#LanLovett

I'm kind of old to be getting into instagram.  When my sister told me that my bakes are "pinterest worthy" and recommended that I start using my instagram account to help start up a home bakery, I filed the idea away in the back of my mind.  Who knows if I even want a home bakery?  Would anyone even buy my bakes if they cost more than grocery store cupcakes and went stale more quickly due to my refusal to use mounds of shortening?  Besides, there's already a great baker (owner of Simply Cake) in the neighborhood I'm moving to, and I'd never want to step on any toes.  But then again, who knows.  At the top of my blog, it reads, "First you're another Sloe-eyed vamp. Then someone's mother, then you're camp.  Then you career from career to career.  I'm almost through my memoirs.  And I'm here."  Maybe just thinking about a home bakery is my version of moving from career to career.

Fast forward to this week.  One of my best friends is throwing a birthday party for her 8-year-old son on Saturday, and I'll be baking for it.  The time has come, the walrus said, to expand from my 3 blogger followers to all 45 on instagram.  Not to brag, but one of them is a random landscaping business.  Just kidding, that one is deleted now.

I'll make my first post on Saturday with #LanLovett.  Nellie Lovett is the owner of the bakehouse in my favorite musical.  In fact, whatever my second favorite musical is, is a very distant second.  If "Mrs. Lovett's bakehouse" rings a bell, good for you.  If not, resist the urge to look it up, and focus instead on the the word "Lovett."  It sounds so sweet, doesn't it?

Okay, I'm going to publish this now.  It will hold me accountable, and some day I'll look back on this post and remember how one time I considered opening up a home bakery.  Tomorrow, tune in for a 2.5 layer vanilla cake decorated in American buttercream, golden sprinkles, and cocoa cookies sandwiched with Ghirardelli white candy melts.  On Saturday, I'll make two dozen black magic cupcakes filled with marshmallow frosting and topped with whipped cream frosting, cocoa cookies, and white and gold nonpareils.  The theme is puppy dogs!

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It's Friday.  Today I made the cake and cocoa cookie toppers for tomorrow's cupcakes.

Cake Decorating Cookies

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Cupcake Cookie Toppers

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Vanilla Cakes Filled with Vanilla Buttercream

Crumb Coated

Golden Sprinkles & Doggie Fur

Cookies, Cookies, Everywhere

Big Ol' Claws

Ezrah's Doggie Cake

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It's Saturday, and I'm posting just an hour before the party!  Here we go.

Cindy's Black Magic Cupcakes

Getting Cored

All Ready to Go

Thick Sticky Marshmallow Frosting

Filled to the Brim

Frosted with Whipped Cream

Topped with Cocoa Cookies

Sprinkled with Nonpareils

Nearly Packed Up

Plenty of Cake

Happy Birthday, Ezrah!