Thank You.

This week, I got a flat tire.  It was pretty great.  It happens about once every two weeks or so.  Because my car hates me.  Seriously.  I woke up the other night, and it was standing over me with a pillow in it's hands.  I was like "Penny!  What's this all about?"  She dropped the pillow and zoomed back down to the driveway like nothing happened.  I keep a boot on her front tire at night now.  It was the rear one that went flat.

And one of my extended family members came to help me.  Because the lug nuts were stripped.

And so, I had this brilliant plan.  I was going to make cupcakes, using modelling chocolate, I was going to create a flat tire and one of those "x" shaped tie wrenches, and various other flat tire related chocolate pieces to top a cupcake.


But, the modeling chocolate was a failure.  I believe in documenting my failure.  The end product is a non-newtonian substance.  It's a total disaster.

So, I only had the candy molds on hand, all Halloween.  So I whipped up some ganache.  Which, by the way, turned out fantastic.

And I cored the cupcakes, and filled them, topped them with milk chocolate frosting and candy pumpkins.  Then I sprinkled with purple and orange sugar.

Aren't they lovely?  Here's another set:

Those are chocolate Pumpkins, bats and a chocolate/peanut butter guitar.

Overall, The failure of the modeling chocolate totally messed up my day and threw me off.   So, I never even completed the stuff I was going to complete.  Le Sigh.  Le Sigh.

But someone is eating well tomorrow!  And hopefully they will enjoy.