Pimp my red velvet chocolate heartache

I've had one hell of a busy evening today making red velvet cupcakes, the basis of some chocolate truffles and trying to also squeeze in some exercise and writing this blog post. It's all in the name of charity of course and I had a lot of solitary fun doing it!

I decided that I would make some cupcakes to take into work tomorrow. The purpose is to get them all hooked on sugar and agitating for more cake so that when I have a cake sale, hopefully next week if I can find time to bake the goods, they will all be addicted and pay me lots of money for them, mwahaha (that's an evil plan laugh btw). Kind of like a cake pimp. I said this today to someone and they have been calling me pimp cake ever since. Makes it sound so much more seedy than it really is.

Here's a sneak preview of my wares:

I also learnt how to frost rose petals today - it's so easy I can't believe I never tried it before! I'm definitely going to be pimping/blinging my cakes with those bad boys soon.

I did also manage a quick run, well some interval training. Will see tomorrow morning if the dreaded shin splints return. It felt good though to get out in the fresh air and do some exercise and luckily the snow had mostly thawed out drastically cutting my chances of serious injury. Will have to do a bit more to burn off these cakes though!