Last night Stacy, Melissa & I made these adorable cupcakes. They were so good, and the girls and I frosted them in between fits of giggles. Too much sugar made us silly. I was worried when I tasted the batter, because it tasted like cheap strawberry lip gloss, but when they were baked, the flavor improved considerably.Along the lines of other things cupcakes, I discovered this site devoted solely to all things cupcakes. It's really cute, and has links to a million other cupcake sites. Oh, for the love of all things fluffy and cakey.
Next, there is this cupcake supply site, which is really a kick. The opening page is seriously like
Barbies for big girls. There's all sorts of papers, and accessories, and super cute aprons and things. (Which reminds me of Toni Collette's character Alice in the new show US of Tara... It's about this woman with multiple personalities, and one of the personalities is named Alice. She's perfectly 1950's, with her little matchy matchy dresses and painted nails, and she bakes lovely cakes and things for the bake sales. She wears aprons, and when I bake cupcakes without provocation, James calls me 'Alice.')
Aprons like the ones I found Etsy make me want to wear pumps, white gloves, matte red lipstick, wave my hair and learn how to make a perfect cocktail! Which then leads me to the cutest idea I saw in Food & Wine this month - Tea Forte makes a lovely pyramid tea infuser, but they also make cocktail infusers! So you place one of these spice pyramids into the cocktail, and you get a fancy little drink! Woo Hoo! I sent the link to my friend Kristina, who owns Paper Caper in Lake Oswego, and I hope that she adds the cocktail infusers to her Tea Forte selection.
