Pinterest Fail- Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes

I LOVE Cadbury Creme Eggs at Easter time! I wish they were made year round (I did find some at Halloween last year so there is hope). When Easter is near, I crave Creme Eggs and have to have it like a pregnant woman craves anything or a smoker craves a cigarette. It's a seasonal addiction. (I have gone to the store just to get a Dr Pepper aka DP and a delicious, oh so sugary, Cadbury Creme Egg. I know, it's terribly unhealthy).

So naturally, while skimming through recipes on Pinterest, I came across the Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcake and immediately forged a plan with my sister to go to the grocery store. Gluten free vanilla cake mix, 12 Cadbury Creme eggs, and 1 tub of cream cheese frosting later and I began the baking process. The Creme Eggs are placed in the middle of the cupcake batter and baked at the instructed temperature and time...

Well, first of all, we used silicone cupcake liners that we "peeled" off of the cupcakes with some difficulty. The cupcakes were done, but the Creme Egg had made the bottom pretty moist, gooey, and a little sticky. Second, it's really hard to ice a cupcake while holding a 5 month old. Becca had to finish the icing. 

Then we ate one. OH MY GOD! Too much sugar! It was so sweet that I still feel sick after eating one about 30 minutes ago. It doesn't help that LittleMan's rolling around in my lap getting sleepy for bed. 

Not only are the cupcakes too sweet, but they end up costing about $2 each with gluten free cake mix. I'm sure regular cake mix would make it cheaper, but my sister and I try not to cheat our gluten free diets.

Hopefully Cody will like them enough to eat them.

I Quit

I quit my job. I can't believe I quit my job. 

My sister, aka Auntie ReRe (haha), and her husband have decided to spend the second half of their first married year working at a lodge resort in Wyoming... WYOMING! We live in Florida! Do you know how far away that is? (I honestly don't know exactly where it is on a map). 

My sister and I have acted as twins since we were little even though I'm almost three years older than her. We currently live next door to each other, sharing a wall. She's my rock. We share almost everything with each other; food, recipes, clothes, ideas, crafts, cars, my son... She is LittleMan's nanny. My stepmom and mom watch him when they can, but my sister is his nanny. Cody's mom would love to watch him too, however they currently live in another city. 

Cody and I decided that we didn't want to put Ansel in daycare just yet. I know there are great facilities and at-home daycares, but we (I) would feel a lot better if he wasn't being watched by people we don't know and around other kids who have germs, and boogers, and opinions on what he dresses like or how long his hair is (my grandmother said it's bad luck to cut a child's hair before they're one. I'm not arguing with her). The other babies might start calling him "Mama's Boy". 

So I quit. I quit my job, not my career. I will always be a hairstylist, cutting Cody's hair, a friends hair, judging strangers hair, dissecting celebrity hairstyles and judging them; ya know, normal hair dresser stuff. 

Financially, I don't know how we are going to make it. Stay at home mom life doesn't exactly pay the bills. So, of course my crafty brain has started turning its wheels again. What can I make decently fast when Ansel goes to bed every night? That is, till he starts waking up and makes me lay down with him. I think I've got it: kids room decor. I've half-assedly (I know I made it up) made some stuff for LittleMan's nursery and our house, why not hone in on my craft and sell that shit on Etsy? Everyone else is doing it, let me jump on that band wagon. And have you seen some of the crap people buy off of Etsy? Seriously? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Etsy! There are some extremely talented people on there. Let me be one of those people. Over the next few weeks, I will be creating and crafting till I find what I'm great at and sell it, like Ansel's flag banner.