Let Them Eat Cupcakes

It’s summer, and you know what that means, summer training. Although, unfortunately, I have to take it a bit easy from a recent boxing injury to my right shoulder.

Fruit smoothie for dem vitamins.
Fruit smoothie made with: raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches, mangoes, grapes, mangoes, and rhubarb.

Chocolate chip toasted coconut ice cream.

Spiced chocolate coffee ice cream.

Chipotle mango pulled pork with rice.

Vanilla spiced shortbread cookies with dried strawberries and dark chocolate. For JT

Spiced carrot cake with molasses and Greek yogurt frosting.

Blondies with chunks of dark chocolate and chunky peanut butter. Also made ones with dark chocolate and strawberries.

Flourless, sugarless chocolate cake muffins.

All about dat brotein, baby.

Healthy ice cream alternative: made with fresh strawberries, mango, pear, pineapple, coconut milk, and Greek yogurt.

A delicious bumblefuck of flavors.

Cake for a client.
White cake, Nutella buttercream, and covered in chocolate ganache. Astros star logos made out of fondant for decoration.

Hi, I’m Lauren, and I’ll be your host with Cooking for Poor People.

Don’t have a rolling pin? No problem! Use a spray can and wrap it with saran wrap so it doesn’t get dirty. Extra fondant? Wrap it up with the saran after you’re done rolling, because you’re too cheap to use another roll. Also, shot glasses are excellent for mixing food dye colors.

Cake for a client.
White cake, vanilla butter cream frosting. Ombre cake layers (white, light orange, and dark orange).
Orange colors and paw print for client’s favorite team, the Clemson Tigers.