I consider myself a fairly good cook...I also enjoy baking and dont do too shabby...but a cupcake decorator, I AM NOT. I baked a couple dozen cupcakes tonight. Vanilla and red velvet. I have chocolate frosting for the vanilla and buttercream for the red velvet. How hard can it be...
I put the chocolate frosting in a baggie, snipped off the end and made little swirls on top of the vanilla cupcakes...and guess what? It looks like my dog dooed on them. So NOT what I anticipated.
So I fluffed out the frosting with a knife and will just fluff the frosting on the red velvet ones too.
They smell delicious, and now they dont looks so bad either. :P
I got the last of the gift cards today and now I just have to finish wrapping this week.
I am curious to see what is waiting at work tomorrow, having been gone unexpectedly for most of last week. I have some year end projects that will take most of my time.
On an exciting note, this week we will get our Christmas gift from work. For the past 10 years they have given a $50 gift card plus a cash gift of about $300 to exempt staff. I usually use the gift card, but for the past three years I have put the cash, the end of year dividend rebate, and our yearly rewards bonus that we get in February into an ING savings account. I have just 'let it ride'. I enjoy that it is building up a little more each year. Towards the end of each year, I round each account up to the next $100 from any interest earned during the year.
We have hit all of our goals this year so I am really hoping that we get the max payout on the rewards, which is 6%. 
I wont know what it will be until later in January though.
Well, the last of the cupcakes are cooled, so time to go frost and cover them to take tomorrow.
Reminder of my limited talents. :/
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