thanks to my obsessive web surfing and finding pictures of great cupcakes and cakes, i am now obsessed with the idea of making tfc cupcakes, minies, and cupacakes go out the door in style. how freakin adorable are they with polka dots??!
and i don’t know about you – but this would be amazing for bridal showers, baby showers, and really anything slighty flower oriented. i see lots of really adorable set ups with flower cups. that, and it’s another one of those ‘could go anywhere’ ideas. i am now frantically planning how to hold a garden party just to use them. a great idea for an entire line of infused flavors too – i’m not looking to become magnolia or anything of the sort, but i think a lavender essence lemon cupcake would go just perfectly in one of these little guys.
game on.
okay and these i just want to have sitting around my room and mostly in my personal space at all times. they are like small canvases that i would almost feel bad dripping batter on the edge of one of them. how amazing would a little boston cream pie be in one of those? now that would be awesome. hmm. 
many thanks to Bake it Pretty
, my new favorite etsy site..
check out the above as well as a ton of other adorable and “can’t-pass-up” baking supplies 
as for cupcake recipes – im not completely sold on the ones i have so far. the carrot cake recipe i have, while very moist and delicious, is not exactly the best rising cake i’ve made.
any recommendations for recipes? i might have to ransack the BH&G Baking book – all of their recipes are absolutely supposed to work, which is a cool thing. although, it requires at times reading the recipe eighty times to make sure you don’t miss a “wait four days until you bake this” note. sigh.
there just aren’t any baking cookbooks that throw themselves out to me to make me want to throw down $25 for 50 glossy pages. any recommendations for the best baking book you own / have had the pleasure of baking something from?
any and all suggestions would be appreciated.