raindrops falling on my head

looks like it's going to be another lazy weekend for me. this week at work was super busy and all i want to do is sleep. it doesn't help that it's been kind of gloomy outside this week and it actually rained last night. unfortunately my car was under a tree and the free carwash i'd hoped for didn't really work. oh well. yesterday there was a big bake sale at work to raise money to send people to mississippi to help rebuild houses for katrina victims. a bunch of people from my company went for about a week last year and even more people want to go this year. so we had a bake sale to raise money for airfare. for some reason, i went a big overboard and decided to make 3 things. one was the awesome banana pudding from nyc's magnolia bakery (recipe found in this book) which didn't require any actual baking and two kinds of cupcakes. since my oven has no temperature control (just off or fiery inferno), my friend and fellow bake sale volunteer was kind enough to let me use her oven.



these are cupcakes made from a devil's food mix (really moist and tasty) and i made some peanut butter frosting to go on top and then added mini peanut butter cups from trader joes as a garnish. if you haven't had these peanut butter cups, you should get some right away because they are so tasty and very addictive. i don't usually make my own frosting (can's good enough for me) but i thought the peanut butter would be fun. i used used this recipe i found on supereggplant and made 1 1/2 portions of it to frost all of the cupcakes.



these are called black bottom cupcakes and they are also from the magnolia cookbook. they are basically a really dense chocolate cupcake with a cream cheese and chocolate chip topping that is baked on the cake (not frosted). they were good but very rich. they were all a sucess. the pudding went really fast, though. if we do another bake sale i might just make two batches of that instead of baking since it's pretty easy and no oven involved.

i have finished pictures of the big ass striped raglan hat but i'll post it tomorrow. off to find something for dinner. have a great weekend, everyone!