Gradumaction Times

Hello!

This week is my gradumaction times! I am officially done with high school. And on Sunday I will be officially graduated from high school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next year I officially going to Le Cordon Bleu for a degree in baking and pastry. I am being so official this week! It feels so good to finally have things figured out!
Since it is the gradumaction times that means it is party time!! My friend Jenna and I are having our party together. Since I lurve baking I am making all of the desserts for our party. Call me a little crazy, and I would agree. There is a lot of food to be made before my party on Saturday. I am planning on making 3 different types of cupcakes. 75 of each kind. 250ish cream puffs. And 250ish chocolate dipped strawberries. Yep, I am a little crazy! But this will be fun!!!!
So I have a fantastic chocolate cupcake recipe, but up until today I did not have a strawberry cake recipe. I found one that is super noms and has the right amount of sweet and strawberry (because I am not letting myself use box cake mix for my party. That totally adds to the crazy!) I found this recipe on the Wilton cake website. The only adjustment I would make would be to add more food coloring because they are not the prettiest pink color without it. The recipe is really easy useless of course you have the baking ability of a mentally challenged monkey, but even in that case it should be pretty easy. The only hard technique is... oh wait... there are no hard techniques in this recipe. If you think that creaming butter and sugar together or folding in strawberries into the batter then you need to go back to first grade.
Make sure you use frozen strawberries package in syrup. If you don't your cupcakes will suck and everyone will hate you. Don't mess up these cupcakes the world is riding on your shoulders!

Strawberry Cupcakes
Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 pkg (10 ounces) frozen strawberries in syrup thawed, and pureed 

Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar with mixer. Add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla and mix well. Combine flour and baking powder. Alternately add flour mixture and milk. Fold in strawberries. Put into however many cups of your muffin tin it fills up. Bake for 17-20 minutes or until they are done (you really should know how to check if a cake is done). Cool completely before decorating or skip the frosting and cram the sucks done your throat!
I made 22 cupcakes when the recipe said it made 18. So just use you best judgement will filling up the cups and see how many you get.

Well enjoy these amazing strawberry cupcakes and stop being a stupid monkey and make this right!
Nancy

Cake Mix Puppy Chow=Angel Farts

Hello!
So here is a recipe that taste like heaven and angel farts. I am not kidding here; if angels were to fart this is exactly how it would taste.
Besides this recipe being amazing, it has been all over pinterest. I am bored of pinterest. Normally the recipes are sub par, and the humor isn't even that funny. But that is besides the point. This recipe actually seemed good, so I tried it out.
Along with my growing hatred of pinterest, I hate short cut recipes. The ones that say "Look how easy, simple, and delicious this recipes is!" Because normally when you make them they end up tasting awful. But for some reason this super easy recipe from pinterest is to die for. It doesn't make any sense, but somehow it is now deemed on the same level as angel farts.
What is this recipe you ask?
Cake Mix Puppy Chow!!!
My aunt had this at her house the last time we visited. We tried a little bit, and I was sold. I am the kind of person who makes the batter to lick the spoon. I do not really care about how good the brownies, cakes, or cookies turn out I just want to lick the spoon. This puppy chow is like licking the spoon. It takes like cake batter. It is honestly so amazing. And super easy (which is not something I am proud to say, but it is true.)
The recipe I found online was crap. When me and my mother made this we just went for. The recipe gave us a general idea, but we didn't really follow it. I will give you my better recipe, and you should follow that one.

Cake Mix Puppy Chow
Ingredients:
One confetti cake mix
One Box rice chex
One block of vanilla almond bark
1/2 cupish of powdered sugar

Melt the almond bar. Pour it over the chex, and mix it up real good so that every chew is coated. Mix cake mix and powdered sugar together. Put that with chex and shake it up. Some people put puppy chow in a paper bag and shake. I am to lazy to get paper bags when I go to the store, so I use a big bowl that has a lid. Once shaken and every piece is coated in cakey goodness, EAT IT!!

So go and enjoy some angel farts!!!
Nancy