How not to make little cupcakes.

I'm a decent cook, but I'm no baker. I hope to pass on my terrible baking skills to my child(ren).

The rain kept us inside today, so I needed a fun project to keep Sam entertained. I suggested cupcakes, and he started dragging a chair to the counter right away.

He was so cute with the stirring (and the dripping and the spilling) that I had to take some pictures.

I let him stir the ingredients and every couple of minutes I gave the batter a shot with the hand mixer. He pulled the trigger on it while it was sitting next to the bowl, and we got batter-spray everywhere. I'll be finding chocolate batter splatters for weeks.

Apparently we over filled the mini muffin pans, as you can see from the oven shot. If I were a skilled baker, I would have known to not over fill. Actually, a little voice of realization told me not to overfill about halfway through, but we were having so much fun, and there was a lot of batter.

Mini cupcakes are supposed to be cute. These are pretty darn ugly.

He ate one before his nap, and went to sleep excited to tell his daddy all about making cupcakes later on.



Changing gears: I'm pleased that McCain has decided to show up tonight. If that wasn't a totally lame distraction, I don't know what is. I guess he's trying to prove that he's 'Country First' or something, except it's pretty self-centered to presume that our country and our government can't operate properly for 36 hours without him being in the same room...

Debate Party at my house tonight. There will be plenty of ugly cupcakes.