I am alive! Although, I have not had much time to blog (or had any reason to), because A) summer school has become my life - and as a student, I suppose school should be my life, for the most part; and B) I have been having awful, awful luck with my baking lately. This weekend, I thought I would make chocolate cupcakes with amaretto frosting (I splurged at Spec's :) ). I decided to use Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake recipe for the cupcakes and an amaretto buttercream recipe I found on a blog. Usually, I can trust Hershey's. Their chocolate chip cookie recipe (on the back of the semi-sweet chip bag), ah! Seriously yummy, simple, classic cookies. But oh no, no no, now I have lost faith in good ol' Hershey's. I am not sure what went wrong, but my cupcakes turned out to literally be cups of cake. Sinkhole cupcakes. No good. So, I decided ok, ok I will attempt vanilla cupcakes. They came out looking like cupcakes, but they were dry. So dry, so disappointing!! The frosting, however, was fantastic. Consistency maybe not quite stiff enough to pipe with (an easy fix), but the flavor was great. LOVE amaretto.
The 4th is coming up (as in tomorrow!). So, to celebrate Independence Day, I will be making possibly a cobbler, carrot cake (not exactly fitting for the season, but I have been craving it, and I am determined to make my carrot-despising boyfriend try it; carrot cake could pass as "Italian Cream Cake", right? ;) ), or I might make root beer float cookies (thank you, Pinterest), because they combine two of my favorites: root beer float + cookie = it has to be good!
*fingers crossed* that whatever I end up making will be fabulous! Or at least edible. Yeah, I'll shoot for edible. Edible and attractive.
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