New Job!

(photos by this is naive)

Exciting news! After a bit of a break after doing that little thing called a master's course, i'm back in the work force. This time it's in London, and as ever, i've been hired to help do tedious organization, except in a cupcake shop! And not just any cupcake shop. It's the cutest cupcake shop in town, and run by the loveliest owner. Yay! Cupcakes for everyone!

Happy Cupcakes.

Today I woke up and was just in one of those moods. The good kind of mood, one where you're happy that there's a nice springtime rain pattering on the windows, and the birds are all making it known that they are alive. That kind of mood led to copious amounts of baking, and the happiest of all was making bright pink cupcakes with pale yellow icing. Adding pureed strawberries to my old standby yellow cake recipe made the cupcakes a little more exciting. They are the perfect cupcakes to give my friend Ashley for her birthday, the color combination is the same as the cake we made for her 16th birthday, now she's 21. Happy Birthday Ash! Happy spring everyone else!

Such Is Life.

If someone would have told me all of the things that were going to happen to me in the past two weeks I probably would have looked them dead in the eyes and laughed. From falling flat on my face unexpectedly and knocking my teeth out, to all the dental surgery that's ensued, to being on trains for seven hours to get to an interview with the director of the Courtauld in DC, to getting into said masters program in London, it's been a lot. A New York, Pennsylvania and DC whirlwind. But, even with all of that, tomorrow is still Valentines Day-- that cheesy holiday that you either love to love or love to hate. I take the first path, enjoying all the sentimentality and splashes of the color pink and the sweets. The sweets! As if i needed any kind of excuse to make cupcakes, this holiday is my favorite for baking. So, with all that said... here's what i've come up with this year. Happy Valentines Day everyone!