The Lone Cupcake...Hi Ho Cheerio Away!

Well looks like I've been neglecting my blog for a while, and I have...But I'm back. I have been making lots of cupcakes, as usual, but I have not been able to eat any of them because of the wack diet I am on right now. Darn it! Last night I had the fun assignment of making my dad some delicious cupcakes for a business meeting he had this morning. I made these very light and fluffy lemon cupcakes with a lemon cream cheese frosting. They looked great, and my dad said they were (he tested one for me.) Unfortunately I did not get a tatste.

I was joking with my dad about that phrase "Never trust a skinny cook!", but these days I am looking just a little too trustworthy...if you catch my drift. Oh well, I'm working on it.

Anyways, my last "weird" flavor of cupcakes were these wonderful strawberry daquiri cupcakes. My friends Thomas and Krissy were having a cookout in thier backyard and it seemed like the perfect accompaniment to the occasion. Although they were a little more dense than I would have liked, everyone really enjoyed them. The rum flavor really made them taste just like the drink.

This is one of the little treats hangin' out on the picnic table at the cookout. My friend Sara's shirt is the backdrop...yep we're creative! Sorry it's not a very good picture... like most of mine, it was taken on a camera phone.

Later that evening, we all decided to venture out to a local bar to see what kind of trouble we could get into. As with most occasions when I make cupcakes to take somewhere, there were several left over. I decided that I would just take them out with us and give them away at the bar. I always make lots of friends when I do that! So I was successful in giving all of them away except one little cupcake that we later named "The Lone Cupcake." It was so sad. No one wanted her. Well, after tossing back a few cocktails, my friend decided that she would make little sign for it and just leave it on the bar to see if anyone would like her. Here is the cupcake sitting and waiting for someone to snatch her up...

Yes, a little inapproriate, but hilarious just the same. And it worked. Not long after we abandoned her she was gone.

If anyone would like the recipe to either flavors (Lemon or Strawberry Daquiri), let me know.