The invitations have been sent, the lame bridal shower games have been planned, and the presents have been bought from high-priced retail stores. Yes my sister is getting married!! It's been an extremely hectic and short summer. Boy! Time sure does fly! Anyway, I was asked to bake the delicious desserts that would be featured there. You guessed it, cupcakes.

It seems that we have been slipping into the "Dog Days" of summer as it were. At that means hot, hot and HOT! And of course, when you add a stove, the sun, and the body heat and sweat you are creating because its already hot and your are trying to get two different cupcake batters and frosting's done in a short amount of time it equals nothing other than @&%! (excuse my french). What I will take away from this experience is that 7-minute frosting and heat does not mix. I was rushing with only an hour to get ready for this mystifying experience of nothing other that oohing and ah-ing over a wide array of typical smelling hand soaps that have fru-fru names like; "Apricot Sunshine", "Rainbow Hugging", and "Cat Nip". Wait a minute. Seriously? NO. You do NOT wear Cat Nip on your hands!!!!! No no no! Who was the genius who came up with these horrific names? Even though there was a terrible amount of crap building up, I was the ONLY one who gave a gift that would disappear! Not something that you would pretend to like it then store it away for future re-gifts.


(Somehow this chocolate...

turned into this)

I was making Chocolate White Mountain Cupcakes (again) and Spring Bouquet Cupcakes. And now I know that only a fool like me would bake cupcakes when it was a whopping 98 degrees. Back to 7-minute frosting. You have to move fast. The second the chocolate cupcakes popped out of the oven I would take my koala and Mickey Mouse oven mitts and hold the hot pan in front of the air conditioner for an extremely long amount of time until they were just about warm, then I would plop the frosting on the cupcake and repeat the process again.



But as you can see, the frosting is disappearing? Oh yes. The heat was destroying my masterpiece! Darn sun. But at least my Spring Bouquet are fine...wait. Where are the pictures? I thought I took them...but...maybe...WHERE ARE THEY?! Oops! Unfortunetly you will not be seeing anything Springy or Bouquety that is related to cupcakes. I do not know where the pictures are. All I can tell you is that, I only made 9 instead of 12 because I didn't have enough batter for some reason, and the frosting had a metallic tangy aftertaste. Yuck.

Now fast forward. It was my Best Friend's birthday! And I made Chocolate Mousse Cupcakes. The picture explains it all...


Chocolate Mousse + Chocolate Cupcake =


THISSSS!



Yum yum! Bake on!