The Adventures of a Frustrated Baker

So in honor of Easter, I made some cupcakes last week.  These weren't just any kind of cupcakes mind you, no they were cupcakes decorated to look like sheep!  They were adorable and yummy and actually quite easy.  A little time consuming, but if you have a few trusted responsible young little helpers at home you could probably get all the marshmallows cup pretty quick!  I got the recipe for the cupcakes and the decoration idea from Martha Stewart's Cupcake cookbook, which I suggest all of you cupcakes lovers out there should really buy.  I love it and there are so many fun and yummy ideas.  In fact someday, when I am all grown up, lol and once again have a kitchen of my own to trash, I want to bake my way through the whole cookbook.  Sigh, how I cannot wait for those days...anyway here is your recipe! Our ingredients.. After adding all the eggs...it looks like this! Look at them all!!!! Vanilla Buttermilk Cupcakes From Martha Stewart's Cupca...

So while I was making these for dinner a while back I was making little comments to myself...you know stuff to remember for next time...stuff to be sure to tell you all about in case you decide to make these little meatballs from heaven...needless to say I said "balls" a lot...and my husband felt the need to share some of these comments on Facebook.  You see the things I put up with?!  Now you understand why I am frustrated!  Lol, no worries though, they got made, the family loved them and I tuned my silly hubby out long enough to write down what I need to tell you all about these "balls"! I read about these on Picky Palate's site a few weeks ago and have been desperate to try them ever since.  It took a few tries, but I was so glad when I finally found a grocery store around here that had the marinated mozzarella balls...yes honey...I said balls.  Sigh.  Anyway...I used my normal meatball recipe and enclosed these yummy little bites of fre...

Yup, you read that right.  Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Raisinets in them.  They are delicious, they are divine, they are quite literally the best cookie idea I have ever had.  Seriously, best one EVER! My husband, in his wonderful kindness bought me one of those big bags of Raisinets the other day because he knows I love them.  My first instinct of course was to hide in a dark room by myself and devour the whole bag in one sitting.  Don't worry though, saner heads prevailed and I resisted but I was not sure what to do with them.  I thought it over for a few days and had a couple of different ideas, but I kept coming back to these cookies.  It just seemed perfect to put chocolate covered raisins in an oatmeal chocolate chip recipe.  I used my favorite oatmeal chocolate chip recipe that I received in an email years ago.  One of those chain mail things about Neiman Marcus cookies...one of the ones that is totally untrue...

For the last few days I have been debating on what to make today.  At first I planned on making some sort of fake out dinner or dessert, you know cause it is April Fool's Day...but I decided I didn't feel like going through all of the effort this year.  I wanted to make something quick and simple, I wanted something sweet and salty, I wanted something crunchy that you could eat with your hands.  That's it! Popcorn...but not just any popcorn.  I based this popcorn on a recipe on Picky Palate's site for Snicker Doodle Popcorn with White Chocolate Drizzle .  It looked delicious and was the perfect snack for our "Girl Party" today.  It was just us girls today at home and Tangled just came out on DVD...so we just had to watch it...and make some popcorn, apparently this makes it a party, or so my daughter says. Note the cream...I left mine out because I felt the white chocolate chips didn't need it with how thin the caramel sauce was....