Step in Time

I can relate a lot of my life experiences to music. I guess that is because growing up I played piano, clarinet, dabbled in the cello and guitar and was always involved in some kind of singing/dancing group. Then I ended up marrying a music minister...so go figure.

This time of year I love music in more ways than you can imagine. For one things, we have already been fully immersed in our Christmas music at church for over a month now. Plus I can just hear the drum warming up at the local high school just behind our church almost everyday for band practice. This brings back so many memories of the LONG, fun, LONG, hot, LONG hours spent on the marching band field standing on the metal podium at least 15 ft in the air. But I will have you know that I LOVED every minute of it and miss it greatly.

All these memories flooded  my mind today for some reason, but then other songs, as I was working around the house today, started spinning too. These are songs of Disney. For you see, I am going to be surprising our little princess with tickets to see Disney on Ice tomorrow! I am so excited to see her face tonight and even tomorrow when we go! Thanks to a great friend, Jennifer, and her awesome talents, we will be arriving in style!

However, I couldn't let all my excitement let me miss a "step in time". (Can't you hear the chimney sweepers singing from Mary Poppins?!) Today, I knew that my pin of choice was to return back to food. I am preparing desserts for a dinner we will be attending this weekend. One of the 4 desserts was chosen from Pinterest, one was a new one that I will write about in tomorrow's post, and the other two are some of my tried a trues. The idea from Pinterest got me even more excited about fall.

Candy Corn Cupcakes! I don't know about you but candy corn is one of my biggest weaknesses during fall. Especially, the ones I can get from the Fresh Market in Huntsville. They have these cinnamon ones come Christmas time that just lighten the mood of any day good or bad. Any ways...these cupcakes actually came from a professional bakery in California. So I took the picture and idea a step further and made my batter in candy corn layers too. Much like this rainbow cake. I will later be decorating my tray with candy corn pieces just to add the special!

What kind of goodies are you baking up this fall? Feel free to leave a comment below.

Cupful of Blessings,
Carri