Baking Craziness

Some how and I can’t current recollect how at this point, Amanda and I got talked into baking stuff for the DMDC Holiday Craft Fair. Evidently the woman who made jumbo cupcakes each year left DMDC and people were very concerned there wouldn’t be cupcakes to buy. This started our little two week adventure. We spent a week planning what we would make and how to divide it up and then another week actually baking and getting stuff together. Dan, Amanda’s husband, even came up with a really cool logo for stickers we were putting on the packaging. The menu consisted of Red Velvet, Gingerbread, and Mocha Chocolate cupcakes and Peanut butter chocolate chip banana bread, Lemon Almond bread, Apple Spice bread (with and without walnuts), and Pumpkin zucchini bread (with and without pecans). The Red Velvet had white chocolate cream cheese frosting and the other two had this amazing Swiss butter cream frosting that Amanda makes (it takes like an hour at least to make it, but so worth it). Amanda also made these really cute cake toppers to put on some of the cupcakes out of royal icing. Everything looked so professional. We had boxes of three cupcakes, one of each flavor, that we were selling for the highest price of all our baked goods.

Unfortunately when we were setting up the table, the tray of the boxed cupcakes got bumped and they all fell on the floor. We were able to save most of them, but the frosting was either gone or really messed up. So our most expensive item quickly became our cheapest. Amanda was so upset that I quickly calmed down and tried to help her calm down. The joys of being a Libra – I take on the opposite emotion of the person I’m with in order to maintain balance. Had Amanda not been so upset I’m sure I would have been in tears. That was a lot of time and effort down the toilet.
But everyone loved our stuff (except my lemon almond bread – which by the way my Dad loves) and all and all it was a fun time and we may have even broke even on the money front.