Monday, May 2, 2011

Been thinking about some Mother's Day ideas

With Mother's Day coming up next weekend, My siblings and I have been planning a bunch of surprises for our mother. We figure that we'll put together a photo album of her kids throughout the years, focusing more on the present years than the younger years because she already has tons of albums of when we were kids lol
Manda and I are going to drive mom to work on Friday so that we can high jack her car and run the roads getting pictures taken, printed, buying albums and ingredients for another awesome idea that Kate and I had.
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We want to make a whole bunch of cupcakes. Mom's favourite flavours and some crazy different flavours that I just want to try. lol.

Kate and I especially want to make a Black Forest Cupcake. Which would be a basic chocolate cupcake soaked in Kirsch with a Cherry filling (We'll most likely just open a can of cherry pie filling and fill the center of the cupcake) and then a whip cream icing and add chocolate shavings and a glazed cherry or a Maraschino cherry. --> This would be more for Kate than my mom, since Black Forest is Kate's favourite cake flavour ever

We also are going to make a Strawberry Shortcake Cupcake. I'm thinking about a simple shortcake cupcake with some kind of strawberry filling with a whip cream icing and a strawberry slice on top. ---> Mom loves strawberries and, I believe, is quite fond of strawberry shortcakes.

I'm also thinking about a Lemon Meringue Cupcake. For this I'd most likely make a lemon cake, maybe fill it with that lemon pie filling or maybe not. and then roast some Meringue on top. (I'm hoping that blow torches are not too expensive but if they are well I'll just place them under the broiler for a bit I think) --> One of mom's fave pies. She loves it only about as much as she loves Key Lime Pie.

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cupcakes. This is for me lol. I'm thinking about modifying a chocolate cupcake recipe by adding peanut butter to the mixture and then making a peanut butter icing of some kind. I'm thinking a chocolate and peanut butter marbled icing.

Which leads me to my other ideas for another day, some kind of Key Lime Cupcake, a Rum Raisin Cupcake (for my Dad especially. His fave ice cream and I think a great cupcake idea), Marble Cupcake.... Only I have no idea how to make them, I'm just going to wing it, with the help of a bunch of sources on the internet and cookbooks. I also have tons of other ideas, a whole sheet of loose leaf and 3 notes on my cell phone lol. But I can't think of them all right now. But yeah.

That's what I've been thinking about lately.