Bald Cupcakes

So what do you do with a million cherries when you can't bake a pie?  Seriously.  I bought some fruit from a stand earlier this week, and I ended up with zillions of cherries.  So I Googled recipes with cherries.  Luckily, I came across something I could bake.  Cherry chocolate muffins!  I'm obviously more of a cupcake fan than muffin, but let's be honest, a muffin is basically a bald cupcake.  But the best part is that because they're muffins, we can eat them for breakfast too and not just dessert :)

I told you, LOTS OF CHERRIES!

The little guys just out of the oven

I think they'd be really good with a light icing on top, but butter is good too... since they are muffins :)

Just so you can see how many cherries were left after making these...

Don't they kind of look like this cute cupcake I got for my birthday???  :)

Birthday Sprinkles

Marcus turned 25 and was feeling a bit... old.  He definitely isn't old, but I think it was more of a graduation into the next phase of life realization.  :)  So to help him feel younger, I made some cupcakes for him to share at work.  Super chocolatey with bright colored liners and sprinkles.

They turned out pretty cute, even after the subway ride to his office...  ;)

Learning to Decorate

Earlier this week, I went to an activity where we got to learn some cake decorating techniques and practice with the frosting tips on cupcakes. Here are my attempts with a few of them.

Here's our group's cupcakes, minus the few we'd eaten :)

Faceless

It's been a long time since I've seen a picture like this around here...

And I must say, the frosting is looking a TON better now. I'm finally figuring it out :) Though because I want to practice the cute swirl, I haven't done much fancy decorating on the tops.

So these guys are called faceless cupcakes because we were given the assignment at Church to bring a treat with a face. And after days of thinking about what to do, I came up with nothing. Not one single idea. So they have stripes and spots-- bodies with no faces...

But they are pretty cute, if I do say so myself :)