Iron Cupcake Challenge. Cranberries.

So some of you may have noticed the little button on my blog entitled "Iron Cupcake". It's a worldwide group that issues a cupcake challenge each month. This month the challenge is cranberry - meaning you must make a cupcake that contains cranberries. I came up with this one, nothing fancy, but yummy.


Vanilla mini cupcake swirled with homemade cranraspberry sauce and topped with an orange glaze and cinnamon cream cheese frosting.

Iron Cupcake offers these amazing prizes to the winner:
A one-of-a-kind pin doll from the LOLLIPOP WORKSHOP.
An illustrated book by COOKIE SUNSHINE
A deliciously sweet apron complements of SWEET CUPPIN CAKES BAKERY AND CUPCAKERY SUPPLY.
And CAKESPY, will be doing a piece for the winner each month until further notice - sweet!

And here are the details on the voting process. When voting is open, I will post info and then i will begin begging all of you to go and vote for me:) But in the meantime, go check out the other entries here.

Merci!

Another reason to like Winter...

Cranberry Cream Cheese Bars - made with homemade cran-raspberry sauce.

If you know me, you know that I am not particularly fond of Winter. I can appreciate the look of fresh snow, and I enjoy a nice cup of hot cocoa, but all in all, I would rather be laying by the pool. So, this year I decided that I need to find the upside of Winter, as I'm sure I will spend the rest of my hopefully many more years living in SL. So far my list consists of:
1. Watching my kids play in the snow.
2. Drinking hot cocoa.
3. Christmas.
and 4. Baking things I wouldn't bake any other time of year. Like the aforementioned Soft Ginger Cookies, and now these Cranberry Cream Cheese Bars. And let's not forget all of the comforting soups and roasts that warm my belly through the Winter months. No wonder I always pack on that extra 5 (or +) pounds every Winter...

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Domestic Goddess.

I recently made some goodies for a birthday party that the Domestic Goddess was planning. The colors for the party were pink and green and each of the guests had a personalized cupcake... If you haven't already checked out the Domestic Goddess site, you need to... She's amazing! And I was really happy that she asked me to make her treats! Merci beaucoup!


Personalized cupcakes. Vanilla with strawberry and vanilla vanilla.


Heart sprinkled squares, and green sprinkled rounds...