7 minutes of heaven...

I found a recipe I liked for the 7 minute frosting I wanted to make. It is from one of my favorite cookbooks called cupcakes! by Elinor Klivans. Martha's baking book used 6 egg whites- I wasn't trying to make icing for an army, so I went with the recipe using two egg whites.
It is pretty intense- you have to beat it over a double boiler for 7 minutes. Mine wasn't 160 yet, so I beat it two more. My arm was tired from holding the mixer like that! I looked over and Annika had done this:

She doesn't normally do stuff like that, but she does normally get all up in my personal space while I am trying to make icing, so I was impressed she was being so quiet.

It is as yummy as it looks. Travis and the girls prefer thicker icing, so I also made their favorite kind- cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. Beat it for about 10 minutes and it becomes so fluffy. No pics of those, but they were yummy. Here are the cupcakes with the 7 minute frosting on them.

Today we made a craft. We made little penguins. It was from "Your Big Backyard." It was really fun, but you pretty much have to do everything. You'll notice Annika added extra glue just for fun all over its face. She really likes to squeeze the glue.