National Chocolate Cupcake Day!

While updating myself on my favorite cupcake blogs, I came across one with a link to a food holiday website - and October 21st was Chocolate Cupcake Day! So in honor of the day and finding this website, I made chocolate cupcakes of course and plan to stay updated with most of the days. Some are gross or foods that I never want to make...but when it's something fun then I'll "celebrate"!

If you didn't happen to have a chocolate cupcake today, then pretend you did with these that I made. Some of them I added marshmallows when I took them out of the oven, but other than that they are your simple chocolate cupcake with chocolate buttercream icing - but they are delicious!

That's all for now! I'll update soon with I've been up to!

Love, Taylor

home sweet home

...for a few days at least! I flew in Thursday evening and stayed until Monday morning so it was perfect timing and a good break from my last semester!

Friday me and my mom went shopping to some of our favorite places by the Galleria area and went in search for a Houston cupcake boutique - Sugarbaby's. It was so delicious and was decorated so cute, hot pink and black! The pictures of what we got are on my mom's camera, but I would suggest going there if you're ever near the Galleria (http://www.ilovesugarbabys.com/) Friday night we went out to eat and got sushi with Mandi, Lee Lee, and Sam and then I got to see Amber afterwards!

Saturday during the day, we all went shopping to more places like consignment stores and Marshall's, and Michaels. Then we went to Madison's Creek game and I finally got to see her do her thing - She was amazing!! Here are some of the pictures I got:

Touchdown Cy-Creek!

That's Madison on the podium in all black!

Again of Madison

Walking out onto the field - Madison is the far left of the 3 in all black

There was a beautiful sunset!

After her halftime show me and Scott left to go find a place to watch the Tech/UH game...we found enough seats at Fox and Hound, but if you watched that game then by the end of the night I just wanted to go home. I didn't get any pictures (thank goodness) but we had a great time with Lorraine, David, Kevin, and Paige who also joined all of us!

Sunday I went to church with my parents, finally got to spend some time with Scott so we went to Best Buy and drove around town, and then for dinner we had Lorraine, David, Kevin, Paige, and Austyn over for dinner - ribs and sausage that my dad grilled! For dessert I made cupcakes (of course :o/ ) but I was so surprised how amazing they turned out! They were called Raspberry Cream but tasted like angel food

Topped with raspberries

Topped with strawberries

Leftover strawberries filled with the raspberry icing

All in all it was a great weekend! I wish I would have flown home more over the past few years, but I think maybe that's what made this trip even better...

I got in yesterday morning and have been nonstop since, but after tomorrow things will slow down. Tomorrow morning is business school's career fair - so say your prayers and cross your fingers that I can schedule a few interviews or at least get some leads to a job!

Goodnight,

Taylor

banana pancakes?...nope, banana cupcakes

Tonight I was procrastinating on my projects for my classes, so I searched long and hard to find a cupcake recipe that called for all the ingredients I already had! Well I finally came across one that I did have to tweak a little to not be so fattening, and they turned out delicious!

They are banana cupcakes with honey-cinnamon frosting! The cupcake part turned out perfect but the frosting was a little runny, but tastes SO good! I didn't have any left over bananas to slice to put on the tops, but I figured they would get brown over night anyways.

So after a fairly easy recipe, here is the results!

These are ones I got risky with and added chocolate chips in the batter and to the icing

And these are the regular ones with just banana batter and the icing

I wish I could share because they are SO good!!

I have to finally get back to working on my project for my Entrepreneurship class tomorrow, but this was a good break!

Goodnight,

Taylor