I know, it's madness

Q. What do you do when you are trying to eat healthily?
A. Make a batch of yummy cupcakes that you can't eat!

I have had this fantastic cupcake book (you can spot it in the background) for probably about a year now (plus the Magnolia cook book). It is a truly beautiful book - beautiful recipes, beautifully designed and beautiful photographs. However for some reason I have had stage fright about using it - it is from the USA and for some reason cups and sticks have scared me. Ridiculous isn't it!! But not anymore.

I was inspired when reading Caroline's blog the other day and seeing her fantastic baking. Since then I have been fixating about wanting to try out my cookbook but couldn't find the time. Until today.

The results apparently, according to Noah and Rich were delicious. You will be pleased to know that I haven't had one.

My only disappointment was in the colour of the icing - I had wanted baby blue for my boys but ended up with a rather green effect! Note to Caroline - I honestly wasn't copying you cakes - they were supposed to be blue - but I feared the blue food colouring effect on the boys and so couldn't bring myself to add more and make a dark blue!

Oh well - onward and upward.

Comments

[Ali]

You're right to beware the blue food colouring. I made blue jellies for an underwater party when Mark was 5 and his poo was pretty amazing afterwards.

Sorry if that was sharing a little too much. Cute cupcakes btw.

[Monica]

you should try to make blue scramble eggs... amazing the things kids want to eat.

They're very scary looking by the way. I read somewhere that if you want to diet/eat less you should make your food blue with food colouring because it's a colour our brain doesn't associate with food and makes us want to eat less of it as a consequence... worth a go?

I guess they didn't mean blue cakes though!!

[Max]

Wow they look lovely! I never did get looking at that book - remind me next time! How can you resist them? You are very restrained :)

[Michelle]

Are those yummies packed in tins because you sent them away? That would be the *only* way I would ever resist eating one (or two or three)!

We received our Miniswap, thank you so so very much! Everything was immediately oohed and aahed over, and the bag is beautiful. I intend to blog about it all very soon, but I'll be devouring that chocolate a lot sooner...

[capello]

i'm a sugar addict. i love me some cupcakes, chocolate chips cookies, madeleines, you name it, if it has sugar and baked in the oven i'm all over it.

and those look so good!