Feeling Green

They're back! Well, they have been for a little over a month but still, it's Shamrock Shake season and it won't last for long.

My typical mindset was in place and I thought, "Hey, I can turn that into a cupcake." So, I did.

I was nervous to attempt to imitate the flavor of the shamrock shake which is probably near impossible and I've got some learning to do.

With a little liquid inspiration - Anti-Hero in a can! - I experimented with Creme de Menthe and white chocolate.

I'm not a huge fan of mint but I do like Shamrock Shakes and didn't want to get too crazy with the Creme de Menthe, so I used white chocolate to balance it out. It worked, but because of my fear of too much mint the cupcakes could have used a little more.

I made your normal buttercream frosting, had some green sprinkles left over from Christmas and topped them with red candies to look the part.

I was on a cookie kick earlier that week so I tried to make cookies out of them as well. The green color is a little weird and of course this time I put a little too much Creme de Menthe in the batter, so eventually I'll find a happy medium. It all depends on your tastebuds.

One tip, ease up on the liquids with the sugar cookie recipe if you're adding Creme de Menthe, otherwise it gets really soupy and hard to deal with.

Green food can be kind of weird but it's fun to make and perfect for St. Patty's Day!

Sláinte!

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I was sifting through some old Facebook photos from college and found a gem.

I went to an art school for a reason. I'm not one for math and science but I still had to take those classes. In order to get out of getting frustrated and going in to detail on science projects, I turned them into cake.

I give you the "Hurricake." Complete with headless gingerbread men.

If there's one thing that my "Natural Disasters" class taught me is that when in doubt, make food for a final project. It always goes over well. People (by people I mean professors) tend to forget that you don't know what you're talking about and are blinded by your baked goods.

We had to show the five stages of a hurricane so I went out and found gingerbread man cookies, sprinkles, tree sprinkles and I think at one point I even threw a Matchbox car in there for some drama.

I couldn't tell you now the in depth descriptions in each category of a hurricane, but maybe you can from the cake carnage I created?

Category 1:

Category 2: I'm assuming the roof of the gingerbread house came off while the gingerbread man was sleeping.

Category 3: Now his arm fell off.

Category 4: You've lost your head and now the house is flooding. 

Category 5: Let's jus stay I don't want to be in that house. 

I must give myself some credit for creativity, making the hurricane out of funfetti representing whatever a hurricane destroys and scoops up in it's path.  

And all the gingerbread man sprinkles to show death. Kind of sick once you look back on it. But hey, had to pass a class and I like cake! 

Mixing up Evil, circa 2007. Complete with Starbucks apron and espresso wall art, still in existence. Special thanks to my roommates for putting up with this. 

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