Thursday, June 24, 2010

Every morning deserves a great cup of coffee!


Or at least a cupcake of coffee...yummm caffiene and sugar!

Last Friday, I started the day with an AWESOME run. We had a break in the heat wave and it was relatively cool and humidity was low. Unfortunately I didn't have anyone to run with so despite wanting to stay in bed, I forced myself out the door planning just to run my usual quick 4 to just get the miles in before work - however I was pleasantly surprised with how great it felt to run - and ended up doing about 6.5ish. And had I not had to get myself to work for an early meeting I may have actually had my first long run of my marathon training (oh well that will have to wait for another day :) It just felt so good to be out in the early morning enjoying the sunshine and blue skies of the beautiful day to come.

For some reason, while enjoying the peace and quiet of the run, I found myself thinking about how excited I was to have my morning cup of coffee when I got back. I am essentially addicted to Dunkin Donuts Hazlenut coffee, so after being out of it for most of the week, I finally had time to stock up at DD's on the way to work Thursday, so I was super excited for my morning fix on Friday. It's funny I think I enjoy coffee even more nowafter being pregnant last year than before. I remember wondering while I was pregnant if I was missing coffee (not that I couldn't drink coffee it just didn't taste good) or red-wine more and I have since realized the answer is definitely coffee :) In any case, it is a part of my morning that I definitely look forward to every day,whether I end up drinking it on my way to work sitting in traffic or during my first hour of checking emails and getting things started for the day, it always seems to make my day start off on a positive note!
To that end, made these cupcakes a few weeks ago for the SR running club annivesary breakfast. And yes, they are frosted with Dunkin Donuts Hazelnut flavored coffee icing - what could be better cupcakes and coffee, right ?! :-) The cupcakes are just basic chocolate and vanilla - but the coffee icing definitely made them a special treat. And just for fun I topped them with chocolate hazelnut straws I grabbed at Costco for just this kind of cupcake! Not the typical morning treat, but think they still went over pretty well!

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Every morning deserves a great cup of coffee!

Or at least a cupcake of coffee...yummm caffiene and sugar!

Last Friday, I started the day with an AWESOME run. We had a break in the heat wave and it was relatively cool and humidity was low. Unfortunately I didn't have anyone to run with so despite wanting to stay in bed, I forced myself out the door planning just to run my usual quick 4 to just get the miles in before work - however I was pleasantly surprised with how great it felt to run - and ended up doing about 6.5ish. And had I not had to get myself to work for an early meeting I may have actually had my first long run of my marathon training (oh well that will have to wait for another day :) It just felt so good to be out in the early morning enjoying the sunshine and blue skies of the beautiful day to come.

For some reason, while enjoying the peace and quiet of the run, I found myself thinking about how excited I was to have my morning cup of coffee when I got back. I am essentially addicted to Dunkin Donuts Hazlenut coffee, so after being out of it for most of the week, I finally had time to stock up at DD's on the way to work Thursday, so I was super excited for my morning fix on Friday. It's funny I think I enjoy coffee even more nowafter being pregnant last year than before. I remember wondering while I was pregnant if I was missing coffee (not that I couldn't drink coffee it just didn't taste good) or red-wine more and I have since realized the answer is definitely coffee :) In any case, it is a part of my morning that I definitely look forward to every day,whether I end up drinking it on my way to work sitting in traffic or during my first hour of checking emails and getting things started for the day, it always seems to make my day start off on a positive note!
To that end, made these cupcakes a few weeks ago for the SR running club annivesary breakfast. And yes, they are frosted with Dunkin Donuts Hazelnut flavored coffee icing - what could be better cupcakes and coffee, right ?! :-) The cupcakes are just basic chocolate and vanilla - but the coffee icing definitely made them a special treat. And just for fun I topped them with chocolate hazelnut straws I grabbed at Costco for just this kind of cupcake! Not the typical morning treat, but think they still went over pretty well!

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