Happy November!

My amazing decorating this year.  I had many people take pictures of my pumpkins.  How awesome is that, no pumpkin guts and I am popular!

Hey all! How is everyone?  Miss me? Probably not, I have been missing for well over a few months now.  I am just getting ready for bed but I wanted to pop  in and say hey. Hubby and I had a rare date night tonight, we went to see Bad Grandpa, and I feel bad to admit I love the stupid humor of it.  I laughed so hard I nearly pee'd my pants.  I will never be one for mature humor.  I like a good fart joke better.  Just saying,I  am a 12 year old boy inside.

 My parents watched Pork Chop and it was just nice to go out.  Last night was Halloween and it was so crummy out that we hardly put any decorations up.  So sad it really is my favorite holiday.  Pork Chop had his party the weekend before and we stupidly said he could have his first sleep over.  Other than one kid being sick and having to go home it went well.  I let the boys decorate cupcakes and there was disco dust everywhere.  I will never learn.  Then we had family over the day after.  And it was nice but we had to clean like crazy.  I never feel like a worse homeowner than when we have people over.

Pork Chop is a killer on the ice.  But he is still so cute!

Hubby and I celebrated our 11th anniversary and went out to a special diner.  And then walked all over downtown Toronto, and it was weird but whatever.  It was nice to have time together.

Other than that my training at work should be done before the holidays and I cannot wait, I feel so out of sorts with it all, but such is life.

I saw these at Walmart and I screamed for Hubby he was all like, "uh huh"  whatever I was grossed out!  Pork Chop was all, "They stole your idea!!"  Kid thinks I invented cake pops, poor boy he is so proud of me for no reason.

Pork Chop is back at hockey and loving it, he wanted to be a goalie for years, and this year his is.  Help me people this equipment is costly and I still have a shoe addiction so I don't know if I will survive this.

Anyway hope to see you all soon on the web, or "on the line"  Can you name that movie?  Hubby won't stop saying that.  Sigh.

Angry Birds Cupcakes

See how red they are?  They were red, but not as red as this picture.  The camera makes it look better.  Wish it did the same for me.

  So as with most things, I am behind the times.  I mean I didn't start playing Angry Birds until a few months back.  But as also is my issue, I become obsessed and play all the versions any free second I have.

  I may have issues.

  Anyway when one of Hubbies friends at work asked me to make her some Angry Birds cupcakes I said sure, after yelling at Hubby for not giving me like 4 weeks notice.  Anyway they turned out just fine, I nearly lost my mind when my stupid edible printer would not work.  I mean I seriously almost drop kicked that sucker.  Only saving grace was I left it alone over night and the next day it was fine.  Whatever, I am still mad at it.


  So I made cupcakes from scratch as that is what she asked for, and I make cupcake toppers like I have before and I just used a bunch of colourful butter cream.

The pictures Hubby printed out for me.

  So to start I printed out the pictures, I told Hubby to make them smaller as I was in no mood to roll out a bunch of fondant after the printer was pissing me off.  Then I rolled out a mixture of half fondant half gum paste, using my pasta roller of course.  Then I brushed a little water on the fondant and placed a strip of pictures on top.  I planned to use a cookie cutter to get them to cut out nicely.  And of course it didn't work, it would cause the picture to tear a bit.  So then I thought I would cut out the picture before putting them on the fondant.  And that worked okay.  I don't know, something about being in a rush really makes me screw things up.

And this is Pork Chop, in his Perry the Platypus PJs, making a really weird face.  What else is new.

  Anyway, I did the toppers a few nights ahead so they would dry right out.

  Then I made two batches of cupcakes, using these recipes that I love from Sugarlicious.  The chocolate ones are so dense and moist, honestly they are better than....well, you know.  I cannot say it, Hubby may read this you know.  Anyway they are good!

Icing paper goes in.

And Pork Chop waiting, so he can eat the left over paper.  

   So once they were baked I picked out the colours I wanted to make my icing.  I made my regular old butter cream, on that same link I put up there, and coloured it all.

The pigs are my favorite.

And I think they turned out okay.

 I then used the largest fluted tip I had and disposable pipping bags and just put a nice swirl on each one.  I then stuck a topper on each cupcake, before the icing had a chance to crust over.

   I made that awesome red using Americolor super red, you need a good amount, but man it is red, no pansy pinky red for us.

  So that was it, the kids had a great time.  Pork Chop got to play some fun party games at the birthday, and I got to make something and not have to worry about who to make eat it all.