Today was Eva’s eighth birthday. She had a Disney Descendants themed party where her friends and cousins came over and they watched the movie together and enjoyed many candy treats like the kids in the movie. Allison, Eva and Andrew separated the different colored candies into containers according to the colors for each of the four characters. They did a really nice job of it, too. Allison then decorated a couple dozen cupcakes for each of the characters as well. It was a more low key birthday than last year’s monster hunt but a lot of work none-the-less. Continue reading Happy 8th Birthday, Eva!→
Have you ever seen something on Facebook that someone made and figure that you could follow those easy steps and do it yourself? I saw a video of someone who made brownie bowls by placing a cupcake pan on top of another cupcake pan. So, I tried it. I greased the pans like crazy and they should have come apart with no problem but there were tons of problems. First of all, I must have put too much batter in the cupcake tin. The batter overflowed and dripped onto the bottom of the oven. I scooped it out with the grilling spatula but knocked some underneath and it caught fire. I shut off the oven so it would burn out and then started it back up. When the brownies were finished I figured I’d let them cool a bit before separating them. That was a mistake because I waited too long and while they would pop out of the bottom cupcake tray they would not come off the bottom of the top tray. I managed to mangle them all and we ate the crumbs with our ice cream. It still tasted good, but I would have liked to have gotten this right.
