Sugar and Spice and Everything Delicious

So, I'm a little behind on the blog. Not on the baking, just on the blog. Still, there are no excuses - I have just been a lazy bum this past week as far as blogging goes and nothing could change that. In fact, the only reason I am blogging now is because I can't sleep and after laying in bed for TWO HOURS staring at the back of my eyelids, I decided I should at least do something productive with my time. So here I am, sure to be sleep-deprived in the morning, updating my blog for all ten of my followers, most of whom are related to me (Hi Mom!).

On a brighter note, I made some really amazing tasting Snickerdoodle Cake last week. I found the recipe here: Since I'm going with a lazy theme this week, I'm not going to go into details since the link to the recipe is above. I will tell you the changes I made though.

Instead of making one large bundt cake, I opted for tiny cakes. (Side note: I don't know if you noticed, but I love baking bite-sized desserts. They are just cuter and easier to serve.) I used a mini-cake pan from Walmart. Can't remember exactly what it was called, but it was Wilton Brand and they looked like mini-bundt cakes. Before putting the dough in, I sprayed the pan really well with PAM (am I the only one that imagines Emeril yelling PAM! when I see that?) and then sprinkled a cinnamon and sugar mixture over the pan. After putting the dough into the cups, I sprinkled a lot of cinnamon/sugar over the tops. Instead of baking them for 55 minutes like Dozen Flours does in her blog, I baked these babies for about 25-30 minutes and they came out perfect. No need to decorate, just cool on a rack, pack them up and then force them on your coworkers. I received an "amazing", "these are so good" and a "FA-BU-LOUS" for these, so I highly recommend them.

I also made some cute heart pies last week. I can't really blog about them though, because I totally cheated and used pre-made, pre-ROLLED pie crust, canned cherry filling and a pocket pie mold from Williams-Sonoma designed specifically for this purpose. I barely had to do ANYTHING. And I didn't even share them at work, I ate them all. This is probably another reason why I should not have mentioned this in the blog. Fortunately for you all, and unfortunately for me, I am too invested in the time I just spent typing this to delete it and leave you without a picture of my pretty heart pies. So here you are...

Well, without further ado I am going to attempt to catch a few moments of sleep before getting up and facing the dreaded Monday. If anyone has suggestions on recipes I should attempt to try, please comment. I'm starting to worry that I'll run out of good ideas before Spring.