~~~~WILL THIS CUPCAKE MAKE ME FAT?~~~~ And Other Interesting Stuff

I love writing about cupcakes, but I'd much rather be eating them!
(And yes!  This cupcake WILL make you fat!)

When I was still a little girl I learned early on I was blessed with one very talented mother.  I've shared with you before how she was truly before her time.  Creatively gifted and spiritually refined, I owe so much of who I am today to my Mom and her 'never-give-up-attitude'.  She pressed through during many difficult days and I know for sure I do not possess the best that lies within her.  Life has not been easy for my Mom...  She is, and always will be, the strongest person I've ever known.

And the most talented.

When my mother married my father in 1955 she was given a Woman's Home Companion Cookbook as a wedding gift.  (I've written about this before but it's been a long time now!)  I remember as a child pouring over the pages of the cookbook and dreaming about the things I was going to bake when I grew up.

 

Many  years ago my mother gifted me with an identical cookbook and it's been a mainstay in my kitchen ever since!  If you want to hunt down a great vintage cookbook that tells you WHAT to do and how to do it, then this book is the one you!  Not just a bunch of recipes!
(Love that!!)

 These sweet rose-topped cupcakes were baked using a Coconut Cake Recipe that is pushing sixty years old.  Paired with yummy Butter Frosting from the same cookbook they are totally divine!  My Mom painstakingly tried to teach me to make a rose out of decorator frosting when I was about nine or ten...  I think I managed to pipe out about two or three and I recall them being such sad little things!  Even today I still can't make a rose like she does...

Soo~let it be said!  I like cake!
Cupcakes to be more specific!
I know...I know!  Everybody seems to LOVE CUPCAKES these days and as I shared with you the other day I think that's the funniest thing!  Who would have ever thought that a stand-alone-cupcake-shoppe would ever be successful???

Given the prices on some of the little confections I've seen behind their glass cases I'm thinking they just might be making a killing...

Last weekend I spent a little time making these sweet cupcakes for a summertime gathering for three of my closest friends.  We had a fun time chatting and sharing and eating!
(Eat Cupcakes!  Be Happy!)

 I found these amazing paper muffin cups at Tuesday Morning and you need to check them out!  They are gourmet quality and trust me when I tell you "they aren't your momma's muffin-cup!"

 They weren't cheap, but like everything at TM they were off-priced.  The paper peeled away from the cake and the cake was actually left in tact!  Nothing gets me more than leaving half my muffin (or cupcake!) on the paper.  There is NO GOOD WAY to respectfully chew it off in public! :(

I opted to pipe the icing onto the cupcakes this time and I actually love how they came out!  But...that's alotta frosting!

~CUPCAKE  FRIENDS~

Soft vanilla teacakes

Butter-cream in pink

Tied with silky ribbons

With a bit of tea to drink~

Frosted wee confections

Dainty with a rose

Trimmed with paper laces

For a party, you suppose?

Gathered 'round the table

Our hearts in love partake

The best of pastime pleasures

Just friends and sweet
CUPCAKES!

Rebecca Elliott Nelson
(You know that's me, right?)

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Today I'll be working on packing up this little beauty for one of my favorite bloggie-friends!  I'll be back to the creative grind (aka: website pretties) in no time!

Blessings for a wonderful day...

Love to you~