Congratulations Babycakes!

Ummm, still no tiramisu. I really was going to make it this week. I even bought all of the ingredients. The problem is I left them at home in Jacksonville with my family before, you know, mixing them together and actually making the tiramisu. I didn't want to buy more ingredients (how often am I going to be using marscapone cheese??) so, luckily, I had a backup plan. This well thought out backup plan involved hoping that my coworker's wife would have her baby this week so I could make some congratulations cupcakes. Luckily, the baby was on the same wavelength as me and popped out right in time.



Supplies:

- Cupcakes (I used funfetti)

- Sugar Cookie Dough

- Alphabet Cookie Cutters

- Chocolate Frosting (I use homemade frosting - 1/2 cup whipping cream and 4 ounces chocolate chips)

- White frosting

- Blue Sanding Sugar

- Candy for decoration (the candy on the cupcakes that looks like pacifiers is actually from Walmart and called "Championship Rings." Why they would make candy pastel champion rings is beyond me, but I'm not complaining, it worked in my favor)

Frost your cupcakes with the white frosting before rolling the tops in the blue sanding sugar. Throw a few of those (championship!) pacifiers onto a couple of the cupcakes for decoration.

Cut out the letters to spell "Congrats!" in the sugar cookie dough after rolling it out about 1/4" thick. Make sure to dip the cookie cutters into flour first to make sure they don't stick. Bake for about 7-9 minutes until the edges are golden brown. Let them cool and then frost those babies with some chocolate icing. My recommendation is to spell out "Congratulations" and eat some of those letters after dipping them in chocolate. Yum.

Once you're done frosting, stick the letters onto the top of the cupcakes. And you're done. Easy. Peasy.

I'd tell you what I was going to bake next week but it would probably be a lie. So, not tiramisu. That's the best I can do. Now I need to go back to my dinner of pickle spears and sandwich bread. Yum. :)