Monday, February 14, 2011

Weekend of Parties... and Baking

While I was at Borders this weekend a bunch of their giftie was 50-75% off so I got this awesome bag, a lunch boxes to store my cupcake wrappers and other baking stuff in, then a bunch of books that were $1. I love bargain shopping!

It was my grandpa's birthday yesterday so I made him spice cake and attempted to make macarons again. The spice cake was excellent, the macarons were better than last time!
I used the extra fluffy buttercream recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take over the World and the spice cake recipe from Kitchen Illiterate.

The macarons were rose flavored with vanilla cream in the middle. I wanted them to be more puffy, but at lease none of them cracked or broke. They were delicious!

Friday we had a Valentine's Day Cocktail Party. I made 6 dozen mini red velvet cupcakes with fudge icing. The red velvet recipe is my absolutely favorite (for the recipe scan through the older posts). The fudge icing came from a magazine article from about 4 years ago, it is delicious.

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