My first batch!

Hello:)

Today I decided to bake my first batch. Before I started, a few questions popped into my head.

1.How am I going to eat all these cupcakes and stay in shape?

2.What will I do with them?

The answer to 1 was solved when I was running back and forth from my work station to the pantry and realized I was getting a workout. This is enough to satisfy the question.

The answer to 2 is to give the cupcakes away. Some lucky people at school tomorrow will be receiving cupcakes.

The recipe I used today is called kid-simple cupcakes, by Elinor Klivans. It goes as follows:

1 1/4 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 large egg

1 large egg yolk

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup canola oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup sour cream

I also made frosting:

1/2 cup butter

3 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3-4 teaspoons milk

and I added orange zest for flavor

All of the ingredients I used were organic! Pretty shnazzy:) They tasted really good too!

Here's the deal:

I don't know how many of you have seen or read Julie&Julia by Julie Powell, but it is a very good story. Julie cooks through a whole cookbook of Julia Child's, and blogs about it as she goes.

I do not cook.

I bake.

I love cupcakes. So today I decided I was going to make a cupcake blog. I honestly don't know who the heck would read this, but maybe someone will.

I'm starting off with a deck of 25 cupcake recipes. I'll start sometime this week.

My mom was the one who suggested I blog, and I said, "sure why not." So here I am.

I suppose I'll let you know when I start.

:)