Piggy- Rear view RSPCA Cupcake day, originally uploaded by Sugar Pot.
How adorable are these little Piggy bottoms from Sugar Pot? Way too cute. I’m sure it was quite a bit of work as well. I’d say it was worth it!!
Hello to anyone out there who is still checking SewTrashy! Bill, my most loyal fan, this post is for you.
I can’t believe it’s been (almost) three months since I posted last. Does anyone else feel the year flying by? Sheesh! Life has been good, busy and full of fun things. Although, not much time for making and creativity. Hopefully that will change soon.
Most recently, Dustin and I went to New York City for a quick 2.5 day weekend trip along with some of my family. We took the bus, which was super fun and only cost $4.50 roundtrip TOTAL for both of us. I mean, you can’t beat that! We had a blast while we were there. Dustin took all of these photos. Enjoy!
Grimaldi’s Pizza was amazing! Totally worth the wait. We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge which certainly worked up our appetite for pizza! I would recommend trying Grimaldi’s (and walking the Bridge!). The space is quite small and a little noisy, but it’s also cozy and fun. You can watch them cranking out the pizzas in the back. Super thin crust, baked in a coal brick oven. YUM!
Amazing cupcakes. Well, at least they look amazing! We tried the Mini Pumplin Whoopie Pies and Coconut Nutella Macaroons which were both pretty spectacular. These baked goodies come from Street Sweets. A blue lunch wagon bakery on wheels! Try it if you see it. Bring cash, unless you want to buy $10 worth of goodies on your debit card.
Here’s my lovely Mom and super cool brother. We went through craziness trying to get tickets to see West Side Story. Finally, we lucked out and paid $35 for balcony seats and ended up with center orchestra seats! Amazing. Great show. Super fun. Made me want to dance!
The only photo of Dustin the entire trip.
Wrong stop. Lots of extra walking.
Definitely earned all the yummy food we ate during the trip.
Do you have a favorite New York City restaurant or activity? I’m going back in a couple weeks, and would love your input!
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A friend of mine had a Birthday yesterday, so I made some cupcakes. I must say, I had these grand pictures in my head of what they were going to look like. They were quite beautiful. However, don’t let these lovely little cupcake shops fool you, icing them to be so pretty and cute is harder than it looks! After testing about 6 different tips and failing miserably, I ended up snipping the end of the ziploc bag and just squirting that icing out! It was fun even though I did not turn out to posses secret Pastry Chef powers.
Finished product. Only decent picture, sorry.
Only had the zoom lens at the time, and it was not cooperating in our small kitchen.
Cupcakes cooling. I didn’t fill them up quite enough this time around.
My Nana makes the tastiest icing. I just love it. I have so many good memories of it growing up. This was a perfect opportunity to make it myself for the first time. It is definitely a very sweet icing, but it has a bit of lemon extract in it which just makes it so tasty! Did I mention it was sweet? ha! I had a major sugar high from all the tasting I did. Because of course, Nana doesn’t use recipes, she just tastes things. So, I tasted and tasted… and tasted some more.
See the ones I messed up on? No tip, just the Ziploc bag!
It worked out much better for me.
This was a lot of fun. I will definitely do it again. However, I’d like to make the cake part of the cupcakes a bit denser to hold up to flavor and sweetness of the icing. Anyone have any recipes to share?