Baking for Pleasure

Inspired by Bakerella's awesome blog and her cake pops, this was Sunday's adventure:

Cake balls (cake mixed with frosting, formed into little balls, dipped in chocolate, topped with sprinkles. Whew!)

Looking super cute in their little to-go boxes (one for the babysitter, the other for the dogwalker who let Dina & Wendy in when Dina locked herself out of the house!).

The only thing is that the cake balls are pretty sweet. After all, it's cake, mixed with frosting, then dipped in chocolate! As Dina's husband said "Don't let the kids have too many of those. They're like speed balls."

So the kids actually didn't get any (yet). But they did get some whole wheat banana muffins!

Baking for Pleasure

Some of the best childhood memories are of family traditions. Maybe it was game night every Friday night. Or maybe it was Meatloaf Monday (thankfully, not a tradition in either of our households). In Dina's house, there's Pancake Saturdays (there also used to be Mango Shake Sundays until Dina realized that was more of a gift to her, than her children).

But we think that these traditions are pretty cool, so we're toying with the idea of Kupcake Sunday for our families. That seems like just the stuff that memories are made from, don't you think? And even though we spend our days making kookies, decorating, and trying (and trying and trying and trying) to perfect our kookie techniques, we still want our families to have fun baking memories.

Here's the first installment of Kupcake Sunday at Dina's house: Fruit Ring Kupcakes (Fruit Rings = organic 365 brand from Whole Foods), adapted from Froot Loop Cupcakes.

These look little because they are minis.

Little Fruit Ring kupcakes all in army formation.