I will admit that I have always been one of those think outside of the box people. People have even accused me of not knowing where the box is some days. ;) I see the world a little different at times, and I know I see food a little different. My mother once said to me, "I add some cranberries to pumpkin bread and think I am being creative. But you take it to a whole other level". And I must, because people do ask me all the time how I come up with my ideas. Um, I just do. It's how my brain thinks. And it usually is thinking how to make something have more calories. ;) When Lynn left my house on Friday I had 24 mini cinnamon cupcake staring at me unfrosted. The original cupcakes, the one in the book, had a sour cream chocolate frosting. That sounded good but for some reason oatmeal raisin popped into my head. Now most people would have made oatmeal raisin cupcakes and made cinnamon frosting. I did the other way around. I didn't want chunks of oatmeal in my frosting so I ran it … [Read more...]