I feel the NEED...the need for BAKING

So I am tired of being a student and VERY ready to bake all the time! I mean how CUTE are these cupcakes? I sit on the computer all day and look at recipes and come up with ideas to bake and then by the time I get home I just don't have the energy to bake anything! I should have gone to culinary school. Haha. Actually no, I wouldn't ever make it. I want to make Brent these golf cupcakes too! I am so excited for summer, I am hoping to have more time to bake. Also, Brent is out of town and because of that I don't get to cook. I don't get to cook once during the week in April, at least when he is home over the weekend's I can cook. Even for lunch I have started cooking smaller things. Like Sunday we were doing yard work and painting all day and I made us these chcicken strips! Mmmmm they were good, super easy too! Just sprayed a pan with cooking spray, sprinkled red pepper flakes, garlic powder,minced garlic, and grated colby cheese on it. Oh my gosh I loved them. I belong in the kitchen.
♥Andrea

I want these

How cute and awesome are these?! I really want to get them, but they are almost too cute to put in my ears! I read some comments about them on the website I found them on and I guess they aren't available in North America yet. Sad. I will definitely be the first to buy them though!! In other news....

I bought What's New Cupcake!!!



I have the first cookbook by the same authors, Hello Cupcake..I have to say What's New Cupcake looks so fun! I can't wait to dig in and start baking things out of it. There is something that looks so cute and you melt jolly ranchers in a metal shaped cookie cutter and it is just too cute! I am going to do that this week. I am going to my Kitchens store in the mall because they have a massive amount of metal cookie cutters, I just don't know what shape yet.

Lastly, I made Brent his chocolate cupcakes filled with cheesecake! OH MY GOSH! They were absolutely to die for!!! PLEASE check out the recipe from www.visionsofsugarplums.com
Now that I am getting married and now my cousin is getting married one month before me I can't eat cupcakes, just make them. Until my next post...
♥ Andrea

Not too good at this

So I have officially spent an hour and a half learning how to use blogger better. I mean I know how to post a blog and change the font colors, but this html stuff is beyond me. I don't understand how to make links on my page, how people have on the side you can click a picture and it leads you to where the recipe is on their blog. I hope to learn all of that stuff, but I don't know. When myspace was the it social networking site I had a better understanding of html, but now that it has been a few years since then I didn't retain any of it. Oh well, at least I still have the kitchen to cook and bake in. I plan on baking tomorrow. Emily from visionsofsugarplums.com has a cupcake recipe I am dying to try. A chocolate cupcake with a cheesecake filling, I hope it goes well! They are for Brent's birthday. His birthday was yesterday, but he is out of town for work all week so we are celebrating this weekend. I know I don't have any followers yet...BUT when I do if you have any html advice PLEASE let me know! Thanks ♥Andrea