Yesterday we had H’s third birthday party at Sugarush in Red Bank. This is our favorite cupcake bakery, and I love that they’ve opened a party room for events. Read more on Cupcake Party!…
Tag: cupcakes
When I was in high school straight through to my twenties, I complained endlessly about getting older. It was like as I was experiencing my own youth I was desperate I was going to lose it. Birthdays felt like something slipping away from me.
My family came over to our house today to celebrate my mom. I made 2 chicken pot pies. We gave my mom a really pretty hydrangea. And we had these cupcakes.
I’m pretty excited about these. Late night cupcakes while Adam is mid-marathon. Actually, he’s more than halfway through. But I promised I would bake him something, and after dinner I baked and decorated these Pac Man cupcakes. I’m especially proud of the cherries, complete with white frosting highlights. I made 4 different colors of frosting, not counting the base white and chocolate. 
Then I had to make a milk run because we were out. Our 24 hour convenience store around the corner apparently closes at 11pm, so I made it in with just a few minutes to spare. The frosting is the vanilla flavor I made for the book club cake, the chocolate used for eyes is store bought.The cake recipe is the Dark Chocolate Sheet Cake recipe from America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book. I’ve posted so many cake recipes lately, this one I just want to enjoy looking at. So no recipe tonight.
These are, without a doubt, the best cupcakes in New York City. Sugar Sweet Sunshine bakery did the cupcakes for my wedding last year (we had a tower of cupcakes instead of a wedding cake), and they were a huge hit. Adam and I are addicted, so whenever I find myself anywhere near the Lower East Side I try and pick some up. So when I was in SoHo today for my sewing class at Purl, I headed over to pick some up before going home. Adam spent the afternoon mowing the lawn, so these were his reward for being all manly and domestic.