*Please excuse this blog post for an important update*
Though you would never know it, my precious lap top has gone away for repairs and will be gone for the next few days. What, you might be wondering what this means, it means that I will not be posting as frequently as I wanted, and that my first post covering the beginning of my cupcake challenge will be delayed. On the plus side, I did manage to get have my lap top repaired for free instead of paying the $430.00 fee so I shouldn't really complain.
*Now back to the blog*
As much as I would like to take credit for coming up with the nickname Cupcake Armageddon I'll give credit where credit is due: thanks Dana for coming up with that. But in all seriousness, I really feel that calling my little project Cupcake Armageddon is appropriate. Think about it; I'll basically be passing through some cupcake version of hell as in an attempt to bake 500 different cupcakes. I'm anticipating so much chaos to come from this that I feel the need to apologize in advance to my roommates and anyone else who will be living in Maywood Street Hall this coming year. Though it is not my intention to do so, I sense that I'll probably be setting off the smoke alarm more than once this year. I can, however, promise to never set it off at 3 in the morning. I lost count how many times some person in my pervious dorm, Dana Hall, set off the alarm in the middle of the night. I pray that whoever is reading this never has to experience something like that. I rest assure my readers that I will try and get all my baking done during the day. Of course, setting off the smoke alarm will not be my only problem. Money will mostly likely be another issue for me. Yes, I am one of the few fortunate college students out there who has a job but still, I've seen the size of the bags that some of the dry ingredients come in and let me say, they aren't all that big. I sense the need for a budget. Have I mentioned that math is my least favorite subject? This in its self will be a challenge all its own. At this very moment I'm trying to figure out how to break down recipes that produce 18 cupcakes to ones that only produce nine or six. If your curious in how that's coming along I'll fill you in: painfully slow. I'm crossing my fingers that I figure this out before its too late.
Sadly time is running out. I do, after all, only have three days left.
Three days! How did time go by so quickly?
Gee, am I really able to pull this off? But fear not, I foresaw this happening and planned accordingly. Last weekend I sent out emails to a number of fellow bloggers who blog about their baking adventures seeking advice. The responses that I have gotten so far have renewed my confidence. A common theme in the responses that I have received so far is to remember to just have fun. And really, I shouldn't lose sight of that fact. Additionally, I shouldn't be upset if I have a baking disaster of proportional size. So true. As I stated back in my first post (wow that seems so long ago) I am doing this for the experience not the fame or glory. -Special thanks to Michelle Norris and Monica for the advice. I really appreciated it.
But who wants to hear something excited? Anyone? Well, I see that I have no current takers right now but I'm going to share it anyway. I went shopping for ingredients this past Sunday! Yea, I have shopped for groceries before, but this time, something about this trip felt special. Maybe I'm just searching for importance in something trivial but who cares? I don't. I have all the ingredients that I need and can now successfully begin my cupcake challenge. Well, nearly all the ingredients. You see, my mother despises the smell and taste of mint, and since one the variations is called mint cookies & cream...you can figure out what happened. I did try and attempt to cunningly convince my mom to let me purchase the mint cookies but to no avail. This is one recipes that will have to wait. Sorry Olivia, I know that you like mint too :(
Keep an eye out for my next post tomorrow night in which I discuss a little something I like to call thinker's remorse
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