Pound Cake Cupcakes

I guess I can post some things I made while on my blogging hiatus.

These are soooooo good!! When you look at the ingredient list, you may think that these would be extraordinarily heavy cupcakes, but they aren't. I did use my KitchenAid mixer to mix them so that might have helped.

Ingredients

• 3 cups of flour
• 2 cups of sugar
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 6 large eggs
• 2 cups softened (not melted) butter
• 1/2 cup 2% milk
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cupcake liners in cupcake pan.

Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. (I put it all in my mixer bowl.) Add butter, milk, and vanilla to the dry ingredients. Stir until just mixed and then up the mixer speed to medium and mix for about four minutes. Make sure to scrape down the bowl before adding your eggs. Add eggs one at time and mix on low speed for about 30 seconds after eacg egg. Once all the eggs are in the batter, mix at medium speed for one minute. Batter will be thick and fluffy.

Spoon batter into cupcake liners until half full. Don't fill them any more than that or it will get messy!! Bake the cupcakes for about 20 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick, inserted into the center of the cupcake comes out clean. Cool the cupcakes completely in the cupcake pans. Makes about 40 cupcakes.

The Tentative Unofficial Xma$ Cookie List

• Black Forest crinkle cookies
• Inside out Almond Joy macaroons
• Pecan tassies
• Peanut butter biscotti
• Pecan turtle bars
• Snowballs
• Lemon bars
• Salted nut roll bars
• Peanut brittle
  
• Chocolate caramel cracker bars
• Double butter cup cookies
• Coconut macaroons
• Pecan pie squares

I feel like I'm missing some. I didn't pick my new cookie either. I was thinking about making peppermint patties, chocolate mint squares or buckeyes this year, but I don't know what direction I'll take. Any opinions or suggestions?

I miss blogging about food. I started my Masters degree in March and since then I have no time left to do much of anything. However, right now I'm taking a research class that has statistics in it. I'm completely lost with no hope of understanding so I've decided to not put much time into it. (But I have a 4.0 so far!!!!) Plus my yearly nightmare of frantic cookie baking will soon be here. Why not bitch and moan about it online? Misery should be spread around.

And next week is the Greek Festival!!! (I don't know what is up with their web page. I can't post a link.)

See last year's post and pics.

Time flies . . .

Well, Bike Week was a blast. It also was a month ago, so I'm not really sure what I've done since then. I started my master's degree in teaching technology. I got a cat, got bitten by the cat, no longer have the cat. Ummmmm . . . I know I've done more than that, but that's all that is coming to mind.

Food-wise
Judy and I ate at some chain seafood place. I wanna say the Fish Grill or something that sounds like that. I really wanna crucify the place so I'll have to get the name correct and post a scathing review. We also went to an herb festival so I picked up some mint, rosemary, a datil pepper, some catnip ( I guess I can give that away now), lemon balm, pineapple sage and some lavender.

Ooooooooh, a new gourmet deli/store, called Noah's Market, opened about 6 blocks from my place in Ormond Beach. (Don't judge them on their web site.) They have fresh cut meat, imports and microbrews, produce, about 15 different kinds of gelato, two different kinds or riceballs, cheeses, all kinds of desserts . . . I'm getting overstimulated just thinking about the place. I went in with my friend, Greg (aka Dufus), on Sunday. We got some wonderful rib eyes, tirimisu and coconut gelato, stuffed mushrooms, a Sicilian riceball, and an orzo pasta salad. The only thing that didn't thrill me was the stuffed mushrooms. The stuffing was really bready, if that's a word. Greg liked them, but he also drinks Bud Lite so I wouldn't say he necessarily has good taste. And he has been insinuating that my good taste is pretentious. I'm not pretentious. I just like expensive shit.

There is a big Italian Festival here on April 17. At least I think that's the date. Maybe I'll get drunk and make a jackass out of myself like at the Greek Festival.

BTW
While I was looking for a food snob graphic on Google, (typed in "food snob") I came across a picture of a guy screwing a rotisserie chicken. It's a sad world, isn't it?