holidays & recipes: valentine raspberry cupcakes
When I home schooled my two, now young men, I was grateful to avoid the trappings of grade school birthdays and holidays. Once I received a panicked phone call, from a dear friend, at 10pm on the eve of Valentine’s Day: “I have to make 29 cupcakes for Valentine’s Day! What do I do?!” A big sigh on my part….”I’ll be right over.” We went to the only market open at that hour, purchased the ingredients, baked and decorated 30 cupcakes. We did this while sipping wine and the late evening turned into a joyful time spent together. While admiring our finished product my friend moaned, “Great….now they are going to ask me to do this again!” The cupcakes looked marvelous and were fairly simple to make. As I was leaving I told my dear friend that she must plan ahead a bit. She, jokingly said, “You should open a... Read the Rest →
