i'm addicted to baking

recently, bo and i went to see a movie called "the waitress." if you haven't seen it, you should. it's a cute little movie starring keri russell in which she plays a small-town waitress with a penchant for developing her own specialty pie recipes and then serving them at the diner where she works. she's married to an idiot and she dreams of entering a pie contest, winning all the loot and escaping her life for one filled with much more excitement and a lot less of her husband.

after seeing this movie, i began dreaming up my own recipes as well. not only that, i started wanting to bake things all the time. cakes, cookies, cupcakes... you name it, i want to bake it. i even tried a new stuffed chicken recipe out on bo last night and it went over very well! (chicken stuffed with herb cream cheese and wrapped with bacon - yumm!)

let me give you a bit of context as to why this is a bit abnormal. when we lived in colorado i often tried to bake special treats for bo. one of his favorites is cupcakes and i failed miserably time after time to get the box cake ones to come out right. the oven was too hot, the altitude meant that you should change the recipe, the muffin tins i bought weren't very good... etc. etc. i used every excuse in the book, but somehow i felt that i wasn't reaching my womanly potential as a baker.

so, no one would have ever thought that when i tried my hand at making my very own cupcakes from scratch that i would have success. i mean, if you can't make the ones from the box, you surely won't succeed at making cake from scratch right??

wrong!

what we have determined is that i am a baking genius. i know, a bit cocky, but i'm so glad that i've surmounted the inability to bake and that i can whip up just about anything you'd like me to whip up - from scratch no less!

in some way, i think this new found addiction has something to do with being able to create. it gives me tremendous pleasure to mix a few things together in the right order and sequence and with the right amount of mixing and end up with something delicious. bo keeps telling me that this is a dangerous thing and that if we don't find some new friends who just want to eat my creations all the time we're gonna gain 20 pounds! that wouldn't be good...

but man, these cupcakes sure are!