A pink cupcake day (thank you Dr. Oetker)

So....yesterday was a snow day.

We'd already done the 8:30 am "playing diggers in the snow" thing.

Next on the agenda...

cupcakes :)

I think every day should be a cupcake day, personally.

So....since we had limited time while Finn was napping, we pulled out a trusty Dr. Oetker Organic Vanilla cake mix.

If you haven't tried this....I would recommend you do. In my opinion, it's the best, most home-made tasting, moist cake mix out there.

My little secret...add a good dollop (sort of like a heaping tablespoon) of mayo or sour cream to the mix. Moist and delicious every time :)

And don't bake it as long as it says on the box. For mini cupcakes, I find that 13-14 minutes is perfect. For regular sized cupcakes, 18-19 minutes is good. Not the 20-25 that they suggest.

Now....we all know that the icing makes the cake, right?

Well.....there's nothing quite like a frothy, whippy, vanilla raspberry frosting! :)

I don't use a recipe for icing generally, but it went something like this:

3 cups icing sugar

1/4 cup butter

1 tsp vanilla

1 tbsp water

1 tbsp organic raspberry jam

Oh myyy.....it was gooood!

I actually originally added the raspberry jam because Toby had requested pink icing, and I was avoiding food colouring (it doesn't agree with him).

Just look at this little man....icing away like a pro ;)

He said "I'm the "sprinkler", mom, so you don't have to worry about sprinkling...I'm so good at it" ;)

hehe

I can just see it on his resume...."Excellent cupcake sprinkling skills"

I sure know how to raise 'em ;) Good skills and all!

And there they are....the "sprinkles"..

and yes....they're organic and coloured with beet juice and the  like. 

There is such a thing....can you believe it?

Aren't they just so darn cute? :)

Yep....so cute I ate 4 right away....

and then about 6 more this morning.

Oh dear.

I thought...well, there's eggs in them, right? ;)

And then little Finny spotted them.

"cooookie...coookie" (his new word after Christmas)

Not cookie, Finny, but close enough.

So, like any self-respecting, organic-freak mother...

I licked the icing off and handed him a cupcake.

I know.

I know.

awful mother.

Someone please come over and eat the rest for me!

I simply don't have it in me to resist them.