Lemon Cupcakes...

Last night I made Lemon Cupcakes w/Strawberry Buttercream and candied lemon slices for the BF to take to his last class (It made me think of 3rd grade when you would take cupcakes to school to celebrate your birthday) and lets just say it was quite the endeavor. I love baking and I remember in the movie Julia/Julie the Julie chick made this comment about how she loves baking after a terrible day of work, because the principle of baking is if you mix the right things the right way, you will get a perfection, and I totally agree!!

Last night was not perfection for me, I decided to be adventurous and make candied lemon slices for the fist time to dress up the cupcakes, and it was a disaster. I set up the sugar and water and let it start boiling, placed my sliced lemon slices in the pan and guess what I got a burnt sticky mess. It was terrible, my whole kitchen smelled like burnt lemons. Then after I had scooped all my batter into the pans and was about to place them in the oven, I looked over and guess what I say…the damn egg whites. I had totally forgot to put them in the cake, so I had to scrape everything out of the pan and remix it.

The only thing that came out with no problems was the Swiss Buttercream….oh lovely Swiss Buttercream how I love thee. That is the best F-ING Frosting EVER! It’s so smooth and creamy and reminds me of ice cream, and is basically heaven in a bowl. If you have never tried this route before, I highly recommend it, as you will never go back to that crappy powder sugar frosting ever again.

It was so late and I was tired and ready to be done, so the cupcakes didn’t quite come out like I had planned. I took few pictures with the kiss-ass camera the BF bought me a few months back, which I am told everyday I never use. (yes, I am a bad GF)

Hopefully with time I can master my photography skills and become as AWESOME as Little Miss Baker….check out her blog here.

Weekend Recap...

So, over the weekend I came to the conclusion that my BF might have his own addiction. After all his trash talking about my “Made for TV” stuff, I saw him in full action. Over the weekend we decided to go to the mall to do some shopping, for his graduation. Well we go into Steve Madden and the boy loses his mind. I turn my back and he has 4 pair of shoes already picked out to try on, it was quite funny. After trying on several pair, we left with him getting 2 new pair of shoes, and me getting the laugh of a lifetime. He keeps blaming me that I turned him into a shopping monster…Nice Try Buddy!!

Now, I also did some shopping and got one of the coolest things ever. For weeks I’ve been talking about finding an old Nintendo game system, so we can have some Super Mario Bros all-nighters. Well walking in the mall, one of the kiosks caught my eye. After dodging being sprayed and moisturized from several other kiosks I made my way over to the Holy Grail! Its this game controller that has old school games stored inside of it. It has all the classic, Super Mario, Pac Man and Tetris. I asked the sales guy how many games were in the system and he said 65 and it was only $25.00 well worth it.

We get the game system home, and there are way more than 65 games more like 6500. There are all types of crazy games stored in this thing, but no instructions. We played Mario for about 30 minutes and soon realized how terrible we were (I guess its not like riding a bike) then my ADD kicked in and I was over the game and ready to move on.

Also, went and saw The Perfect Getaway (which we figured out the "Twist" in the first 15 mins) All, I have to say is When did it ever become a good idea to pick up strangers, did I miss that memo? and Julie/Julia ( a good movie but hella long....like 2.5 hours long).

Oh some more exciting news… along with my DollFace venture, I also purchased the domain name I Bleed Pink. I am currently working on a project with some local artist here in Austin to have them commissioned to do their interpretations of Pin-Up’s for T-shirt designs. You all know I love my Pin-Up’s and thing this is a great way to show my love.

Right now everything is in the beginning stages (but you will be the first to see the completed designs) but I hope to have them ready to sell by next month! I plan to keep it all updated on the Dollface blog .

I know your thinking, this chick must be crazy two new businesses in one month, but I have to tell you. When I was growing up, I never thought about being a doctor or lawyer, I just thought about being a CEO of my own company. I can remember being about 5 and having my little desk set up like an office and even carrying around a suitcase (Yes, I was a NERD...still am..who CARES!!) I even begged my mom for a typewriter, so I could write up my letters and such. I have never liked working for anyone, and I knew way back then, I wanted to take this world by STORM and new its time.

TGIF...

