Diario di Mamma Jenn

I haven't posted in the past few days due to lack of time. Right now I am multi-tasking, folding clean clothes, blogging and most importantly preventing Izzie from getting into any trouble. :) I had promised to post pics of the cupcakes with frosting, so here they are, pretty aren't they? In reality it's not a frosting, but a glaze and I made it in two different consistencies. The cupcakes with the candy pearls are more of a glaze and the ones without candy is more of a frosting. I didn't make this glaze from scratch, it was store bought and it's pretty cool because it's a powder that looks like confectioner's sugar and you just add a few tablespoons of water and it's done! The taste is good, it has an orange-y taste. I still want to try the vanilla frosting from scratch and if I have time today, I will bake another batch of 12 and this time with the vanilla frosting. I tell Roberto that making cupcakes is so much fun!! I have found so many yummy cupcake recipes that I want to try when we head back home to Texas, for example, the pina colada cupcake, and yes it does include real rum!! I am going cupcake crazy (in a good way) just trying to perfect the cupcake itself, imagine what will become of me when I try to perfect the frosting!