February 13th, 2011

Sundays are always strange when you have a show in the middle of the day.  It was kind of nice to be up for the day, but had to suffer those consequences when I had work that night.

Random thought to put in this bloggety blog.  You know what I hate?  When you get a drink like an Icee or a smoothie and you can't get the drink off the bottom.  Try as you might all you can do is move the straw around and attempt to suck up what you can in tiny bits. It's frustrating, but so worth the effort at the same time.

Anywhos, back to my day.  I decided to do some baking in time for Valentine's Day. And the strangest thing happened when I tried to crack my egg.

I'm really not sure how it didn't break open all the way.  The shell kept flaking off but I had to crack the other side of the egg in order for it to get open.  It was strange.  I have never seen an egg do that in my years of cracking eggs.

I decided to make red velvet cake in honor of the whole red thing with Valentine's day.  When I saw the mix first I was confused about how it was brown.  I didn't understand how it became red...until! I added some liquid and bam! The red became to appear! I'm so easily amused, but I have never made red velvet cake before....

I have also never used one of these silicon pans.  To be honest they kind of scare me.  I'm just unsure how a floppy pan is gonna cook something.  While it was cooking it kind of let off a very weird smell.  I didn't like that smell, to say the least.  I'm just hoping that it doesn't cook into the cake and make it taste strange as well. Also, if I choose to use it again...doesn't make that smell again.

BUT, if the cake tastes funny I used some of the mix to make some beautiful cupcakes!  I haven't used my single cupcake/muffin glasses before, so that was a new experience for me as well.

They loooooook soooooooo perdy!  Yum!

I topped off the cupcakes with some cream cheese frosting that I dyed pink with food coloring.  I wanted them to be dark red but I couldn't get them dark enough.  Oh well!  They taste fantastic.  In case you wanted to know.  I have not tasted the cake yet though.  Soooooo I can't tell you what it tastes like.

I will show you a picture of the cake tomorrow for Valentine's Day. : )