Well, it's Wednesday but feels like Thursday. This is totally going to screw me up. I am so ready for the weekend! My house is slowly but surely getting back into shape again. And our pool is clean...you should have seen it after the winter. I swear it looked like a swamp. That was the worst it ever looked. We have been very lucky after each winter that it still looks good when we open it. This year...UGH..I even had ducks swimming around in it. We think they were going to try and make a home there. The poor dog would just circle the pool trying to get to the ducks - he hates water so he would not dare jump in. But happy to say after much cleaning and draining the pool looks good again and in perfect time it is going to be in the 90's this weekend.
I made cupcakes recently and I tried the new Duncan Hines Frosting Creations. MJ loves cinnamon rolls so when I saw a commercial for this frosting mix and one of the flavors was cinnamon roll I had to try it. At the same time I found a recipe for cooked frosting. I have been trying to find a recipe for homemade frosting that doesn't consist of lard. So I made a batch of cupcakes (just used a Pillsbury box) and did half of them in cinnamon roll frosting and the other half in the cooked frosting. Needless to say both were hits!!!! Here are pictures of my creations....
This top batch is the cinnamon roll frosting.
The bottom row is the cooked frosting. Tasted like whipped cream.
I even got the 7yr old seal of approval - my great-nephew was spending the weekend with us and I let him and our neighbor's two boys who are 6 & 4 years old have one of each frosting and I was informed that "These are the best cupcakes EVER". Always a good idea to have guinea pigs around when trying something new. Oh, yea MJ liked the cinnamon frosting ones and J liked the cooked frosting ones.
Enjoy the rest of the day!
Lulu
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