This morning's projects
1. Giving Sally flea medicine
Flea medicine makes Sukey twitch, so she doesn't get any.
2. Flourless chocolate cupcakes, take 2
One of the people who tried the first batch of these called the texture "chocolate jello," which I just can't make sound good, so I added lots of toasted pecans to this batch.
3. Impatient baby cupcakes
These are for a baby shower at work this afternoon. Until 8:30am these cupcakes were going to be pink and blue, but that's when I got the email saying the boy arrived two weeks early--he and his mama are doing well, but we'll be eating cupcakes without them.
At the shower we were supposed to give them copies of our favorite children's books, and the animal crackers are to go with the bookplates:
Note there's just room for a signature, so no one has to come up with a thoughtful inscription (phew!)
Comments
I am giving my niece a wedding shower in June. Have you ever done wedding shower cupcakes? I think those might be something different and more fun than a cake, even. Hmmmm.....
We are going to make a huge strawberry trifle, and have cake or cupcakes.
My mom is celiac so I know all about the gluten thing. There are plenty of other flours you can use. Rice flour is pretty popular, and mixes of different flours, too. Mom has made some tremendous recipes that you would never know didn't have the traditional white wheat flour in them. You're better off searching for a recipe that is specifically gluten-free as opposed to trying to adjust a current recipe, though, as conversions are difficult with the different flours.
For a few of her birthdays, we've bought her a gluten-free cake which actually was more of a heavier, brownie consistency, and the icing was divine, although I don't know what they used (some brands of icing sugar are okay, others are not).
I haven't done cupcakes for a bridal shower but there's all kinds of fun things you could do--would topping them with a cocktail umbrella be too obvious? Does the shower have a theme? Do you want to do a little decorating or a lot?
I would have to say I would want to do little to moderate decorating! My daughterinlaw does some awesome cake decorating but she is going to be out of town for this one! (darn it!)