Cookies, Cakes and Chaos

Friday, August 29, 2008

carrot cake cupcakes

So, we had some cream cheese in the house, we never have cream cheese in the house and I felt like baking something, so I went onto the Kraft web site to see if I could find a good cream cheese recipe. I saw this Pumpkin loaf with cream cheese in the middle, it looked amazing, but we didn't have any pumpkin in the house, and I didn't feel like going to the store at all. So I scanned the fridge and cabinet for inspiration. We had just gone to the Farmer's Market this week and bought a bunch of veggies and fruits. We used up all of the banana's, so no banana bread. We did have some carrots, so I decided to make some carrot cake cupcakes. Everything is from scratch, the cake recipe and the cream cheese frosting, the frosting is the best cream cheese frosting that I've ever had. Next on the list is a pumpkin cake with cream cheese in the middle, I had got these awesome cake pans for my birthday and totally forgot about them when I was making the carrot cake cupcakes. They're pretty awesome, can't wait to try them out.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

flip flops

Here's a flip flop cake I made for my Nana's Birthday. Took alllll day. I was gonna go with a different design on the actual flip flop part, but i ran out of all of my bright food colors and it didn't look quite right with the colors I have.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Eggplant Parmesan

So here you have it. The famous Muskalino Family eggplant parmesan with the also famous tomato sauce, but that's on the hush hush. P.S, this is Cozmo's favorite meal in the whole entire world, so he'll be getting some tomorrow, what a lucky baby iguana.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Great Nana's Anisette Cookies

If your Italian then these cookies are right down your ally. Made these last night and didn't get a picture until this morning and the colorful nonpareils bled into the white icing so theyre not as pretty. But they're still moist and tasty.

4th Of July

Alrighty, time for some Boston style 4th of July cookout family traditions.

When I was a kid, the 4th was a pretty big deal for my family. The night before, my town would throw a giant block party with fireworks, live music (usually men dressed up as giant raisins, known as The California Raisins) dancing, tons of food and games. Then the actual 4th of july there would be a big parade. My family and I would walk from my Nana's house to the parade that was at the end of her street. After the parade we would have a cookout with the whole family (there are alot of us!) and family friends. We would swim for hours and after swimming we would play games like spud, dodgeball, volleyball and badminton. Sometimes we would have a huge water balloon fight. Then at the end of the day we would go watch fireworks and get bit by millions of misquitos. (Fireworks are both illegal to buy and to use in all of New England).

But anyways, on with the food. You can't beat my families ability to create amazing food on special occasions. These recipes have been passed on for generations. So this year I decided to try out my Great Nana's Boston Beans. These are the most amazing beans in the whole world and I didn't think I was going to be able to produce heaven on a plate, but I did! And they were fantastic!!

You can not have a 4th Of July without a little help from your local Friendlys!!! And their amazing watermelon roll and orange roll. (The Watermelon Roll is my favorite) Friendlys aren't too popular in Florida or anywhere that's not New England, but when we moved to Port Saint Lucie we found out that we had one just a few miles from us! So you better believe we had to pick up a Watermelon Roll for the 4th.

Mmmmmm cotton candy.....

So, because we had way too much food and not as many guests that we thought we were going to have haha. We decided to put off the smores for another day, but they were pretty good when we did get to have them!!!!