Last year, when I transitioned the blog from strictly personal finance to a lifestyle blog, I started documenting my attempts at completing recipes, projects, and assorted other things I found on Pinterest. I stopped when we moved and never started it up again.
Until now.
As part of my Choose Your Own Adventure Challenge for November, I’m working on organizing my Pinterest boards (full details on what else is in the challenge coming up tomorrow) and I thought this would be a good time to resurrect Pinterest Project Tuesday.
So let’s get to it. 
I’m terrible at remember to take pictures so for the first post for the resurrection, I’m showing you guys a project I worked on over the summer. Next week’s will be a new, more seasonal one. I promise.
Okay.
Here’s the ingredients I used (not pictured: the stuff used to make the cake batter like eggs and applesauce)
While I mixed the batter, my helper put the cupcake liners in the pans
The cupcakes baked in the oven and I got out my blue food dye
Then I mixed it with the vanilla frosting (note: I usually make my own frosting but I didn’t have shortening and ain’t nobody got time to run to the grocery store twice in one day)
After the cupcakes came out of the oven and cooled, I generously applied water blue frosting on each one because really, cupcakes are just holders for frosting
Then, because this was supposed to be an edible version of bears floating in inner tubes, I added the gummi Lifesavers “tubes” and put Teddy Graham bears inside each one:
Lastly, because we can’t have our bears getting sunburned, I added cocktail drink umbrellas. On the left is my version. On the right is the Pinterest version.
Save for the Christmas wrapper (remember what I said about not going to the store twice?), I didn’t screw the pooch too badly on this one. It turned out better than my usual attempts, as you’ll see going forward.
And now is when I announce that I’m going to try this as a linkup next week, but on Thursday instead of Tuesday since next Tuesday, November 11, is when Steph and I want you to show us your books in our monthly book chat.
Have you guys tried any Pinterest projects lately? How’d they turn out?
hey!! they turned out great!! and if you have coconut milk lying around, you can use that as your base for frosting too (healthier and sooo yummy) 🙂
kathy@vodka and soda recently posted…weekend recap | november goals
That’s a good alternative, although I never have coconut milk laying around. I don’t know that I’ve ever bought it except once to make pumpkin soup.
Adorable cup cakes. I get so wrapped up in the internet, that Pinterest puts me over the edge. I feel like I would fall into that hole and never get out. BUT- I love that it is a vision board.
So I may get working on mine!
Love- SMD’s Momma
I definitely have to limit myself when I’m on there. Otherwise I can go crazy!
These are so cute! Great job!
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I think I pinned a similar recipe on Pinterest but haven’t tried them yet. I love Pinterest for finding all sorts of projects or inspiration.
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A Pinterest success in my book! I try Pinterest stuff but always fail, unless they are just recipes, then I’m good. I’m bad at decorating food and such.
you’re so fancy!!! wish i was this awesome.
i cannot wait for the 11th… i have read so many books and i want to keep reading but don’t want 20 books on my post lol
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I mostly only use Pinterest for storing recipes and sometimes looking at cute outfits. I think your cupcakes turned out really cute! Love the little life preservers.
Sarah @ Beauty School Dropout recently posted…November goals, and October goals in review
I never try pinterest projects but I should, I pin them with intention if that matters. 🙂
I love the cupcakes, I should do that for Little K’s birthday.
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They look great! I’m impressed.
I’d rather die than go to the store twice in one day. I mean, that’s dramatic, but HELL NO.
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These turned out so adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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