{"id":3351,"date":"2014-05-18T04:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T04:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2014-05-18T04:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T04:16:41","slug":"cupcake-competition-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/18\/cupcake-competition-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupcake competition, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so exhausted I can barely function, but guess what? I won second place at the cupcake competition this morning! Since we had to use garlic, I made a garlic\/chocolate gingerbread cupcake with cream cheese frosting and a garlic\/ginger\/walnut brittle on top. In my humble opinion, the cupcake turned out delicious! Actually, everyone did a great job. The winner had been practicing her cupcake for over a month, so I think she deserved to win (although I secretly liked mine better). Here are everyone’s cupcakes:<\/p>\n

\"Mine!\"<\/a>
Mine! I used this recipe.<\/a> I added blanched, minced garlic and ginger to the cupcake. \u00a0I can’t find the link I used for the brittle, but basically I found a garlic brittle recipe and added some ginger (both powdered and fresh, blanched and minced).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This is a chocolate garlic cupcake with hibiscus icing and an inside surprise of figs soaked in a port wine reduction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"cornmeal<\/a>
cornmeal cupcakes with saffron icing and avocado garnish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"an<\/a>
an ancho chile chocolate cupcake next to the winner, a basil cupcake soaked in a garlic simple syrup topped with blackberry icing, white chocolate and garlic brittle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of the cupcakes wasn’t pictured, but it was a garlic chocolate mousse cupcake with a garlicky ganache. It was really garlicky, but very good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The contenders ready for judgment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Abe and the girls showed up at the end, but they didn’t let them in the kitchen. I gave them cupcakes to go outside and eat:<\/p>\n

\"cupcake\"<\/a> \"mary<\/a> \"mary<\/a> \"lydia<\/a>I won a James Beard Award winning cookbook on bread baking (can’t remember the title) and a bunch of things that I actually already own. But it was still so fun!<\/p>\n

Here are the other activities of the day:<\/p>\n

6 am Bikram Yoga; getting my mom’s car serviced\/washed; errands at Target, the gas station, sprouts and Smith’s Garden Center; FHE; planting tomatoes as a family (almost all of the plants I planted earlier died from frost and, um, because I forgot to water them); cooking dinner; eating outside; cleaning the kitchen; bathing the girls; paying bills; tidying various parts of the house.<\/p>\n

Here are the accompanying pictures:<\/p>\n

\"Abe<\/a>
Abe took a break from paying bills and played with Lydia. It was one of the happiest parts of his day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"lydia<\/a> \"lydia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Planting<\/a>
Planting tomatoes. Lydia went really nuts with the hose and basically gave the entire exterior of our house a big shower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Abe and I have been trying to watch a movie for months. We are both so tired–but we’re determined to finally watch one. I think we might to either Saving Mr. Banks <\/em>or Lincoln.\u00a0<\/em>(Whichever’s shorter??)<\/p>\n

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I am so exhausted I can barely function, but guess what? I won second place at the cupcake competition this morning! Since we had to use garlic, I made a garlic\/chocolate gingerbread cupcake with cream cheese frosting and a garlic\/ginger\/walnut brittle on top. In my humble opinion, the cupcake turned out delicious! Actually, everyone did … Continue reading Cupcake competition, etc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,21,31,32,34,37,42,49,58,63,67,88,92,95,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikram","category-book-of-mormon","category-cooking","category-errands","category-exercise","category-family-movie-at-home","category-fhe","category-food-pics","category-k","category-lydia-pics","category-mary-pics","category-naps","category-recipe-link","category-school","category-scriptures","category-time-outside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}