Cupcake Masters

Since I'm still housebound, there was no real "getting dressed" today, but James did come by for a visit (finally he didn't have to work ALL DAY!) and we made some master cupcakes for his family  mine. We had originally planned on baking a pie, but obviously you can't split a pie in two (at least not easily) so I made the executive decision to bake cupcakes from scratch - icing and all! We found some awesome cupcake papers with glow-in-the-dark ghosts on them (ideal for finding them in the dark when sneaking into the kitchen for a late-night snack) but for some reason couldn't find Halloween sprinkles ANYWHERE! Maybe because Halloween's only a couple days away...

We used the recipe for white cake from the Joy of Cooking (my favorite go-to cookbook - the copy I have in my apartment is such a mess, full of spills & post-it notes from previous experiments) and the recipe for cream cheese frosting. Yum! They were PERFECT!

Finally, I can't believe I've never read Catcher in the Rye. I started reading it this afternoon, and I can't put it down. It's supposed to rain the next few days, so I'm glad I've found an amazing book to occupy myself...