Make It a Cupcake Monday

I have a love for baking and I found a blog called Confessions of a Cookbook Queen .

She has endless numbers of different Cupcake recipes. The good thing about cupcakes when you have 7 kids is they are easy to give out as dessert. So I thought that On Monday's my day I dont usually work that I would try a recipe of hers. Today I tried the Peanut Butter Cheesecake Cupcake. I made a few changes when I made mine but pretty much followed it perfectly. The recipe was so easy to follow and I am going to love trying them. The steps were easy too...1. Bake the cupcakes 2. cut the hole in the center 3. make the cheesecake filling. 4 fill the cupcakes 5. top with crumble and mini reeses. So simple and so yummy. Stay tuned for next weeks cupcake Monday.

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Spice Up Dinner with Some Yummy Dessert

So dinner tonight was not really anything fancy, just some grilled cheese on wheat bread. I do more easy dinners then hard ones on the nights my husband works because its just me and the kids. They eat the easy stuff much better then the elaborate meals and less mess to clean up. Oh did I say that. So to spice things up a bit for them I decided to throw together these Apple Dumplings I got from Southern Loving Food Blog. I just found her blog and I am loving it already. They smelled so yummy when they were baking. I was a little worried about how brown they were but I did load the cinnamon on top. The kids loved them and really they took very little prep time. I can even imagine having them right from the oven with vanilla ice cream on top. I have to worn you how sticky the pan is. I have mine still soaking and It has been hours. I just bought this pan so I hope it comes clean. I dont know about anyone else, but I like a brand new baking sheet when I am ready to make Christmas cookies. Just makes me feel so much better. I know I still have not posted any new projects that are finished, but I just have not had time. I had 3 parent teacher conferences Monday and Today was filled with yearly physical exams for half the kids and flu shots along with some standing in line at he post office. I promise soon. Happy Thursday.

PS I read my post because I do that sometimes when I wonder if I am being interesting or just plain boring and I found so many typos. How does that happen when you type a word wrong it gets underlined by a red line right? Am I that tired when I am blogging? Ok back to my coffee and crafting.

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Make A Dessert Monday-A Day Late

I am going to try to make a dessert every Monday for the kids since that day is good for a few reasons. The first one is that all 7 kids are all back together after a few days away from each other. The Second I dont work on Monday's and can experiment with things. The third its Monday and well Monday's could always use a good dessert to end the day with. This past Monday I had promised the kids I would try a 3 layer cake. I have never tried that before so I decided to go with neapolitain. I did one chocolate layer, one strawberry and one vanilla. I wanted a simple vanilla frosting but I should have had more because I didnt have enough. And next time I think that I will go with a butter cream that is made from scratch, its thicker and holds up better. I made each cake one at a time. I cut the top of the strawberry since that was the center. I should have cut the vanilla too, but I will know better next time. I would also like to try make fillings for between the layers, I have never done that before. All in all I think that it turned out okay and the kids loved it. So I will be doing more of these and experimenting with new flavors and combo's to.

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