Bake sale

Today, Lane's class had a bake sale.  When she asked if we could make something to bring, I said, "Sure, we'll bake cupcakes after Ryan goes to bed on Wednesday night."  I knew we had an extra box of mix and some leftover frosting from my cakepops last week.  This was going to be easy...

So, I got Ryan to bed and Lane and I got started.  Then we hit our first bump in the road.  No cupcake liners.  I swore I had some... but they were not be found!  Dad was working late and Ryan was already in bed, so no run to the store was possible.  That's okay, I thought, we'll just grease the pans and work with it. 

She and I proceeded to mix our ingredients and pour them into the cupcake tins.  Then I sent her off to bed and told her I'd have them frosted in the morning so she could decorate them before school.  Then I went to put them in the oven...

Once again, foiled by the English small sizes vs. the American super sizes.  My muffin tins did not fit in the oven.  Batter already poured in there.  No liners I could just pull out.

I spent the next hour or so baking cupcakes... continually turning them back and forth with part of them baking toward the back of the oven and some of them hanging out of the oven door. 

Not as easy as I had hoped.  But it worked!  Cupcakes stuck a bit to the bottom.  (Oh well.)  But we smothered them with frosting and topped them with chocolate stars and, from what I hear, they were a hit at the bake sale!