The Princess In Me!

In honor of Miss Arkansas Outstanding Teen today - I would like to show off some cute princess cupcakes. 

These cupcakes just make you want to smile.

even though I am not a huge fan of the fondant on cupcakes and (I really don't like it on

wedding cakes) but they just make everything so adorable. 

Tough price to pay for a cute looking cake! 

If you look closely at these cute little cakes - you will see that there are cookie dough flavors (up top) Strawberry (middle in pink), M&M (obvious), your s'more cupcake will be on the 3rd row to the left, followed by the milk chocolate, and dark chocolate on vanilla, the bottom row is lemon, chocolate on chocolate and of course can't for the red velvet! 

As you look at this picture please imagine, and even eat one for me :)  As I am nearing the date of Miss Arkansas I get closer and closer to the day of consumption... hmm I kind of like that term! 

Well I hope you enjoy this.  I will be posting pictures of arrival on Charmed Bliss.  http://www.charmedbliss.blogspot.com/ so head over there for all of the Miss Arkansas and Miss Arkansas Oustanding Teen Coverage :) 

I have several cupcake posts that are ready to go - so keep calm... and

EAT A CUPCAKE
Abby

Soo Close - but yet so far

I found these pictures... yes on my favorite site - FoodGawker and they made my mouth water.  I am hoping they are just as delictable to you.  First we have my favorite -- the red velvet cupcake and then to the bite.  No.  I did not. Eat. This. Cupcake.  I found this picture.

Honestly though, can we please take a moment and examine this picture.  How moist does that cupcake look?  The red velvet almost looks like batter it looks so moist.  I can tell you one thing -- my bite would not be that small if that cupcake was as good tasting as it looked.  It would go from a cupcake to gone cake.  (get it - corny I know)





If you don't like red velvet - maybe you can imagine yourself taking a bite into this bite size of fun cake.  It doesn't look as moist - but the frosting looks thick and sweet.  Exactly what frosting should be.  The sprinkles... come on now.. the sprinkles just make you smile.  I remember when my mom used to put sprinkles on my birthday cakes and it was my favorite part. 

I have fallen in love with Fro-yo.  In fact, my roomies Kellie and Racheal love fro-yo, and it is our favorite study break in Waco.  I always go for the sugar free fat free tart.  That is the flavor that I love.  And the girls are always quick to give me hard time when I put sprinkles on it.  They say, "you get sugar free but yet you put sugary sprinkles on your yogurt."  It is all about the little things in life... Sprinkles - are my little things!

Found this at Hobby Lobby the other day and fell in love.  I didn't buy it - but one

day when I have a little girl, she will love cupcakes.

She will be my cupcake.

and this will go in her room!

It's kind of hard to read, it says Tiny Cakes - Big Smiles.

Which is a perfect way to end your day - cupcakes and smiles.

So why not!

Go treat yourself!!

Abby

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Why Cupcakes?

I am officially the worst blogger ever.  I can’t remember to sit down and write something - I always have a cupcake and can always talk about its decadence and how much I miss them.  However, sitting down at my computer and remembering to scribble something out is just not something I am in the [habit] of doing yet.  So bare with me - it will come!  And I have plenty of cupcakes to tell you about! Get ready!

Today, however, I want to tell you about an article in my favorite magazine since my weight loss... 

This is the May issue: And it has some GREAT stuff in it.

This is an excerpt of what is in it:

Curb Cravings:

Picturing yourself eating a food bite by bite reduces how much of it you actually consume, reports the journal Science.

Hold up - talking about cupcakes actually reduces how much I eat it!  I knew there was a reason that I started this blog!  Praise the Lamb!  There is a method to my madness (my mom says that all the time) :)  love her.  okay back to the story...

Using this technique with M&M’s caused subjects to eat 61% fewer pieces.  

So it’s not cupcakes - but same difference right?  Both are delectable and both are rich and sweet and beautiful to consume!  yum!  and 61% that’s a big chance - that means that because I talk about cupcakes ALL of the time - i will consume 61% less calories because I get the satisfaction from talking not eating.  haha - oh my friends know me well - i LOVE talking.  and I know they are probably rolling their eyes saying “great now she is going to really start talking about cupcakes...” well get ready life because abby is BACK IN TOWN with the cupcake blog!

back to the article:

Visualizing eating a good can TRICK your mind into believing that you have already gobbled it!  Which reduces your desire for more, says study author Carey Morewedge, Ph.D., of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Well [Carey Morewedge, Ph.D., of Carnegie Mellon UNiversity] in Pittsburgh - thank you for contributing to my cupcake blog today! You are absolutely a GENIUS!  I thank God today for people like you that make cupcakes more interesting to talk about and better for me :) ha I wish the statistic was the

 ((more you talked about the food the less calories you consumed when you ate it. )) 

Oh well, for the time being

Be Happy and TALK about Cupcakes

A  B  B  Y  

Sweeter Than Honey.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.

In the next few months, I will be concentrating on a myriad of things.  Some being self-improvement - while others are just for fun.  This blog is just for fun.  

I stumbled across this verse because in a bakery I have recently been in, don’t ask me which one because I can’t remember, but this verse was written on the wall and printed on their take out bags.  I thought to myself what a great way to encourage myself to NOT eat cupcakes.  Worship the Lord.  His words are sweeter than honey to my mouth.  

I don’t know about you - but I love the sweetness and how strong and rich the first bite of a cupcake is!  It’s freaking incredible!  The cream cheese or better yet, buttercream, frosting with the bite of moist cake that you can actually taste the butter in.  It’s delicious.  

So a bite of encouragement - read God’s word - that can be your cupcake of the day! ha

I will however, as promised, feature a cupcake.  

Today’s cupcake is a cupcake that would be heaven to eat right now... however coming in with a whopping 1235 calories - I think I will pass.

the R e e s e’ s   C u p c a k e :

Girls and Boys - if I were eating that cupcake first I would take off the reese cup and eat it - in one bite... then I would take a good cake and icing bite - and sit there and enjoy the utter goodness of a nice thick peanut buttercream frosting and a chocolate moist cake.  The cake would most likely crumble it’s so moist and I would love eating every piece of that cupcake.  It would take me a while because I would want to enjoy every bite of peanut butter coupled with the chocolate cake to give a sensational reese flavor.

This cupcake is DIVINE!!!

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abby.