Cupcakes!!

A couple of days ago I baked up a batch of spice cake cupcakes that I frosted with cream cheese icing. I wanted to do something interesting, so I decided to grab some gel colors. :-) With them, I colored the icing a nice shade of blue, and a wild shade of pink! Let me just say that one has to be careful when using the gel colorants! A little goes a looong way! :-) I accidentally "globbed" way too much pink into my icing. :-) However, the cupcakes were good, but I prefer the chocolate ones I made a little while back... I don't know what it was, but I did not think that the frosting flavor matched that well. Or maybe it was the oh-so-bright colors that just did not go with the more sober spice cake flavor... and therefore, threw the whole concept off kilt. I think that was it... But hey, they still looked pretty! So that at least counts for something! :-D

I have been checking craigslist now and again for a good 5 or 6 quart Kitchenaid stand mixer, possibly with a splash guard. I have seen some for as little as $100 and up to $300. I would really like to get one soon. It would be wonderful to have when making fondant, larger batches of icing, and also simply to make mixing the cake batter easier. :-)