PHONE CALL!

I know I am behind on blogging. I need to blog about school starting and the vacation I took. But this post is going to me short but sweet.

Today I have been in a good mood because it's Adam's halfway mark, he is halfway through bootcamp. But the big surprise happened about 20 minutes ago. I got a call from an unknown number. I rarely answer those calls, but today I did, and it was ADAM! At first I seriously thought it was a prank call. But then I realized it was really him, his voice sounded weird, I asked if he was sick and he said no, I said "I guess I forgot how your voice sounded" that made me sad, but then he said "well I yell a lot here so my voice might be hoarse or I might be loosing my voice" I realized he was right. Our call only lasted a minute and thirty second and unfortunately about 20 of those seconds were me trying to figure out if it was a prank call. After a minute and thirty seconds his DI started yelling at him to get off, so we said our quick goodbyes and hung up. It was the worst and best feeling at the same time, worst because the call was so short and I had to hang up, best because I got a call in the first place. But boy I've been on cloud nine since and probably will be for the next few days!

BIG NEWS!

I JUST WANTED EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT I GOT MY FIRST NOT ONE, BUT TWO LETTERS TODAY, ONE FROM ADAM AND ONE FROM JOSUE! SO ECSTATIC RIGHT NOW!

Grapesoda Cupcakes

Today I decided that I wanted to bake, something that I really enjoy, but don't do nearly enough. I wanted to try a new recipe, so I turned to my Cupcake Bible and decided on making these Grapesoda Cupcakes and they actually turned out pretty good!

Cupcake Ingredients-

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 envelope grape kool aid
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened, DIVIDED
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla, DIVIDED

Directions-

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F. Line muffin pan with paper baking cups.
• Whisk flour, drink mix, baking powder and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
• Beat sugar and 1/2 cup butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy, add the eggs.
• Add the flour mixture, beat until blended, add 1/2 cup of milk and 1 tsp vanilla beat until smooth
• Divide batter evenly into muffin pan, bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. 
• Let them cool for 10 minutes in the pan, and then cool off the rest of the way on a cooling rack.

Frosting Ingredients-

• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 tsp vanilla 
• Purple good coloring
• 3-4 Tbsp heavy whipping cream

Frosting Directions-

• Beat the powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, heavy whipping cream and food coloring in a bowl with an electric mixture on medium speed until fluffy
• Spread or pipe onto cupcakes
• ENJOY

Fresh from the oven

The finished Product

Source: The Cupcake Bible

*The original frosting recipe called for 3 Tbsp milk, but I changed it to 3-4 Tbsp Heavy Whipping Cream