The Best Cupcake EVER

Have you ever tasted something that was just so delicious, you had to tell everyone.  Yeah, this is one of those times...

A few weeks ago, a friend posted on facebook a link to Bake at 350's blog post about Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes.  She said she would like someone to make them for her birthday and a mutual friend suggested that I give it a go.  Well, I'm always up for a challenge!

These cupcakes are amazing.  I don't mean they are good, I mean amazing!  These aren't for the feint-hearted, oh no, with 6 1/2 sticks of butter, 2 1/2+ cups of brown sugar, sweetened condensed milk, and powdered sugar, let me just say if you have diabetes, stay far away from these!  But be warned -- eat, enjoy and don't think about what's inside.  Here's the link to the printable recipe.

With that being said, these are the best cupcakes I have ever made.  They will go into the "repeat because they are delicious" recipe file.  The cupcake is denser than a regular cupcake, almost a cookie texture.  It tastes like a big fluffy cookie.  In the middle is homemade cookie dough filling.  Wow, just wow.  On top is a brown sugar frosting that I would love to just keep in my fridge to snack on, if it wouldn't make me fat, which it will.

The recipe made 24 cupcakes.  I gave 12 cupcakes to my friend for her birthday yesterday, Happy Birthday, Sandra, and am keeping the other 12 for my anniversary.  Yesterday was my 11th anniversary to my wonderful husband, Seth.  I love you honey!  I hope you enjoy the cupcakes!

My first time decorating cupcakes by piping the frosting.

A Relaxing Weekend

I had an amazing weekend.  My husband and I got away for the entire weekend.  Alone.  No kids.  Just us.  It was heavenly.  Don't get me wrong, I love my kids, but I love my husband too.  This was the first time that we have been completely alone together since, well, since a weekend when he was home on leave from Afghanistan.  I spent that entire weekend sick as a dog, so that doesn't count.  So before that... well, I honestly don't know.  I'd have to say it was probably in October of 2009.  Yes, that's right.  That was the last time that the kids spent a weekend at Grandma's house where Seth and I were alone together.  Needless to say, we had a great weekend.

We spent the weekend up in Harrisburg.  We ate at some local restaurants, went to a Hershey Bears game, and did some shopping.  Overall it was a quiet, relaxing weekend.

Surprisingly enough, I had some time to read.  Not much though, as I found myself still doing Friday's reading on Sunday morning.  But I had a little over an hour in the car on the way back and during random times during the day yesterday, I managed to get myself completely caught up in my reading.  In fact, it was 5 minutes to midnight last night and I finished Daniel 8.  I had to laugh because I don't know how He did it, but God sure stretched my time to allow me to finish 3 days worth of reading in 1.  I read from Ezekiel 31 through Daniel 8 in one day.  Wow. 

What I read was mostly prophecy, some of it was chronology for Daniel.  Some parts were easier to read than others.  All of it was wonderful.  I'm so glad that I'm still on track and reading so much of God's word right now.  This week I have 2 field trips and a whole house to clean before my grandparents get here next week.  I'm sure God will provide time for me to continue to stay on track and read His word.  It's such a blessing to be reading the Bible! 

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March Goals

Here we are at the beginning of the month again.  It's time to set goals and I hope to succeed on all of them this month. 

• Exercise 3 days a week.  I'm going to go for this one again.  I may have missed my opportunity to look good this weekend in a swimsuit at the hotel, but I'm going to be ready for swimming this summer.
• Plan 2 field trips in May.  I'd like to get at least 2 scheduled and also start working on some for the fall.  
• Continue reading my Bible.  Yes, this one is going to keep being on here.  
• Plan another cooking day.  I'd like to get some more ladies involved in this, but if it's just me, that's ok too.  I like the benefit of cooking one day a month and not worrying about what we will eat for a whole month.
• Organize the school room.  The room has become cluttered and what we have for storage is minimal.  Extra computer paper, construction paper, envelopes, etc. are all sitting on a shelf at the moment and get scattered and look terrible.  I'm trying to find creative ways to keep papers, art supplies, extra books, all of it.  I'm open to suggestions if you have some!

Overall, it looks very similar to last month.  Here's to hoping I can get this month accomplished!