If at first you don't succeed...

For my birthday one of my presents was a fabulous cupcake cookbook! I love looking through it... but cookbooks are not just there for looking at pictures, so I looked through it in hopes of finding a recipe that not only looked yummy, but also that I had all the ingredients for in my pantry. Sure enough I found one. I was super excited and proud that we had everything I needed already stocked. I feel like I followed the recipe, but my cupcakes sadly did not turn out the way I was expecting. Not to say they didn't turn out the way they were supposed to... just that I was expecting something a bit different. I made some yummy cream cheese frosting and cut up strawberries for the top. A little variation from the finish the cookbook suggested but I didn't think that would matter. So I tried again... this time I adjusted the recipe in a way I thought might help. It didn't. Sad. The second batch turned out worse than the first. Oh well right. I will have to try it again sometime.