Catch of the Day Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes for Father's Day this year. They were adorable, but  too labor intensive. I will probably never make them again. I got the idea from a blog and it really did not look like it would have been that much work. I made 24 cupcakes from a standard box of cake mix. I used carrot cake and topped with a blue tie dyed cream cheese frosting. I also used a frosting tip to pipe it on. Now the labor intensive portion....I cut wood skewers into 2 pieces and threaded a needle with thin white thread. I poked the threaded needle through a gummy fish (from a shark fruit snack pack). Then, I tied the threaded fish onto the wooded skewer and put it on the cupcake. They looked really cute, but just too much work for one day:) A fun idea though if you have someone who likes to fish in the family.

Almost BW3

Wish I could've gotten a pic before the fam dug in!

I love hot wings! I really love BW3 boneless chicken wings (mild of course). I have had a pack of chicken drumlets from Whole Foods in my freezer for 6 months now, with the intention of finding a recipe for wing sauce similar to BW3. There is a set of cookbooks called Top Secret Recipes, where the author figures out recipes for popular food found in restaurants. In one book, I found the recipe for medium BW3 wing sauce. So, I decided to finally have them on Saturday night. I opened the lb. package to find 8 drumlets. Not enough to feed a family, so I bought some chicken breasts, cubed, breaded and baked them. The drumlets were boiled for 10 minutes and places under the broiler for 6 minutes on each side. So, they got crispy, but not fried...already healthier:) The wing sauce was super easy to make and was SO good. Tasted just the same. After it was done, I tossed the chicked pieces in it and voila!


MEDIUM WING SAUCE:
1 cup Frank's cayenne pepper sauce
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon granulated sugar 
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/8 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons water
2 teaspoons cornstarch
Combine all but last 3 ingrediants and bring to a boil than let simmer for 10 minutes. When mixture is off heat and cool, in a seperate bowl, mix last 3 ingrediants and add to sauce mixtures. Toss with chicken

Strawberry Breakfast Cake

Berries seem to be cheap at Sendiks this week, so yet another berry cake/bread idea. We made this last night for Sunday morning breakfast. It is a strawberry breakfast cake with mini chocolate chips. Simple ingrediants, not alot of sugar and yummy. Jackson helped me make a fruit salad to go along with it.  Here is the link for the cake. The fruit salad was one banana, 1 apple, 1 container strawberries, 1 container raspberries, 1 container blueberries, a handful of granola. You can eat this on its own or over greek yogurt.
http://batterlicker.com/2010/04/strawberry-and-chocolate-chip-buttermilk-muffin-cake/