Who doesn’t love cupcakes?

I made cupcakes for the first time today! 😀 (Yay!)

I always loved them, they look so colorful, and vibrant, and delicious, and happyful.

I was afraid of screwing them up since I’ve never sifted flour (I didn’t know it was so easy 😛 ). I’ve been looking at them for weeks, thinking of how much a beautiful experience it would be to eat them. 😀 Finally today I gathered up the courage and made them for the first time!

I took the recipe from Allrecipes, my favorite site for recipes!

What did I make? Red Velvet Cupcakes! 😀

Here is the process shown:

First, was mixing the batter, to make it smooth, light, and fluffy… This is with added food coloring. 😉

Next, putting the batter into each cupcake holder… That was a little difficult to do since I’m a beginner. I guess it shows. 😛

20 mins later… yay! They look as they should! 😀 Step one, success! 😉

(Although it seems I didn’t put it evenly 😛 Oh well!)

(Emmm, please excuse the state of the oven top, but I was cooking before baking and didn’t clean it yet. 😉 )

So, the frosting next! As I was making it, I thought that the recipe wanted a lot of sugar, but I considered that this is how cupcakes are and did the whole thing.

I put the frosting on top, but I refrained from posting it here because the frosting on top flopped on the cupcake with no shape, and it doesn’t look good. 😛

Done! 😀

M. tried one. He liked it, but added that it was a killer, that there was really too much sugar. I told him that’s what the recipe said, that’s what I did, and next time I’ll look up a different recipe.

He couldn’t believe that one recipe could be such a “killer” in sugar, so he went to the pc and see the recipe himself. And…. it seems I made a mistake….Whoops….

The recipe ingredients list is for 30 cupcakes. I made 12. Allrecipes converts immediately the necessary amount… But it seems not the numbers in parentheses. I didn’t know this…. Whoops. So, basically, I used 16 oz. (473 ml) of confectioner’s sugar for 12 cupcakes…!!!! O____O

Yikes!!!!

They really are a “killer”. I ate ONE, and my stomach is in such pain now. 😦 X_X It sits like a rock in your stomach.

While I was mixing the batter, he noticed that I had used the whole bottle of red food coloring, and commented that it was really a lot, but I told him that this is how Red Velvet Cupcakes are. Well… guess what. 😛 That amount was also in parentheses. Whoops. So, half a bottle wasted. 😦 And it was so expensive… 1 oz. red food coloring (which is how much I put in total when I should have put half or less), was 5,50 euros!!! O_O Goodness, Finland is so f$%#ing expensive.

Oh well.! 😉 It was my first time making cupcakes after all. Plus I am a novice cook. 😛 Plus I didn’t know this “bug” in the Allrecipes site. Next time I’ll know!

As a tribute to the wonderful world of cupcakes, I present to you photos that I found off the internet (= no, I did not make these 😛 )

Lets – ee – gooooo! Super Mario!!! 😀

These are so CUTE!!!

Have you started to drool yet? 😀

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year to you all! 😀

I wish you a very happy year, with good health, close friends, joyful times and peace of mind. And may you get over your troubles, fears, problems, anything that set you back in 2009! 🙂

How did you spend New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? 🙂 For New Year’s Eve, M. and I made finger food (yum!) and it was sooo good! 😀 And we watched Lost while the firewords were shooting in the sky… 😛 A pair of addicts, don’t you think? 😛 xD It’s quite thrilling, making you want to watch more and more! Now we are at the second season.

For New Year’s Day, I cooked 😀 I did my best, since I haven’t been much of a cook so far. I made Chicken Salad (substituting the turkey for chicken) and Chicken Broccoli Roll. Both were very good!! 😀 Yay! I made it. I also made brownies, but I left them a few minutes extra then they should have been, so they weren’t as soft as I would have liked. Damn, brownies can be so sensitive and difficult to make.

I haven’t written for 4 days… I know. So now I must write 3 more posts today…! O_O Eek! It’s just a way to make me to be disciplined and be on it every day. Maybe even once a week could be good, but for the beginning I want to make myself write, thus forbidding myself to quit… And then after I reach a point when it’s become a part of  my life, I can change the frequency, have better quality maybe, or have it more concrete.

About the question I had here, I was thinking about it again… (I do appreciate your comments btw. 🙂 ) But why would someone want to visit my blog again, just to read my thoughts? If we take it cynically, doesn’t everyone just care about themselves? Well ok, I don’t want to insult my friends so let’s take strangers. Someone stumbles on this blog… Why would they want to spend time to read someone else’s ponderings? Some people have enough with their own as it is, let alone knowing others’ as well. I just would like your opinions on this since I was thinking about it …

I have another 3 extra posts to write, but I will do them during the week! I’ve got dishes to wash, time to spend with M., and maybe to watch Lost. 😀 😀

Have a good evening!!! 🙂

Let it Snow … !

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we’ve no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Yo ho ho!!! 😀 May you have a White Christmas this year, with lots of snow! =)

Today I am baking… I tried a recipe for the first time yesterday, and after a mistake I made (because I was very, very tired), I had to re-do it today. The mistake? I forgot to put a whole bunch of ingredients in the mixture!! O_O 😛 No judging, please. 😛 I was indeed exhausted that day.

But today it seems to be going well so far…! 🙂 The mixture smells good…. I just hope the rest goes well too. 😛

I am making melomakarona, as I mentioned in my other post, Christmas is almost here. 😉

I will post pictures when they are done!

I apologize for not posting yesterday (I said I’d be posting every day), but I was baking (or trying to 😛 ) and was quite busy… So today I must publish 2 posts! xD

I love the sound my boots sound on the snow…. ❤ It’s such a nice feeling.

It’s been snowing all day today… So I will have a White Christmas. 😀 ❤ Which is great! Listening to Christmas songs, and looking outside the window to see the snow falling softly on everything, gives a very peaceful feeling. ^_^

I would like to dedicate this post to snow.

For anyone who is interested, here is some information from wiki. 😉 All About Snow

P.S. So they don’t hunt me from DA, because I used to be a very frequent visitor and I know, I must say that all these images are from DeviantArt. 😉 Well, the ones that have links to them at least (the last three images). Go to their page, check the rest of their artworks. =) DA artists are truly magnificent. (Not all of them of course, but quite a few of them with monstrous talent reside there.)