June 14 is Flag Day. It is the day where the U.S. officially decided to adopt the flag that we still fly today (although it had less stars on it then). I made these red, white and blue cupcakes to celebrate and we had a special F.H.E. on the flag and what it means, how we should show our respect to it and a little bit of it's history.
The cupcakes turned out cute...but not my favorite to eat. I am desperate to find a good cupcake recipe. I don't really love the taste of the cake mix cupcakes. I want to make some like the gourmet cupcakes I am such a sucker for...any one have a good cupcake recipe, like from scratch?
I love how cute they turned out. Hopefully the boys learned something about patriotism today.
5 comments:
Hey Em- if you're looking for some fun cupcakes to try, check out Mindy's blog! She has posted some good ones, s'mores flavor, root beer, etc. I haven't made any of them, but I've tasted them and they are VERY good. Some fun flavors! carrollfamily6.blogspot.com
Yours are sure cute though!
Mel
I have a link on my blog for My Best Bites and they always have different cupcake recipes you can try. Most of them use a cake mix but you add stuff to it to make it better. I haven't tried any of them yet, but want to someday. Just thought I would let you know. You are so cute and creative, I always love to see what you are doing with your kids.
Hey! I was gifted an amazing cupcake cookbook from Williams Sonoma on my birthday last year and it is my favorite book on the planet. I will have to bring it for you to thumb through next time we do lunch (ahem, soon please?) and you can see if you would want to get it.
EVERYTHING is from scratch and everything has b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l presentation. And the frosting? Oh be still my heart. Everyone I know has flipped over anything I've made from this book. It is that good. The photography is awesome too - so can't really be beat!
On another note, I was thinking you should bring your boys down for an entire afternoon and we can just have a backyard play day. The boys can picnic, and swim, and slip n' slide, and catch bugs, and just knock themselves out while we catch up for an afternoon!
Whaddyah think? ;)
Some other fun cupcake books are Hello, Cupcake! and What's New Cupcake by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. They take a little bit of time, but the look so cute when they are finished.
Thanks guys I am excited to try some of these out! I definitely need the cupcake cookbooks.
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