Valentines Day Card

I typically purchase my husbands Valentines day card each year. However this year I was feeling a little crafty and decided to make my own. I love to peruse the Martha Stewart website from time to time. She always has creative and fun card ideas.  You can download the templates from the website.

Because I love to scrapbook on occasion, I had card-stock on hand. You would want a thicker paper for this project. 

I still need to cut some string to attach to the back of the plane to the three heart clouds. It is different from any other cards I've seen. Its really simple and sweet!

Lemon Anyone . . .

If you don't know already I have a love for all things lemon flavored! So when my mother needed cupcakes to take to work, lemon was the first thing I thought of. These were made with one of my favorite cupcake recipes Sour cream pound cake cupcakes with a lemon cream cheese frosting.

 I wanted to spice them up a bit . . . this called for lemon curd! 

I have used the same recipe for lemon and lime curd for a couple years now. I decided that I wanted to try a different recipe this go around. I found a really simple and delicious recipe online.

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

1 cup lemon juice

zest from 3 lemons

1/2 cup butter, melted

Whisk eggs and sugar together. Mix the eggs and sugar with the lemon juice, lemon zest, and melted butter.

Place in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute at a time stirring in between. Total time until it thickens should be right around 5 to 5 1/2 minutes. Then let it sit to thicken further. Store in the refrigerator in an air tight container. 

I couldn't believe how easy this recipe was. It tasted great too! It makes just enough for 24 cupcakes if you choose to use it for that. 

Needless to say the cupcakes turned out to be amazing as my husband would put it. There isn't anything better than lemon and cream cheese together! 

Cupcake Pops

In honor of my love for cupcakes, I devised a plan to make cake pops in the shape of cupcakes. With much hard work and hours spent in the kitchen, I think they turned out great!

Because I mill my own grain, getting the consistency right can be tricky. Don't worry they came together just fine. I baked a simple vanilla cake and added a cream cheese frosting to the mix to get the balls to stay together. Once they were rolled into balls I used a cookie cutter to make the bottom form a cupcake liner.  The next step CHOCOLATE . . .

Once the bottoms were dipped I added the sticks. Then it was time to dip the tops and add the sprinkles. From there it all came together very quickly! These cake pops were a hit!