Michelle and Martha: Archive

May 1st

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Sep 8th

#12 Happy Birthday! Hoot Hoot!

So for my boyfriend’s birthday, I made decorative owl cupcakes! I used the classic buttermilk recipe because it is my boyfriends favorite. Every time I say that I am making cupcakes, he always wants me to make that one. Let’s just say he has slowed down my progress through Martha’s book on more than a few occasions. Hehe! I did get to try a new decorating style in her book...

Jul 6th

Inspiration

Since my blogs have been scarce I thought I would post a few images of things I’ve seen online that inspire me. I like this combination of frosting and fondant decorations. Beautiful color! and I want to try that stitch design on fondant! _____________________________Simple, elegant, beautiful!__________________________ These are from a shop called Sprinkles....

Jun 28th

#11 Happy Easter!!!

To celebrate Easter I chose to make cupcakes with birds’ nests on top of them! The cake is Martha’s white cupcake recipe (that I didn’t realize was actually in the book. My mom found it!) and we used the fluffy vanilla frosting. To make the birds, we dyed the remaining frosting blue and piped them onto the top of an already frosted cupcake. I did not have my tips with me so the...

Apr 11th

#10 One bowl chocolate batter? ...well I need to...

So I will start with this; There is this lady at my work who always brings in cakes or treats for whoever is having a birthday. Our supervisor’s birthday was coming up and she told her, “I don’t want you to bring anything for my birthday. You do it too much. I appreciate the thought, but I don’t want you putting yourself out for me.” So…secretly…behind her...

Mar 17th

#9 Pumpkin spice and everything nice!

I am SO EXCITED for the fall season!!! I made these pumpkin spice cupcakes for a “pre-thanksgiving dinner” with some friends. The batter uses all of the best spices! Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and….something else, I forget. It also uses pumpkin puree, which I think helps make it so moist! They baked very well and were very light and fluffy. I made the cream cheese frosting for...

Oct 18th

#8 Decorating Time!

This was back in August (To show you how far behind I am in my posts) for my friend’s daughter’s birthday. She was turning 7 and was having a tea party for her birthday. I showed my friend the book and she pointed to the piped flower decorations. I thought I could at least try it. So I told her I would. I used the basic buttermilk recipe with the fluffy white frosting, only I made...

Oct 18th

#7 ...Rhubarb? Are you sure???

Due to my lack of constant funds, I have tried to reduce my baking to a need-only basis. So if there is a party, birthday, holiday, some sort of need for sweets. then I will bake them! So my boyfriends friend was coming to visit all the way from China. Since China seems like a good enough reason I offered to bake him something. “Yes please do, he loves to eat!” My boyfriend says....

Oct 18th

#6 Baked Banana

So my old roommate one day comes up to me and says, “So my friend at work is having a baby shower this week and I was wondering if you wanted to make cupcakes for her??? It’s monkey themed so maybe….Bananas???” So I took the challenge on and made these baked banana cupcakes from Martha’s book. Baking the bananas was sort of odd. you left the peels on…they...

Oct 18th

#5 Nutter Butter!!!

So, don’t tell Martha….but I made cupcakes that were not from her book! One of my friends got this recipe for a nutter butter cupcake that sounded so wonderful that we had to try it out! It was very simple too so for people that are nervous to make things from scratch this one still uses a box mix but then adds things to it and puts it together in such a unique and wonderful way! I...

Sep 5th

#4 Blueberry & Whipped Cream

Sorry it has been so long since I’ve posted but not to worry! I have definitely been baking plenty in that time so get ready for a massive amount of blogs coming very soon! Back in July I made the Blueberry and cream cupcakes that were one of the first recipes that I feel like I flopped. I am such a big fan of blueberries but these were kinda off. They seemed too soggy to me because the...

Sep 5th

#3 Buttermilk

Ok, sorry that it has been so long since I posted anything on here. My laptop is getting old and heats up and then shuts itself off so that has made things complicated. I have written this post probably about three times now so I am finally being smart and writing it on word first so in case my laptop shuts off again, it will hold on to this document. So not this last Wednesday but two Wednesdays...

Jul 7th

#2 Carrot Cake

I considered skipping this one initially since I don’t like carrot cake, but after the protest of some friends I decided to go along and do it for them and for Martha. I have only tried carrot cake a few times, and it usually has long stringy pieces of carrots that don’t taste cooked enough. This is most likely what has turned me off about carrot cake. So, in an attempt to make them...

Jun 16th

#1 Chocolate chip cupcake

Yesterday I attempted the first cupcake in Martha’s book, the chocolate chip. Seems easy enough, I thought. Several things were brought to my attention throughout the process of making these cupcakes: It has been a very long time since I have baked a cake/cupcake from scratch. I realized that I had turned into the insta-baker, where all you need is a couple eggs, water, oil, and a box. I...

Jun 12th