0 Cupcakes!

They may not be the prettiest, but they're tasty!  I'm a baker, not a decorator! 

This has very little to do with England. 

Or traveling.

But, since I worked today, it's what you're getting.

I got the bug to bake yesterday (that's not unusual, if you know me at all), and went to Pinterest.

The hot chocolate layer cake looked good,

but I didn't have any whipping cream on hand. 

I'd made some fresh lemonade earlier in the day

(what else do you do when there's ankle-deep snow outside??)

so these lemonade cupcakes with raspberry buttercream jumped out at me.

I don't use egg yolks, so the four eggs in the recipe was altered to 7 egg whites.

I had these gingham cupcake wrappers already, and they fit the theme perfectly.

Well...

my frozen raspberries were freezer burnt

(British freezer strikes again!)

but I had cranberries.

The cranberries were still frozen,

so I pureed them to bits and added some milk so the blender wouldn't squeal,

so then I had to add some extra sugar to the icing,

and it was too sweet so I added a squirt of lemon extract,

and all of that led to the icing having a sort of carbonated taste/feel-

so it only made the "ade" part of the lemonade even better!

Overall,

they were a hit at work,

and brought a bit of summer to a snowy winter day!