hrrrmm

Since I've had le bebe, it's been a little hectic (shocking, I know)..Actually I digress - I LITERALLY thought that after the baby was born while I was home on maternity leave, I'd be able to do things. Things like clean out the garage, bake cookies, go on lunches with my other friends with babies, go on walks at the beach, etc etc. I barely made it to the shower every OTHER day. I didn't know how much of a blessing it would be to have my mom come stay with me for a few days. Even when you don't always get along with your mom like the other siblings do, no one does it like your own mom. She waited on me hand and foot. Did my laundry. Made me breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. She practically had an iv of water going in my arm. She went grocery shopping for me, bought me diapers, made a Target run.. Geez... it was the good life!

Anyhoooooooo.... mom and sister and the tanker (stepdad) were back out for a few days and I was ready to get my bake on. I was going to try my hand (for a 2nd time) at cupcake pops, but the oven suddenly went on the fritz. It turned off and started flashing an F3 error. The oven is I'm sure circa 1972 but if you ask mom and tanker it's practically brand new. First words out of sister's mouth? "How OLD is that thing???" Well, the magic fingers of Tank made the oven turn back on and supposedly heat up to the proper temp. The cake looked ummmmmmmm......less than normal. We kept wondering if that thing was done (which I've never had to 'wonder' about before)so eventually we just took it out. It was really crispy on the edges. Not as a cake should be. But I forged ahead and completed the steps I followed on Bakerella http://www.bakerella.com/make-your-cupcakes-pop/ but I made a few adjustments to the baking instructions thanks to Sara over at Sweet Somethings http://skeddy.blogspot.com/

My cupcake pops did not turn out like they did on Bakerella. Here is a picture of sister and me and our disappointment.


I went on to try and make chocolate chip cookies for the hubby since it was his birthday. Tanker thought the CAKE was for the hubby's birthday, but noooooooo why would I make a CAKE for him? doy - my brain is seriously failing these days post bebe. The cookies turned out fine. They weren't delicious like the last time I made them and ate the whole batch though. Hopefully I can get the magical Sears man out to fix the oven so I can get back to being a baking fool.