Ice cream cake....school....Eid....

Ramadan has come to an end and Eid has come and went. Eid was Sunday August 19 2012. My mom invited some people over and we ate. Cooking and getting everything ready for the guest was hard. My back and feet where aching but, all is well.I made some cupcakes for the guest and they looked like this

                                  I made a flower out of m&m's (petals) and chocolate chips (center).

Monday I decide to make any ice cream cake (I actually thought of it a week ago) any ways I saw a picture of any ice cream sandwich cake on pintrest. I replicated the the ice cream sandwich cake by making a cake and taking away the ice cream sandwiches.What I did was bake a 8in square chocolate cake, froze it for 30min, and trimmed it. Next I filled the middle with chocolate ice cream, m&m's and chocolate syrup, iced the cake with buttercream frosting, and froze again for 30mins. Finally I iced the cake again topped it with m&m's and chocolate syrup.

The finished product was amazing.

Yesterday was my first day back to school and it was a crazy first day. The book store was packed with only 2 cashiers who where so slow. Then finale another lady comes and helps and she goes way faster then the other 2 cashiers. I spent $200 on 3 books! College books are way over priced. I have 4 classes this semester; chemistry, chemistry lab, Arabic, and math. This semester will be one of the craziest and busiest so I need to focus if I want to past and take something from it. I have a schedule that I made and notes of my goals so it looks good. Insha'Allah (god willing) I pass.

How way your guys week? Was it as crazy and busy as mine? Or was it even more crazy and busy?
Comment and let me know I want to know hows your life is going.
                                  
                                              Till the next post have a lovely blessed day.
                                                                         :)

Cream Cheese Brownies

I had the taste of cream cheese brownies in my mouth for days so i decide to go ahead and make some.so today I will share with you how I made cream cheese brownies.

Ingredients you need are 8 oz cream cheese,3 eggs,1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup oil, 1/4 cup water,1 teaspoon sugar, and brownie mix.

                                         
                                          Follow the instructions on the back of the brownie mix.

Spoon the batter into cupcake liners

In another bowl beat the cream cheese and 1 egg. Beat to it is creamy

                                   Spoon the cream cheese batter on top of the brownie batter

With a toothpick stir around the cream cheese.Combining it with the brownie batter.

                      Bake at 350 for about 10-15 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean.
                            You can also touch the brownie and if it bounces back it's done.

                                                  Enjoy and let me know what you think.
                                                                          :)

beach Cupcakes

I really wanted to make some beach cupcakes so I made some.The sand was made from crushed gram crackers mixed with a little bit of brown sugar. I mixed in some blue food coloring inside some butter cream.Mixing it just until you can see the blue taking effect.My original plan was to make some gumpaste  toppers but I found  out I did not have fondant on hand.I want to make a ball,umbrella,beach towel,bucket and other little items.I think I will do an updated one someday.here is a picture to enjoy.

Kaba cupcakes

On November 6,2011 was Eid Al-Adah.For those of you who don't know Eid Al-Adah is one of the Muslim holidays.Eid Al-Adah is about hajj and sacrifice;you sacrifice a sheep,lambs,and camel.The sacrifice of a sheep i most popular.I was asked to make cupcakes for a picnic that was on  Tuesday.I wanted to make cupcake toppers that represented Eid Al-Adah.I planed on making little sheep's and Kaba's ,but the sheep's did not work out so I ended up just making Kaba's.I'm going to share with you all some pictures I took and my inspiration.For those of you who are Muslim let me know what kinds of sweets you baked for Eid.I'll be more than happy to know.Bye for now

My inspiration

 The Kaba's are made out of fondant.I placed a thin whit strap of fondant across the top.I used Wilton sparkling gel to make the doors and other decorations.

 I baked 92 cupcakes and used 68 for the picnic.I made chocolate mint sprinkle and butter sprinkle flavor. 

                         I just piped vanilla butter cream on top and placed my topper on.

Cupcake Girls

Hello every body today I want to talk to you all about Cupcake Girls.The Cupcake Girls are two friends who own a cupcake shop in Canada.To know more about them click here http://www.cupcakesonline.com/ I heard about them through WEtv a couple years ago.I thought it was kind of a risky cool  that two people who know nothing about cupcakes decide to have a shop and are booming at what they do.

I decide on this topic because I was reading a book and it came to me that the book is just like them.The author's name is  Jenn McKinlay.She has written many books which I love.Her cupcake bakery mystery reminds me of the cupcake girls becuse its about two friends who own a shop together.The thing that makes it different is because the two friends in the book solve mysteries.I'm not in any why trying to say Mrs.McKinlay stole the cupcake girls.I just thought it's almost like having a face for the characters of the book.

If you girls and guys love cupcakes i recommend watching Cupcake Girls and reading the cupcake bakery mysteries.I believe that you all will love both of them very much.Cupcake Girls airs Saturdays at 9/8c on WEtv.So watch it.Enjoy a cupcake until next time :)