Spaghetti for dessert?!? April Fool's!

If you don't have any tricks up your sleeve for April Fool's Day yet, have spaghetti for dessert!

Bake up some cupcakes (these are Martha Stewart's lemon cupcakes), then pipe some frosting on with a #5 tip if using a pastry bag to look like spaghetti. I added a little bit of cocoa powder and lemon food coloring to my frosting for the right color of cooked spaghetti.

Ice cream cones in winter

Wanna know what I miss? Baking!! Easing back into it, as I've a few pounds to lose, but I can't stay away, so I won't. It's a love of mine: to create something beautiful, delicious, and fun out of normal ingredients and objects. To not only look at a final product, but to taste it too, and to give it to those I care about. That's the best part.

So, what do you do when God gives you 70 degree weather in March in Minnesota??

Make ice cream cone pops!

Norah

Want to know what happened 2 days after my last post?

I had a baby. That's right, on 11/11/11! They say that brings good luck. Not sure if I believe in luck, but she sure is a sweet little thing. And luck is very well what she may need, with 3 older brothers competing for her attention, and basically wanting to wrestle with her already!

So, these last few months I've been adjusting to life as a homeschooling mom with 4 kids. It's taken me awhile to feel normal again (and my husband would interject here, saying I'm not quite normal yet). Normal enough. To do laundry, put food on the table, and not live in absolute filth anymore. Just partial filth. But anyway....