Time to Make the Cupcakes

Is it Chicken Little who always shouted that the sky was falling or was Chicken Little the one who kept asking people if they'd help her bake the bread? Whatever character it is, I felt like the latter yesterday. For days I had been promising the kids to make "Muzzini Cupcakes" (aka Zucchini - the girl can't say zucchini). The days got away from us as they are prone to do and we never got around to it. Finally the kids prostrated themselves on the ground and begged. No problem. We had time. I gathered all of the ingredients for Granny's chocolate zucchini cake and went to find the kids to help.

The girl was playing on the couch. "[Girl]," I said. "Come help with the cupcakes." "No thank you, Mommy." she replied, "You're a big girl. You can figure it out." I moved on to Thing 2 who was playing Legos in the dining room and in the zone. I didn't even bother asking as he wouldn't acknowledge me when in that state anyway.

It left me alone with the cupcakes...and the cupcake batter! SCORE!

They turned out excellently. Granny's recipe is fantastic. Click on the 101 zucchini recipes link to the right to see it. I added some more on there the other day also.

So, whereas I did make them myself, everyone shared in eating them and you can't go wrong with that.

They each had three right then and there for lunch and then another for dessert after dinner. I'm going to try to make a few batches so I can freeze them for the year. It's what we did last year and it worked out very well.

Here's the harvest for today. I'm thrilled the beans are starting to come in - it's good to have some variety.

Lastly, things have been quiet for a while on the Keychains for a Cause front for a while. We've gotten a few orders here and there, but nothing big for about a week until Sunday when I was contacted about making some lanyards for an administrative meeting. I used the thinner, but smoother webbing and the requested hot pink satin ribbon. They came out very nice!

They look better with the smaller 5/8 ribbon so the black shows, but the 7/8 ribbon will still fit. I don't really want to use the wider 1.25 inch webbing as it's a bit coarser and wouldn't feel good on the back of the neck. I delivered them today and they were thrilled with the sturdy webbing - so much nicer than the string lanyards that bunch up and look like dirty shoe laces. I'm thinking about putting them on the website as well to complement the keychains - thoughts?