Last night I made a Strawberry and Chocolate Birthday cake, it came out pretty Fantastic.

Not much going on school is out for the two weeks (YAY) and I am thinking tonight a friend and I will do dinner and a movie…right now its looking like the " The Collector".

I hope everyone has an Great Weekend. I am working on a few things, so I hope on Monday I have some more exciting news to share.

And I leave you with some nice Eye Candy….

(YUM-O)

I am cool...Right?

Have you ever had someone say something to you, and after you think about their comment, you start to think was that a compliment or did I just get slapped in the face. Well I was having a convo with this guy I work with about tattoos and piercings and he makes the following comment to me:

“Well looking at you, I can see you’re a little Punk Rock, but not in a hardcore way, more of a Hannah Montana or Avril Lavigne way”.

He walked away, I just stood there confused. I mean don’t get me wrong I love me some Hannah/Miley, but I am still processing if this was a compliment or a body slam to my ego. I mean I thought I was a little cooler than that…has it all been in my mind…LOL!!

New Blog...

So, I started a separate blog that will be strictly about my trials and tribulations of starting this new business. You can check it out here. Based off some of the comments I thought it would be a neat idea to chronicle this whole process, as it might be useful for others out there thinking about or doing the same thing. Plus its place that I can BLAB…BLAB…BLAB!!

Once the site is complete, there will be another blog that will be strictly for business purposes. If you can’t tell I heart blogs!!

Also, I wanted to thank everyone for their TUBULAR (see I found a new word, I am bringing it back old school) words of encouragement, you guys are so G-R-E-A-T!!

Exciting News...

I've been dying to share this with you guys, and now the project is too a point that I can let it all out. I've decided to start my own business (YAY) . I've always had a love for event planning and my passion for baking has just grown in the last few years, so my new company will be a combo of the two. This is something I've been planning for awhile, and I just wanted to make sure it was a great reflection of Miss Kitty!

The name of the company is DollFace Delights, and I am just in love with the whole concept. I hired an AWESOME (I've noticed I use this word about a million times a day...think it might be time to find a new adjective) team to create the logo and web page for me. I basically told them all the crap from my head and they created to perfection.

I’ve attached a copy of the logo and a rough cut of the website. I can’t wait until its all finished and ready to launch.

I wanted the logo to reflect my love of Pin-Up's, I think they did an AWESOME job (dammit, I did it again)

This is the photo of me they used to create the logo.

The rough cut of the Website.

So, there it is my super exciting news. I've gotten pretty postive feedback from my friends and family... my mother made the comment "Why are the boobs so big", duh Mother, they had to make it accurate...LOL!! Plus, I wanted my company to be a reflection of me and I am not a cookie cutter girl. I am fun, sassy, loud and a Hot Mama!!

As soon as the website is fully complated I will let you know!

I had such and AWESOME weekend. Friday night was spent baking and crafting like a mad woman (and the help of two amazing people).

(My little sweat shop)

I decided for the contest I would do:

Vanilla Entry: Vanilla Cake infused with fresh Peach Puree and a Fresh Peach Buttercream

Freestyle Entry: Banana cake swirled with Nutella and a Nutella Buttercream and a little candy banana on top

Well, intially for the Nutella cupcakes, I planned to make chocolate monkeys for the cupcakes, but the BF and I had a chocolate meltdown and things didn't work out as I had planned. So, I started browsing the web and came up with a new game plan. We made custom cupcake wrappers, to personalize my cupcakes. They came out super cute ( and it might lead to something else after seeing the finshed product) and were exactley what I wanted for my cupcakes.

Saturday we were up super early finalizing up everything and off we went. We got to the event location and things were really hustling around, I couldn't believe all the people I saw walking in with their own cupcake entries. I got so nervous, because these entries looked great. Well the event started and their was a ton of people there (I heard at one point, over 1000 people were in attendance) and alot of waiting. After much waiting we got the results...I won!!! I ended up winning:

Best Amateur Freestyle and Best Amatuer!!

(Photo Courtsey of John of Austin)

Can you F-ing believe it, I was so stoked, because they were a ton of great entries. I got a medal and a cute trophy, and I did an awesome dance!!

I took a ton of pictures, and I thought it would be easier to just post them on my Flickr page, so check them out here.