Cupcakes!

Last week I came up with a grand plan to make chocolate cupcakes with french buttercream. Today I made some cupcakes, but they aren't so grand and there's no french buttercream. Tragic! Anyway, I ended up making low fat chocolate cupcakes with fat free vanilla cream cheese frosting. I think I tried making these low fat cupcakes because of the clomid bloat (and we're talking some serious bloat! I weighed myself this morning and it was nearly NINE POUNDS MORE! Is that normal or am I just getting fatter? I'm curious...).

I used this recipe for the cupcakes. For the frosting I used a box of fat free cream cheese, superfine sugar and two teaspoons of vanilla, then I whipped it up with an electric mixer. OK- so I was out of the yogurt for the cupcakes so I used a bit of applesauce....and er, they're a bit dry, but they are EDIBLE! Edible = Success They really aren't that bad.



I also cut off the tops of the cupcakes to make the frosting application a bit easier. Then I made a cupcake sandwich! Clever.



God, it's hard to fit this much awesome into one person.

Kalamata Olive Bread with Rosemary

I don't often make bread because I am incredibly impatient. There is too much kneading, waiting, rising, kneading, waiting.....

But anyway, this bread sounded delish so I tried it (and adapted it a bit). The recipe I used is from All Recipes. I added some rosemary to the recipe, an extra teaspoon of salt, skipped a few steps ( I did steps 1 &2, then skipped to the end). I used King Arthur bread flour (which I LOVE), and superfine sugar.




The final product was fantabulous, people!


...and I'm totally loving Orla Kiely for Target!