actual Amazon store, I would definitely frequent it). It's a really cool box with 25 cards inside with photos of each cupcake and then the recipe. Wicked cool!
The second book is called 500 Cupcakes. I'm sure some of you out there (holla Sarah!) are already aware of this yummy book. Anyway, I made the Strawberres 'n' Cream Cupcakes tonight and let me tell you... DELISH! The new mixer was a champ and plowed right through the very thick batter. Speaking of how thick it was, it was the consistency of cookie dough. Seriously weird. I thought I'd done something wrong, but after they were baked they were all sorts of fluffy and spongy. In fact, a couple of the cups were a bit too full and overflowed the cupcake wells. Imagine a sugar cookie on top of a cupcake. It looked like that! Sweet!
I still have to do the whipping cream and strawberry topping for it (I'll save that for tomorrow before I drive to my brother's house where we're having the party), but the cake portion is fantastic! One of the cupcakes came out all wonky so of course it became the "test cupcake." One must always have a test cupcake. After all, who wants to spend all that time frosting the little buggers if they're gross?
500 Cupcakes. A real winner. Go buy the book. I mean it. Buy it and then make something and tell me what you think. :)
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posted on May 12, 2007 7:26 PM by Kristina |
3 Comments posted in General |
Oh Kristina, you LUCKY, LUCKY girl. I seriously {heart} everything KitchenAid. Everytime I see an advert in a magazine, I point it out to my boyfriend - 'See babe, anytime you want to get me something, this is what I would like'. His reply, 'Why, you never bake anything' to which I reply, 'Ahh, but I would if I had one of these beauties' Hope you have a wonderful day on Tuesday!
ps. Thanks for the email regarding my 'prize'. I'm looking foward to it arriving here!!!
i...need...both...cupcake books. i haven't seen them before!! YUM!! well, really i only have a few cupcake books and could use some more for my stash. ;)
and happy early birthday!! :)
Happy Birthday! You should definitely post the recipe, I know I would love it!