Peer pressured into blogging :)

So here we go. We'll see how and/or if this will work. I will say I was definitely peer pressured into this by a few of my running (and apparantly very active blogging :) buddies, who told me I need to start blogging about cupcakes - since as it is well known I might just have a little cupcake problem :)

In any case, suppose I will start with a quick introduction - as  you can probably tell by the title - I absolutely love both running and cupcaking, so for the most part that will be what the blog is about. When not running or baking, I am a working mom with an amazing husband of 2+ years an absolutely adorable (of course I'm somewhat biased) little 5 mo old boy - who has taken over my world to say the least.

Okay - so enough about me for now :) time for a few cupcakes!! Since Easter was this weekend...as to be expected we'll have to start with a few bunny, Easter Egg, and Easter Basket cupcakes!!! Not my best batter, I will admit, but I definitely enjoyed spending Easter morning chatting with the little guy and decorating these ones for Easter Brunch!



The baskets were inspired by one of my friends at work - and we actually shared a bag of multi-colored twizzlers for the handle. I have yet to see how hers turned out, but I am sure they were super cute! The eggs were not planned, but as I was playing around Sunday morning decided that decorating "eggs" sounded like the fun Eastery way to go. And the bunnies are straight from the Disney Family Fun website: http://familyfun.go.com/ one of my favorite go-to site for cupcake inspirations - check it out!!! :)

Also, this weekend, a few of my Twilight addicted friends and I had a New Moon Movie night! As the movie hit the theaters right after my son was born, I never had the chance to see it. Thus, we had a girls night complete with quesadilla, chips and guac as well as, of course, Twilight inspired cupcakes!




The Twilight cupcake "stickers" I ordered online somewhere and the werewolf cupcakes were inspired by a picture on another fun cupcake site I have recently found http://www.easycupcakes.com/. Pretty fun - though the werewolfs in the movie were definitely MUCH better looking (hehe)! These were yellow butter batter cakes with chocolate frosting - which is not one of my strengths as I don't like chocolate so I steer away from making chocolate icing as much as possible - but as it was requested by the March birthday girl in the group - gave it a go for her! Word is it turned out pretty good - at least I didn't get any complaints about it!

Okay - think that's all for my first blog post. Will do my best to keep this updated when I find time or have new and exciting cupcakes or running stories :) to share!