I figure that being a college student provides me with the perfect opportunity to start exploring new hobbies since I'm basically in the prime time space for learning right now. Anyhow, after spending a six-week long winter break in households of amazing cooks, I was convicted to finally buckle down, pick up a spatula and begin creating!
I'm starting small. Baking. It looks fun, relatively easy and delicious!
Cupcakes are the first task on the menu, there are tons of recipes online and they are easy to share with others. I already have a motto: "I bake to share!"
So armed with a small starters artillery of baking supplies, I boldly went where I had not gone before... the kitchen! My lovely friends over at the Cove allowed me to use their oven while watching The Office and then Superman Returns and I'm sure keeping them up past their bedtime. My first batch took forever and frosting the darn things was ridiculously difficult! I left those behind as a thank you to the Cove and decided to wait until the next day to frost the remaining cupcakes.
It took me forever to figure out how to make the frosting soft enough to spread on a moist cupcake so the first half of them look like they were ground into the dirt but I eventually got the hang of it and ended up with some really sweet (ha, pun) cupcakes!
Unfortunately, these beautiful cupcakes met an untimely doom...
The night I finished frosting them, I was carrying them over to share with Erik and his roommate when I missed a few steps at the end of the stairs and went tumbling down to the ground, cupcakes and all. Campus Safety was called and an EMT came to help me out. I ended up with a sprained ankle that was salvaged with an ace bandage and an ice pack, however the cupcakes were not so lucky.
It was a bittersweet moment, piling them back onto the plate and then later dumping them in the trash. Hopefully my next delectable dessert will be more lucky!
2 comments:
Ah Katie! So sad about your fall and injury, and the demise of the cupcakes. I can imagine how that all felt, but am glad you are able to laugh about it, and share so others can to. :) Thanks for sharing your blog with me! You kept it a secret too long! I will look forward to your posts! We miss you here in Illinois! Hope your semester is getting off to a great start!
Aww thanks so much Amy!
I'm glad that I know someone will be reading it! I miss you guys too, and yes, my semester has actually been amazing so far.. I'll be writing about it soon in fact.
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