Tomorrow is Studly Doright’s birthday. Falling so near the Thanksgiving Holiday, sometimes his big day gets barely a nod. After all, didn’t we just stuff ourselves on turkey and dressing and pecan pie until the mere thought of having a slice of birthday cake seems like the ultimate in gluttony? And then there’s the sad truth that I struggle with anything kitchen-related, baking cakes included.
Nevertheless, I bought a cake mix and a can of icing while shopping yesterday, and this morning I set about making a cake for Studly. As I mixed the cake I had a thought. What if, instead of baking a sheet cake I made cupcakes? That way I could send the bulk of them with Studly to work and we’d keep one for each of us to enjoy after dinner tomorrow.
I happened to have some little paper cupcake 🧁 wrappers so I placed those in my large cupcake pan and began pouring batter neatly into the 12 cake slots, filling each about 2/3 full. I ended up with almost half the batter remaining, so I poured a bit more into each cup. Still there was an extraordinary amount left over. Finally I thought to check the box and realized that the mix was meant to make 24 cupcakes. Well, of course it was.
Meticulously, I scooped batter out of each of the already filled cups and transferred it to another muffin pan, making something of a mess as I went. However, I finally had 24 muffin cups filled with fairly equal amounts of batter.
Amazingly that was the only misstep in the entire process! The cupcakes, although admittedly not uniform in size, baked to a light golden brown. I allowed them to cool for the exact right amount of time, and the frosting went on smoothly. Maybe, just maybe, for once in my life I didn’t totally screw up this latest kitchen adventure. But there’s still time.
(Note: These are NOT examples of my cupcakes. Even the reality side looks slightly better the mine.)
I’ll leave you with some George Harrison.
Praying for Eyebrowz 
Great post! I throughout. A few years ago decomposed wedge salad, served on toothpicks
.. offered to make them for New Years (cool right?) could not get the lettuce to stay on the skewers, epic fail.. cupcakes can’t be worse they made it to the oven, my lettuce not even onto a skewer! Thanks for sharing! janice http://www.fiftyfatandfabulous.com
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I can’t imagine the stress of trying to get lettuce to stay on a toothpick!
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Overwhelmingly so, 🙂 So many layers. Give me a mozzarella ball and a cherry tomato
any day!
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😃
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Sorry laughed throughout, 🙂
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I’m glad you did!
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oh the things we do right, Moth’s birthday is Christmas Day, so he often misses out as well, I do however try and make it up to him, his favourite foods are bacon and eggs and pavlova (I think that is a very Aussie thing) so on Christmas night we have bacon and eggs and then Pav for dessert, he is not much of a cake person….Happy Birthday Studly xo
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Yum! I’ve had pavlova and I love it, but it’s not served here often.
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Oh cool I was a bit worred, you would have no idea what it was lol. Hubby loves it, I can’t eat it because of all the egg!
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Here was me thinking they were yours xxx Happy birthday to Studly x
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Nope! But mine taste pretty good.
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Good on you, Leslie. And I say “three cheers” for gluttony. Without it, we’d all live really boring lives. Happy Birthday, Studly! – Marty
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Studly says, “Thanks!”
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Well done. Happy birthday to Studly
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Thanks!
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