meme's birthday cupcakes!

Its officially summer twenty ten and has been for a while but anyway Meme came to visit about two weeks ago. She left a few days before her birthday but that was no excuse not to make her cupcakes. So what did I do? I whipped up some vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, usually I make chocolate cupcakes but these vanilla ones were delicious. The cream cheese frosting was SUPERB it wasn't too sweet or anything, it was my favorite part of the cupcakes for sure. Now you are probably wondering where I got this recipe, it is from the Magnolia Bakery cook book, I highly recommend this cook book it is my favorite. All the cupcakes always come out delicious and everyone who eats them loves them.

chocolate chip cookies :)

In between studying for finals I decided to make chocolate chip cookies to take a break and a de-stresser. I haven't been baking that much lately, but that will change soon because its SUMMER TIME now, which means I have more time to bake and less time/no time dedicated to homework. ANYWAY I made chocolate chip cookies I use the recipe on the back of the ghiradelli bag, I think that recipe makes the best cookies. Every time I make them they come out differently, sometimes they are more cake like and other times they are harder, I think it has to do with how soft the butter is, if it is melted or softened or a little bit of both. Anyway there's a picture of them my mom took the picture because she said the ones that I take are boring and they should be around chocolate or arranged in a certain way.