The sticky little details

Here's a serious question, do they make cupcake pans large enough to accommodate eighteen cupcakes? The answer, not surprisingly, is no. Unless you know someone who's specializes in making custom baking equipment. I know I'm personally not going to cross my fingers and wait for some kind stranger to send me one in the mail. But all silliness aside, lets get down to business.

Behold, The Official Rules for this ridiculous challenge. Not only is that underlined, but italicized and in bold font too. That combination just screams "She's really serious about this cupcake thing."

1. I must bake every recipe in the book and try them all. This unfortunately includes the recipes that have ingredients such as prunes, maple syrup rhubarb, jam, balsamic vinegar, smoked salmon, brandy, vodka, kaluha, Irish cream, and...wait a minute, I get to use liquor? Nice

2. I must bake a minimum of at least twice a month. Alright, I bet the few people who have read this so far who aren't my parents expected me to be baking my but off for five hundred days. Please, let's be rational about this. As mentioned before I'm going into my junior year at Clark University. I do not have the time, the means, or the space to make eighteen cupcakes on a daily basis. Yea, I'm going to modify some of the recipes so they only produce six or twelve, but even then, I'll still run out of room. Fortunately, I have found what a more cunning person would call a loophole. For each recipe, Connolly offers three additional variations. If I'm making a batch of twelve or eighteen, I will include the variations within that one batch. Yes to some it might be cheating, but trust me, I am still baking five hundred different cupcake recipes.

3. I mustn't give into the temptation of giving up. This will probably be the hardest to follow. Even before the challenge starts I know that I will be faced with many opportune moments to walk away. But I will not. I have made this resolve and will do what ever it takes to stick to it. 

Those are the rules so far though I'm sure I'll be adding to them eventually. If anyone wishes to, please post any suggestions you might have.

As for my start date, I was thinking August 5th. To start off with, its a Friday and one can never go wrong baking-wise if doing so on a Friday. But seriously, the reason I'm considering August 5th is because my close friend returns from her four week trip in Russia the following day. So not only would I have a cause for baking cupcakes, but someone to eat them as well. 

How does that sound?