Make Do Easter Treats

We wanted to make some Easter cupcakes this weekend. For things like this I don't mind depending on Betty Crocker, but there were no pre made boxes in my pantry and I didn't want to go to the store again, so we made do, and I pulled out a recipe. Unfortunately, my not so trusty mixer has a burned out motor from our Valentine's Day baking adventure. I'm saving up for a Bosch, so we have been making do with a simple whisk.

Trying to cream butter and sugar with a whisk wasn't working....maybe a ten second shot in the microwave would have helped, but I didn't think of that at the time. Instead, I retrieved my even older hand mixer, which still had a good motor, but broken beaters, and attached a beater from my not so old hand mixer with the burned out motor.

Ya still with me?

I was only able to get one beater to fit, and I had to hold it in by keeping it pressed against the bottom of the bowl....while I mixed....while I moved the spinning beater around the bowl in the opposite direction.

Oh yeah, and while I was taking a picture for my blog with the other hand.

This worked a little better, but even with my limited baking knowledge, it was pretty clear our yummy chocolate cupcakes just weren't coming together quite right.

No surprise, the cupcakes didn't turn out so hot.....but by this point there was no turning back.

Then my daughter noticed that the cupcakes....although flawed for some purposes, fit ours perfectly. So we happily made do, and had a blast eating too much candy and making these cute little Easter baskets out of our "basket" shaped cupcakes.



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