Pretty in Pink (Yellow) Butter Cupcakes

Kelsey:
Lauren and I today actually did what we have been talking about for a long time, moving on in the book.
Now we were in the mood for big, frosted cupcakes not any of this mini or unfrosted stuff this book is filled with.
Towards the end of the book we found the answer to our cravings. Pretty in Pink Butter Cupcakes.
With ingredients we had there seemed promising.
We started with the beating of real butter and sugar only to find out the eggs and the mom were gone.Therefore A trip to Safeway with Glee ensued. Some 99 cent Grade B eggs later we were on our way.
The oven was hot so in went the cakes after Lauren fought the "lean fat" burger grease ocean.
The frosting tasted so good this time even though the food coloring box only had blue, green, green and yellow, of course the color we needed wasn't there.
We at this point are very excited.
Time to set the scene, with vases and flowers it looked so good, but nothing to how they tasted.
Pretty and perfect in pink.

SIARA: So...since i do nay cook, or go near cooking, i am the official bffcakes taste tester. No one really trusts my taste instincts, since i screwed them over by consuming massive amounts of salt..but they really had no other job for me so here i am. Let me first say, that i love my bffs more than almost anything (whopper jrs. come in a close second) so when i took that first awkward bite of what was to be "The GREATEST cupcake ever" according to lauren and kelc, i felt bad making the face i did. These cupcakes... just tasted...bleeegaigdia. I was so grateful that they made them, then brought them to me, but they just tasted...tasteless and bland. When you actually ate the frosting and the cupcake together (which i NEVER do, its always the top, then the bottom, separate) it tasted like those cookies you can get from Albertsons, the white cookies with the frosting and sprinkles on them, which i also never liked..so catch 22.
all in all...
i was nay impressed

Zoe: Siara is INSANE. I also love my BFFs, and I would never lie about the quality of their cooking, and I will say that THESE CUPCAKES WERE SO GOOD. I usually eat the bottom part and then the top part, in order of the parts I like. The cupcake part was just good but the frosting was the best I have ever tasted. It's hard to describe.... It was light and creamy and tasted very sweet, a buttery sweetness. AKA probably real bad for you. Oh well. I said "nom, nom, nom" while I ate my cupcake and afterwards I looked at the empty cupcake wrapper sadly. We definitely need to make these again so I can be there and fill my mouth with frosting while smiling contentedly.

Lauren:
I will now tell you step by step how this event took place--the event of the Pretty in Pink butter cupcakes. But as you already know.. they were never pink. So, here is the journey of our Pretty in Pastel Yellow Butter Cupcakes.

This book is so great, the pictures are beautiful, so.. we had to try and be as cool as they were, which means these cupcakes had to be fantastic. I noticed that in a lot of pictures, it's the color coordination of the cupcake paper cup things (do those have a name.. if not, they need one, if so, sue me) is what makes the cupcakes look so good. We only had white. So.. first step, check-ish.

So then.. we actually made the things. And we felt SO prepared, because the last time we made the Lemon Poppy seed Cupcakes we were missing a crucial ingredient (spoiler alert, butter flavored Crisco DOES NOT make cupcakes turn out like actual cupcakes). But this time, we had everything. Except for the fact Kelsey brought half and half instead of whipping cream but.. oh well. But then Kelsey says, "I need 3 eggs", I open the fridge to get them, and I find that.. there is nothing in the fridge. Like nothing. So after an emergency trip to Safeway, and a detour because Kelsey misleaded me by telling me there was a huge toad on the side of the road, we finally got to put the eggs in!

"It says beat for 30 seconds or until fluffy. (counts while beating) 29....30..... NOT FLUFFY." -Kelsey

16-18 minutes later they were DONE! And they looked beautiful. No joke. The last time we made cupcakes.. they looked like muffins. Also they were burnt. Also they were uncooked in the middle. Also they totally caved inward. But that doesn't matter anymore, because now we totally redeemed ourselves!

I KNOW RIGHT?! So cute. Then we made the frosting. And.. no yellow food coloring. But two tubes of green. How does that work?! So we decided to make Pretty In Pink Yellow cupcakes. Like... Y.... (I'm trying to think of an adjective that starts with Y to put with yellow..) Screw it, oh well. We went outside and got flowers to put in vases by the cupcakes so we could try and take pretty pictures just like the book did.. we did pretty well, considering I was behind the tablecloth holding it up the whole time! Overall, the cupcakes tasted SO GREAT. The frosting was so sweet. Which is always a plus. Kelsey put a whole spoonful of it into his mouth, like it was ice cream. That's how good it was!

And the best part was, we brought some to my mom, Siara, and Zoe and her family. But not my brother and his friend, to which Kelsey pointed out to me, "Flashback to 30 seconds ago when you said 'We don't need to keep them for ourselves it's just important that we share these with everyone!'". He had a point.