Sweet Sixteen Cupcakes

My niece turned 16, on January 31, and her mom asked me to make some cupcakes for her celebration. She asked me if I could make some cupcakes with multi color frosting. Could I? Of course I can and I will make them super fun too. I had seem some pictures of multi colored cupcakes and had wanted to make them as well. So here was the perfect opportunity: Tie-dye cupcakes. So I made a regular cake, and divided the batter into 6 bowls and dyed each one a different color, pink, green, purple, yellow, blue, and orange. Filled the liners with spoonfuls of the different colors of batter and then baked them. They looked so cool even without the frosting. But of course, what is a cupcake without frosting, oh yeah, a muffin and there will be no muffins coming from my kitchen! So I made two batches of buttercream frosting and divided the frosting into 6 bowls and dyed each color. Oh and of course I have forgotten to mention that all of the mixing was done by my brand new Kitchenaid MIXER!!!!! Back to the cupcakes. So I striped a couple of bags with the different colors and gave it a multicolor frosting, which topped off the cupcakes perfectly. I was really proud of how they turned out, but most importantly my niece loved them.

The Winner is...

Thank you to all who voted for the future color of my Kitchenaid Mixer. Unfortunately, no one won, I picked a completely different color. And the winner is....Reef Blue!

It was a very hard decision, quite possibly one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make :) A few of the colors I really liked have been discontinued so that made the decision a little easier, but it was still frustrating to decide on a color only to find out that it had been discontinued. So now that I own my very own Reef Blue Kitchenaid Mixer, my cupcakes will be extra delicious, my cookies will not be flat, cancer will be cured, and war will be a thing of the past.

Kitchenaid Mixer Fiasco

Most people buy a Kitchenaid Mixer with the intent that it will be the last mixer they will ever need to purchase. In the past month, my wonderful husband has bought me 3 Kitchenaid Mixers; and will probably be buying one more for me before the month is over. Have I started a business where I need 4 mixers? Nope, I'm just picky, and it comes down to the fact that it wasn't the right color. So here's how it happened. My husband decided, and rightfully so, that I needed to own a Kitchenaid Mixer, so he purchased this nice pink mixer. Then he remembered that I had mentioned seeing a beautiful purple mixer online and decided to return the pink one and get me my favorite color. So he searched online, bought me a purple mixer, nicely wrapped it, and put it under the tree for me. So on Christmas Eve, I unwrapped my new mixer. While greatly loving the fact that I had become the proud owner of a Kitchenaid Mixer, I was hesitant to share with my husband, that it wasn't really the right color of purple, and that I had seen this great purple mixer on the JC Penny's website. So I finally told him, and he said that he had searched all over for a purple mixer, but this is the only one he could find. We looked at the JC Penny's website, and it was still there, my beautiful mixer.

Now I'm sure all my male readers are saying, "who cares, purple is purple." But that just isn't true. Anyways, my awesome husband decided that he would get this one for me because it was the color that I wanted. So he calls Penney's to purchase it, and finds out that this color was discontinued a couple of years ago. I'd now like to take this opportunity to blame JC Penney's for the whole Kitchenaid Mixer fiasco. If they had updated their website, none of this would have happened. Curses on them for getting my hopes up and then stomping them into the ground. So we decided to look online to see if any place still sold purple mixers. And we found a website that still had the perfect mixer, we purchased it, rejoiced, and then realized the huge mistake we had just made. The website offered appliances that run on 220 volts, and as I learned, United States' appliances run on 110 volts. So that left us with two options: 1. move to Europe, 2. cancel our order. I voted for the former, the husband voted for the latter; I didn't win. Fortunately, we were able to cancel the order without any problems, but now I'm left with no Kitchenaid Mixer, and no clue as to what color of mixer I should get. So if you are really bored, I'm now accepting color nominations, go to www.everythingkitchens.com , view their colors and then tell me which one I should get, but don't pick light pink or boysenberry, we don't want to stress the husband out anymore than I already have :)