Big Daddy is the "Man of the House." He takes his daddy role seriously. He & I met when we were in highschool, and the rest is literally crazee history. As the only guy around it's his job to fix things, and scare off the boogie man. He spends his time working hard & playing a little golf. For extra fun he loves pulling pranks on the girls.
While I believe that my role as a mom is to teach my girls how to become strong independent women, I have another not so secret agenda as well. I find it important to teach them to laugh, and not take themselves so seriously. That is my philosophy. I love my husband, I love my children and I love the fact that we are not your average "cookie cutter" family.
Miss Mae is our oldest daughter. Just stepping into the world of being a teenager, she is learning to assert her independence and make her opinions known. She has a big heart, and loves to have a great time. She enjoys playing sports, especially basketball. She plays competitive basketball year round. She also enjoys dance, singing, fashion and texting her friends.
Despite turning 10, Hannah is still referred to as the baby. Most of the time, she finds being the "baby" to be more of a burden than a blessing. She loves animals, and would most likely run a zoo out of our house if we would let her. For now, she has to settle for taking care of her Schnauzers; Zoie & Ozie. She was blessed with the voice of an angel and loves to sing. Hannah also enjoys cooking, and can't wait until she's old enough to babysit.
Hannah ♥'s to cook, bake, decorate, sautee', stir fry, boil, broil, -shrimp kabobs-oops sorry, thought I was in the movie Forest Gump there for a second. Anyway, my girl loves to be in the kitchen. This Christmas, she asked for "baking and cooking stuff." In particular she mentioned that she'd love to own the proper equipment to make a Big Top Cupcake.
So, a few of you had some questions about this Honey I blew up a cupcake:
First of all, I mentioned that it took for-ev-er for this cake to cook. (Like double the time of the box directions.) The result after baking it--a very well done outside, with a barely done middle. We chose to use two {boxed} cake mixes to make our Big Top Cupcake (the directions said to use 2 for a larger cupcake)--so that was possibly why it took much longer-with less than perfect results. For a smaller (BIG) cupcake you can use one cake mix-halved into the top and bottom pan. We haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking that we might have more desirable results by using only one cake mix.
How did we cut it, or did we all just grab a fork and dig in?!?! Well-now, if I would have thought about just grabbing a fork and digging in.... We might have done that-- However, my very neat and tidy (soon to be) Sis-in-Law was present when the cake cutting began..... So, we just sliced it in very thin slices -pie slice style. So we had long -thin slices of cake.
Would I recommend it?!? It was -fun-different-a neat baking experience for Hannah. She can't wait to make a new cupcake and use the filling insert next time. It wasn't difficult to put together -put the icing on...and fun for decorating. So, even though the baking time was a little much--if you've been thinking about adding it to your "fun" or "creative" baking supplies---I think you'll be happy.
I am not compensated in any way by the makers of this product. Just providing more F.Y.I.-because I'm cool like that . :)
5 people got crazee and lived to tell about it:
That's awesome that she loves to cook and bake1 What a fun thing for you guys to do together.
If she gets a show on Food Network, can you have her introduce me to Bobby Flay? KThanks. ;)
Joe saw the photo on my laptop screen and said, "Don't you just want to dive into that cupcake?" ... Uhh, yeah. The sprinkles are pretty much pushing me over the edge.
How sweet.....
Great that she likes to cook and bake!
Hugs
I've seen these and wondered about them. The finished product looks so good. I just can't imaginesuch a large cupcake--I'd be in heaven!!
Melinda
WOW ... what a cupcake!
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