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So I finally did it, I baked for a wedding! Back in May, I was honored when a fellow classmate asked me if I would bake cupcakes for her wedding. I have always joked around about being up for hire for occasions like this but I never thought that I would actually ever have someone ask me to bake for them for such a special occasion. For the wedding I made champagne cupcakes, limoncello cupcakes, and chocolate raspberry filled cupcakes. According to some of my other classmates that attended the wedding, the cupcakes were all a hit!
Oh how I've missed my kitchen! After being away for nine weeks of vacation and my summer rotation, I could not wait to get back and start cooking! Before taking on baking cupcakes for a classmates wedding, I wanted to make something I've been wanting to make for awhile, stuffed bell peppers!
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| The McKenzie River |
Well so far I have survived working 40 hour work weeks in the Pharmacy! This week is my final week here in Eugene and this past weekend a friend and I decided we wanted to go site seeing. After asking around finding out what we absolutely had to see before leaving, we settled on taking a little hiking/ camping trip up by the McKenzie River. If I wasn't already in love with the area, I definitely am now! It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL and we had so much fun! I just thought I would share a few pictures with you all for you to enjoy as well.
I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July! I wanted to do a special post for the 4th but haven't had any time to make it into the kitchen! As some of you might know, I am back in Oregon, Eugene to be exact, and am two weeks into my four week summer rotation for pharmacy school. This is the first time in my life that I have had to work 40 hours a week and to top it off I'm not even getting paid, in fact, I actually had to pay almost $14,000 in tuition this summer just so I could work 40 hours a week. Funny how that works but I guess it is a small price I have to pay to become a pharmacist!
Anyway, before I came back to Oregon I had a special request from my boyfriend to make him some Key Lime Cheesecake Bars. I found this recipe last year on Sprinkle Bakes and made it a few times and everyone who tried them loved them!
Anyone who has been to Portland in the past ten years has probably heard of Voodoo Doughnuts. Voodoo Doughnuts has become famous for creating some of the most unusual doughnuts, including the Nyquil Glazed doughnut and the Vanilla Pepto Crushed Tums doughnut. Needless to say, after health officials found out about these doughnuts they were pulled from the menu. Now, one of the most popular doughnuts at Voodoo is their Bacon Maple Bar.
Last year when I first came to Portland for my pharmacy school interview, my boyfriend and I made a trip to Voodoo to try some of their famous doughnuts. Knowing how much my dad loves bacon, I made sure to take a Bacon Maple Bar back to him and he LOVED it! This year when father's day rolled around I knew I wanted to try and recreate the doughnut but in cupcake form!
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but these cupcakes turned out AMAZING and I'm not even that big of a bacon person!
