Weekend recap
This past weekend was rather chill. Not a whole lot went down. Friday was mainly just relaxing at the computer playing some WarCraft with Lewis. It was good to not really have to worry about things and get back to just doing nothing. Saturday I got up, did some cleaning and headed off on a mission to make a personal best 10k time. A goal which I demolished by a full 2 minutes! In running time that’s pretty danged good. I’d like to get it down to around 1hr. That’ll take some doing, but shouldn’t be impossible.
Candy Corn Cupcake sans frosting
The rest of saturday was spent resting up from the run and baking cup cakes. They turned out pretty damn good. I made several different batches. The ones seen here i placed the candy corn on top then baked them. This melted the candy corn down and created somewhat of a candy ’shell’ inside the cupcakes. This also allowed for more frosting since I could cram it into the crevices. For another batch, I folded the candy corn into the frosting. This worked out pretty good and put the flavor throughout the whole thing.
For the frosting, I made a standard butter-cream frosting, melted some candy corn flavored Hershey Kisses in a double boiler, then folded that into the frosting. I have to say it was one of the better frostings I’ve had. It was creamy and had a candy corn flavor. Quite tasty actually. Check my photos page or the Food Stuffs page for a pic of the other variety. At the party they were a hit! So I’ll be making these again, however up next is either a Pecan Pie cupcake or something with pumpkin.
Bout to get KTFO!!!
The party at Kim and Chris’ was pretty fun. Standard party for the most part. There was drinking, Rock Banding, food, people being crazy, then passing out. For some reason boxing gloves were brought and some sparing took place. As a future reminder do not spare or anything of the sort with glasses on. This will result in them breaking again. I made it out ok, though I got punched in the face, however Neal suffered a blackish eye. More of a scratch he says, but who knows. So based on this pic it would appear that I have a pretty beefy arm. Not sure what’s up with that, but I’ll take it.
After the sparing and Rock Banding people started heading home. I decided I would just hang there since I really didn’t have a NEED to be back home or anything to get up the next day for.
Sunday was spent just kinda hanging around the hosue. I did some more cleaning, paid some bills, debated on making some chili, didn’t actually make any chili, watched some tv then went to bed. All-in-all, not to shabby of a weekend. Here’s a quick rundown: cupcakes baked: 36, punches in the face: 1 (maybe 2), shots taken: X (10 or ?, you decided), achievements earned in WarCraft: countless, pumpkins carved: 0, faces seen and rocked: a million. Halloween is this week and I still have mixed feelings about that day. I hope all goes well.