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Although I’m typically not a follower of sports, I was excited to see Green Bay bring their A-game to the Super Bowl this year!  We hosted an epic party in Seattle: the keg was tapped, meat was grilled, and yummy football cupcakes were served!

I made the chocolate footballs with a candy mold and piped the grass around them – a lot of work, but worth it after the Packers’ victory.

Trey wasn’t feeling so well after the Steelers lost on Sunday, so I used some leftover party decorations to make his office more festive and cheer him up!

One of our test leads has been away from his office since mid-December, so it was high time for another office prank.  His love of  the nearby taco truck gave Darshan and I the idea to transform his office into a taco truck… which soon became more of a taco stand.  We took down his door and replaced it with a fully-functional counter-height door and decorated accordingly.

In keeping up the theme, I found this delicious recipe for Chocolate Chili cupcakes and made mini cupcakes to bring in to work.  I added a touch of chili powder to the cake recipe for fun (though I really only tasted the cayenne, which was fine).  I also used my own vanilla cream cheese frosting recipe in place of the chocolate one shown – the cream cheese is perfect with the bite that the spices gave the cake.  I topped off a few of the cupcakes with red hots and dyed a little frosting red and green to pipe chili peppers on the rest.

I made Double Rainbow cupcakes for my Double Rainbow themed birthday party this past weekend and was happy with the results – thanks to Andrew and Renee for helping me get these done!

The cupcakes were made with a simple white cake batter split into six bowls to be colored with food dye.  We made some with layers of colors and others just splashed in tie-dye style.  I topped them off with a piped mound of vanilla buttercream frosting and a few sprinkles (for the “other” rainbow).

These looked really cool on the multi-tier cupcake display with all the candles in place, but unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of them all set up!  I had an awesome time at my favorite neighborhood bar (The Bottleneck Lounge) with good food and great friends – thanks to all who made it out the other night to celebrate with me!

Happy Birthday to Frank, who is the only German I know of that doesn’t care much for beer!  We always give him a hard time at work and poke fun by offering him mojitos, so I figured these Mojito cupcakes were appropriate:

The recipe roughly follows the Betty Crocker recipe, though I topped it with vanilla/lime flavored buttercream frosting instead of whipped cream.

Well, folks, it’s been fun!  Sir Reginald von Burlington IV (my moustache) and I would like to thank everyone for your support over the last month!  Our team totalled $3,226 – while we didn’t beat Google, I think we put a healthy dent in the fight against men’s cancers.

I look forward to updating you again in the future, as we will soon be approaching Mullet March!  Just kidding, just kidding…