The Cupcake Caper and Blogshares Blasphemy

Having nothing to say has never stopped me from saying things so I shall do a stream of consciousness post and see how it goes.

I had to have cupcakes yesterday…it wasn’t an itch or a yen; it was a full blown fix I needed them like I needed air to breathe.

Alas, no cake mix which meant I could drag my lazy ass out to the store and buy one or I could attempt to make a “complete from scratch” cake. Since I wasn’t in the mood to leave the AC I decided on the latter.

I wanted white cake, not yellow and I remembered I had some Just Whites powdered egg whites in the cabinet so I grabbed them. Then I found a fairly easy looking recipe which I followed in my typical half-ass way.

Twenty minutes later perfect cupcakes were ready to come out and cool.

How’d I do this?

Then I looked for confectioners’ sugar and couldn’t find any. I know you can make powdered sugar by whirring regular sugar in a blender but that sounded like a time consuming job so I went back to our basement pantry and looked around.

Dear husband had placed the confectioners’ sugar in a Tupperware container to keep it fresh and since I seldom bake, I had no idea he did this.

What joy when I found we were not out of powdered sugar and I could whip up some frosting which I did adding a teaspoon of strawberry extract and a couple of dashes of red food coloring as if I were making cupcakes for a 5 year old girl.

My laissez faire attitude combined with dumb luck created a confection that I have to say was way beyond my expectations.

The cake was white, light and fluffy and the frosting was smooth and shiny and a light pink with a faint hint of strawberry.

I ate six of them and then immediately had to retire to the couch to recover.

And because I have nothing to write about today, you get to learn about my cupcake caper.

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I don't know much or really anything about Blogshares except some guy keeps buying my fake stock and I decided if he wanted my stock that badly I'd issue 50,000 more shares of stock. I don't know what that will do -- crash my stock or if the Tchotchkes stock buyer will buy all 50 thousand shares I just issued. But I figured I'd screw around with him and Blogshares and see what happens.

Time for a cupcake now.