Bake N Blog - Cupcake #11: Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache and Cream Filling

Yum!

This recipe is from ming makes cupcakes - http://mingmakescupakes.yolasite.com/

These cupcakes where pretty easy to make, and the ingredients are things i usually have on hand. I started by mixing the chocolate cupcake batter...and tasting! it was a delicious batter. I baked the cupcakes for the exact time on the recipe (20 minutes) and they turned out great. I do think thought that the recipe should have a little more deltail about how many cupcakes you should get (i got 12) and how full you should fill the cups (i filled them 3/4 full). As the cupcakes where baking i made the cream filling...next time i think i would leave out the almond and then the chocoalte ganache. When the cupcakes where cooled i used a knife to cut out the middle and used a pastry bag to fill them with the cream, put a little ganache on top and then in the fridge.

In the future i don't think i would make this combination of cupcakes again, i will forsure make the chocoalte cupcakes though, it is a great recipe for chocoalte cake and would taste yummy with chocolate icing or even as black forest. All together i thought this cupcake combo was a little too sweet!

Modern Baby Book from dottedcrossdesigns

I wanted to share Hollys new baby book from dottedcrossdesigns on etsy (check her shop out!), it came in the mail today and i'm SO happy with it! You get to decide what you want on the outside and what type of theme and colors you want the inside pages to be and you can choose to have personalzation on the front.

We made it through the first month!

Logan's crazy bed head!

Tummy time :) my new project is tummy time pillows for the etsy shop - just testing them out, hers is pretty cute with hedgehogs and mushrooms.

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The first month with Holly has gone by so fast! And she is a great sleeper, this week she has been sleeping at least 5 hours at a time in the night and even last night went for 7 hours! I've been trying to make her day sleeping and her night sleeping different from each other - day sleeping she's not swaddled and lights on and she's usually around us so it's noisey and then for the night she's in the dark in her bassinet with her woombie on and classical sleepy music playing. When Logan was a newborn all i remember is being exhausted and hardly being able to keep my eyes open when i would need to feed him in the night, he for sure did not sleep as long as her!..plus it took him 7 months to sleep through the night.

Logan is being a great big brother, he doesn't seem to be getting that jealous of her but sometimes he does think he needs to drink milk when she's drinking her bottle. I've been trying to make sure he gets outside for some time everyday. Yesterday in the backyard i would throw him a baseball underhand and he could hit it with his bat! Pretty amazing for a little guy. He has insisted a few times this week that he NEEDED to wear him underwear instead of a pull up for his nap and bedtime...and i've had to wash his bedding a few times.

Dustin is also being a huge help with things! And i have been getting a little sewing done. I shipped off a small wholesale order last week and got another one this week to start working on when the fabric arrives. We have family pictures scheduled for Sept 11th with Amber Holt Photography , i'm very excited and have put all our outfits together all ready.

Just cuteness...

Logan made himself a snack..

4 weeks old!

Tummy time!

Holly's new colorful mobile...

I wanted to make Holly a mobile for her room when i was pregnant with her...but never got around to it, this week i found a great tutorial for a polka dots crib mobile from this site - http://sewshesews.wordpress.com and decided to try it out. I changed a few things..i did two different sizes of dots, and i did a zig zag stitch down the dots and ribbons which made the ribbon have a little twist which i really like. I think the mobile turned out great and cost me under $10 to make!

Bathtime!...and sleeping baby

Holly's Birth Story

(during labour)

On the morning of Saturday July 3rd as i was reading in bed waiting for Logan to wake up i started timing Braxton Hicks contractions that where very intense, they where coming every 10 minutes but didn't hurt. We just went about our day and made some cookies, went to a Farmers Market with my mom and also the park with my parents. The Braxton Hicks where still coming all day, not hurting and not getting any closer. At 8 pm i had a cup of Raspberry Leaf tea, i'm not sure if this helped anything along or what, but at 10 pm the contractions started to hurt a bit, they where still 10 minutes apart, so i just tried to fall alseep but our neighbor was blasting music, so i finished sewing up a bib for an order and worked on changing my shoe patterns a little. I think around 11 pm Dustin got home and wanted to get right to the hospital, i said lets just wait until 12 and see what's going on...at 12 they where still 10 minutes apart and hurting a little more so i then said lets just wait until 1 and see, at some point between 12 and 1 we both fell alseep, i woke up in pain sometime just before 2 am, i sat and timed the contractions which where 5 minutes apart and painful, Dustin called my parents to come over and be there for Logan in the morning and i took a hot bath, the hot water felt good on my stomach as i was getting contractions. We left for the hospital and got there sometime around 3 am, the contractions where now 3 minutes apart, we spent a few minutes in the triage, where i was checked and told to be 6 cm dilated and then where moved to a labour/delivery room. Around 3:45 am my water broke during a contaction and by about 4:25 am i said i needed to push, the nurse checked me and said i was 10 cm, got things ready and the doctor came in, i remember only pushing through one contraction and she was out at 4:29 am and placed on my chest. I am very happy to have been able to have another natural drug free delivery as well as not having to get stiches this time, after delivery i felt pretty good! I did forget just how much the contactions do hurt and that intense feeling of needing to push, but i think i did a good job of breathing through it. Dustin was a huge help as well, he was always beside me and let me hold and squeeze his hand through contactions, when i said i didn't think i could do this again nautrally he told me i had done it once before so he knew i could. We stayed in the hospialt for the day on Sunday and got to go home on Sunday night, just 15 hours after she was born. Our first night at home was very nice, Holly is a great calm and sleepy baby. We are so happy she is part of our life now!

Holly Emma Grace Andreasen

July 4th 4:29 am

6 lbs. 8 ounces

49 cm long