How to Eat a Cupcake: L.O.V.E.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

L.O.V.E.

First, how cute is my mom?!!

Precious, i told her i wanted to have some pennant banners for every holiday (and in between) and this arrived in my Valentines day box.

And yes, she sends me valentines day boxes!

So here is the Valentines pizza i made for my friend Kelsey who offered to watch Jack for a few hours.

Perfect since Nick and i were going to have fondue, and that isn't the easiest meal to eat with a newborn squirming around :)

I made a white chicken pesto pizza on whole wheat crust, you could also stop here... and have a vegetarian pizza. I used my grandma's alfredo recipe and added some red pepper flakes, pepper and parsley to give it some more flavor. Then i whipped up some basil and marinated the chicken in that before grilling it. I toasted some pine nuts and threw everything on the crust with italian cheese and tomatoes. I was going to cut the tomatoes into heart shapes as well, but then i realized they are already in kind of an organic heart shape :) No fuss.

P.s. this meal also made me realize that there is no reason i should not be making my own breads.

The crust seriously took 10 minutes hands on time. It smells so good rising too!

I had no need for these felly's but i wanted to try the recipe my mom found, so instead of making the 9" round cake that the lady suggested, i thought i would make a smaller one and try the same idea in cupcakes. Here they are.

They are fun, but i don't think i would make like 24 of them.

2 was fine.

I followed her tutorial pretty much...

Heart Cake Tutorial

I just ran out of flour (who does that?)

so luckily i had a cake mix, i used the cake mix with 2 sticks of butter, 1 cup of buttermilk, 1/4 cup of oil, 1 T of vanilla and 3 T of cocoa and red food coloring to make the red velvet cake.

It turned out quite well.

Her recipe for white cake was delicious!

Oh i also used homemade cream cheese frosting instead of her recipe.