Anything & Everything

I have had a recent and inexplicable obsession with cupcakes. Inexplicable due to the fact that they are extremely time-consuming and can require advanced skills when venturing to the regions of assorted cake types and, even more finicky yet, strange frosting flavours. The requirement time for butter softening, in addition to temperamental appliances and a grand lack of fundamental baking utensils, leads to the cute little dessert being the most unconventional baking basic in my very limited repertoire. However, that has yet to stop me from attempting. A balanced mix of incomprehensible stupidity and naive determination has convinced me that I can master every cupcake variation without requiring previous experience or the help of a highly experienced baker. And so, armed with misplaced confidence and inadequate knowledge I resolved to become a cupcake expert... and in the presently-ongoing process, failing miserably several times. My failures are documented in the forms of unused