by the Mall Diva
Hey, what up, peeps?
I have been doing a lot of baking, even though I haven’t done a lot of posting. Sorry! I’ll give you the rundown (and no, Jifufu, not the version with The Rock).
Let’s see, 2 weeks ago, I made these totally awesome cookies that were posted by a fellow baking blogger. Thanks, Gino!
Along with that, I made Mint Chocolate Chip cupcakes from How to Eat a Cupcake. I had made these two recipes because we were having a barbeque with a bunch of friends. The cupcakes were pretty good, but the kids at our house informed me incessantly that the frosting tasted like toothpaste. I kind of agreed with them, even though I used less peppermint extract than the recipe called for. Maybe next time I’ll use even less; or none at all, and just have chocolate buttercream. Mmmmmmm…
Then this past week was poppyseed week! Orange Poppyseed cookies came first. They were completely awesome!! They are the perfect summer cookie.
The second recipe of last week presented itself to me via fanmail. (That’s right, I get fanmail*.) It came from the July issue of Family Circle, and was, in fact, on the cover- Giant Lemon Poppyseed cupcakes!
I love pretty much anything lemon poppyseed, and so away I went. I did not make giant cupcakes, because I’m too cheap to order the giant cupcake pan from the magazine, but they were absolutely delicious normally sized. While I was frosting the cuppycakes, Benny was taking pictures, and kind of irking me at the same time. I chased him with my frosting knife. I would post the pics, but I don’t know where the little USB thingy is, and I’m too busylazy to find out.
*Thanks, Grandma!
I like the title of this post almost as much as the lemon poppyseed muffins!
And on a tangent, I’m going to have to convince you to make some suet pudding some day. Yummmmmmmm!!!!!
glad you liked them.
how many did Ben eat before they cooled off?
Hmmm, I don’t remember, but the kids that were at our house for the barbeque had at least four or five each.