pizza cupcakes

about a month ago, daniel and i went to a slow food gainesville event that doubled as a pizza party. frank, the owner of blue highway pizza (go! one of the top 3 places to go for pizza in gainesville) taught a mini-class on pizza making and we all gorged ourselves on pizza, flat bread, and desserts that we pot lucked.

for this occasion, i made

pizza red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.

the red velvet cake represents the sauce and the cream cheese frosting was colored to look like cheese and toppings on thee pizza (frosting crust, icing pepperoni, and green sugar sprinkle oregano).

we were in a hurry so i dressed up a regular box of red velvet cake.

mixing the ingredients went from this...

to this...

next, time for crust (a job for a steady hand)...

and pepperoni and slice marks (and a hint of oregano)...

and some clever maneuvering to get them to the event in one piece :)

ta da!
krista

cookies and cream cupcakes

one stiflingly hot day this summer, we decided to run errands.

we went to the market, made our purchases, although somehow along the way a box of newman-o's had made its way into our bags (i was initially blamed for it, though it isn't unheard of for me to put sweets in the cart without dan knowing. yes, just like a little kid). i assume that the lady behind us didn't put up the separator in time, but it was a pleasant surprise, nevertheless.

then, we went to the library so daniel could pick up a book he had reserved. it's not a far trek for us so we walked over, expecting to return with a find or two. about two hours and 20 books later, we were at home pouring over our respective finds. our selections speak volumes (no pun intended) of our various passions, projects, and recent obsessions.

dan brought home: the entire gardening section, from permaculture to vermiculture. a half dozen baking books (of the bread making variety). an archaeological architecture tome.

i (krista) brought home: a book on lingere construction. two subversive knitting books. the mummy congress. and about a half dozen baking books, several of which were solely dedicated to the cupcake.

from the aforementioned newman-o's and these books, was birthed the idea for these:

cookies and cream cupcakes

it's not a horribly original idea, but tasty regardless.

i whipped up a simple vanilla cake batter and added crushed newman-o's. i toyed with the idea of adding more crumbled cookies into the frosting, but i was scared of overkill. instead, i simply topped the little cream clouds of frosting with half an "o" and called it a day. considering cookies and cream is d's all time favorite ice cream (along with chocolate chip cookie dough. yes, just like a little kid), we had no trouble finishing these up quickly.

over and out
krista