Saturday, November 5, 2011

Making Strides...My Month of Baking

Whew...October went fast.  It was a whirlwind of baking and I honestly don't even remember everything that i made, besides cinnamon rolls....from scratch.  If you've never made them from scratch, here's a word of warning...they literally take between 3 and 4 hours from start to finish.  You should not start them at 7:00pm on a Sunday and expect to start your week off well slept.  They didn't sell in my bake sale as fast as i expected, so i imagine they weren't as sticky/gooey as they were supposed to be...In any event, we raised a lot of money towards Making Strides Against Breast cancer and The American Cancer Society and it felt good but was rather exhausting to put together delicious baked goods on Mondays and Fridays.  

For Halloween i made a fun new recipe for the pumpkin lovers of the world...Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Buttercream Frosting!  I got my inspiration and recipes from the i am baker blog, which i love! These were SO very easy to make.  My husband said they weren't quite "pumpkiny" enough.  Next time i will review the recipe for pumpkin pie and add some other spices into the recipe to bring out the pumpkin flavor.
  
Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Buttercream

If i make them again, i will make more frosting, because i barely had enough for 24 cupcakes and the proportion of frosting didn't look right for the cupcakes.

And a tiny chocolate covered sunflower seed to add an extra hint of fall.

It's almost...you guessed it...Sugar Cookie Season.  But first...Thanksgiving.  i am pretty sure that i will be making these cupcakes again for Thanksgiving and just giving them some extra Pumpkin-Oomph.