If I had a penny for everything I love about you, I would have many pennies.

So... I decided to write a blog about baking.  In 344 days, Greg and I will be getting married and I will be a wife.  A wife!  Although I have many characteristics to be an outstanding wife, I am kind of lacking in the wife duty department.  I'm not very domestic.  I don't know how to cook or bake and I can be quite the messy person.  I decided that in the next year I am going to change all that so that when I officially become Greg's wife, I will actually be able to play the part... well.

I chose baking as the first skill I will acquire.  This should be no surprise to anyone seeing as though my favorite movie is Waitress and that I love desserts!  As of last weekend, I have become a cupcake baking fiend.  I made a yellow cupcake with chocolate chips, filled with raw chocolate chip cookie dough and frosted with chocolate chip cookie dough (I will write a separate entry for my experience with this later).  Since then all that has been on my mind is baking, running and wedding planning.

I decided that I will bake something every weekend and then write about the process and share the recipe on this blog.  I figure this would be a much easier way of keeping a baking cookbook than printing out all the recipes (especially when I combine different recipes).  Plus, I can upload pictures of what I'm doing and help give pointers for what worked for me, what didn't work for me, and what I might do to improve it.

Right now, most of the baking recipes will be cupcakes.  We will be making cupcakes for our wedding instead of having a traditional wedding cake and I think by testing out these different cupcakes we will be able to narrow down the perfect cupcake selection to serve our guests.

Like last week's cupcakes, I will probably make them and instead of keeping them all for myself, I will offer them to other people and deliver them to your door.  At the bottom of each entry I will try to let everyone know what I plan on making for the next weekend, so if you think you'll want to try it, let me know and I'll see about getting you some!

For tomorrow, well technically today, I will be baking two different types of cupcakes.  I will be baking a Smore cupcakes (graham cracker cupcake filled with marshmellow and pieces of hershey chocolate, frosted with dark chocolate with graham cracker crumbs sprinkled on top) and Boston Cream Pie cupcakes (yellow cupcakes filled with yellow custard with dark chocolate frosting).  I'm making these special cupcakes in honor of Tabatha's new promotion at work!  We're going to celebrate by going out to dinner and eating these cupcakes for dessert!  Yummy!

This will be the first time I ever make the cupcake from scratch and not from a box mix, and I'll also be making the dark chocolate frosting from scratch (I'm going to use the same frosting for both cupcakes).  Cross your fingers and hope they turn out well!

p.s. I bought yellow box cake mix and a container of dark chocolate frosting from the store just in case they don't turn out well.

p.p.s.  I will bake a dozen cupcakes of your choice for anyone who can tell me where "Easy Monica's Bakery" comes from.

Next weekends cupcakes will be:  Cookies and Cream Cheesecake cupcakes and Triple Vanilla Cupcakes (vanilla cupcakes with Golden Oreos and vanilla frosting)