Today: Cupcakes. Tomorrow: Hangover

okay, well not really a hangover. they actually won't be ready until tomorrow, unless i get bored enough today and have time before work, but most likely not.

i am kind of putting these together while i am typing this. no, not like that. baking, typing, cooling, typing, putting jello together....etc. you get it. there's no way i would want to dump jello all over my laptop. i would die. like, table flip everything, and then curl up in the corner and die for breaking a 6 month old laptop. i am so glad to finally have one again, since my previous one was 8 years old and on it's last legs, which also makes me sad....but no sadness right now. there are jello shot cupcakes in the making in my home at this very moment! ☺

...and breathe carolina. i forget how much i like them. usually i have my "cars" station on pandora (and was totally jamming out to every bon jovi song that came on while i was making my tea party treats....zero f*cks given), or "panic at the disco," but not today....yet.

so these cupcakes called for a vanilla cupcake, of course. i believe i posted the link from pinterest a couple posts ago for the whole jello shot cupcake thing. well, they used a box cake in theirs, and i will not use a box cake. it's just not the same. i turned on my laptop this morning, and in one of the little app boxes on my home screen, there was a recipe for some blackberry and cream cupcakes. i bet you're thinking one of several things: a) that sounds delicious, b) why would you ruin a perfectly good cupcake with booze?!, c) just get on with it already!.....i would like to make the actual blackberry cupcakes someday. but in the meantime, anything good about them is getting cancelled out by cake vodka! yay!

the original recipe called for grape, which i think would be super awesome, but in the interest of everyone else, i think strawberry is pretty universal. rule of food: anything pink is usually delicious.

these look and smell super delicious!! ♥♥♥

instead of blackberry and cream, strawberry and cream....and booze. i think that's a yes!! AND they totally have a cream cheese icing! topped with a little jello cube (hence the extra pan of jello above). i kind of have half of the recipe going, since i don't know if two dozen would be too many. they are for a friend's 21st birthday that i work with. i feel so old. i'm pretty sure he was 16 when i started at the restaurant. *tear* they grow up so fast! right after his birthday he had heart surgery, so i promised treats when he came back. anyway, if a dozen is not enough....i can try a different flavor next time! i bet i could do orange, like a creamsicle....i have all these random vodka flavors. key lime whipped? i could do a key lime cupcake/shooter combo. ohhh baby!!

well, i can't really prep them too far ahead of time since i have to wait for the jello. now i am just wondering what to eat today. i am thinking of some buffalo chicken. that sounds pretty tasty. i wanted to make this buffalo chicken mac and cheese, but i don't have enough cheese. maybe next time. i get paid a little bit tomorrow, it can be next week's lunch.

i am going to leave this post somewhat short today. i am starving now, and i just keep thinking about food. it is getting nice again. i love how the weather was like 80 on sunday and monday, and then tuesday it was 30 and snowed all day. all four seasons in one week. thanks new york. you can stay in the 50's and 60's from now on. no more of this crap.

thanks for reading! ☺