Annual Cupcake Day

Don't spit on my cupcake and tell me

it's frosting.

-Judge Judy

I hereby declare today, April 11, as 'Annual Cupcake Day' at Freeman House. Enter at your own risk.

First thing you should know today: I haven't had any coffee yet. The second part of the first thing is... no - I did not make or take any of these pictures. My camera is off today, apparently, telling me that it cannot "complete file transfer" and some such, so I am without original photos. I will have to share my new herbal knowledge (including how to easily root rosemary and brew your own blend of tea) another day. Oh well.

Second thing: I promise I am not trying to mercilessly torture us... you and me. I'm just offering up proof that a girl must have an annual cupcake day, at minimum, to be truly satisfied in this life. Exhibit A: the cupcake uploaded on Pam Garrison's flickr group yesterday. Doesn't just one look at that baked beauty have you daydreaming of lovely things already?

Not long ago I discovered that cupcakes are my very favorite dessert. Really. When planning my wedding I decided I wanted to do a tower of buttercream cupcakes instead of a traditional cake. I got neither. I'm still bent on having a cupcake tower, gosh to Pete, if I have to invent an occasion. (Like an Annual Cupcake Day at Freeman House.)

So here goes. I will be spending the entire late afternoon paying homage to the first Annual Cupcake Day. I will be establishing the official dessert of Freeman House. I will be dusting off my favorite cupcake recipe and littering the house with cupcake liners. After mixing in ideas from Martha Stewart's A Whole Year of Cupcakes , I will add Alicia Paulson's Cloudburst Frosting to the party. Together my recipes, liners, frosting and sprinkles and I will have a blast. There will be a mini tower of cupcakes before the days end. And when I am finished, we will have reached cupcake heaven, and the nursing home by the highway will have lots of sugar to contend with.

Sure wish you were here. I can honestly think of nothing better than a sunny spring day of cupcakes with you! Next year, I will invite you all in advance. We'll make a day of it. A glorious cupcake day of it..