Day 137: Moose Madness

Today consisted of Bones, Publix, studying, delicious dinner, and a herd of moose (mooses, meese, moosies). For dinner we had crab stuffed mushrooms (among other sides). They were sooooo yummy! Applause to the fabulous Paula Deen for the recipe. For Christmas, my cousins gave me What's New Cupcake, a cupcake decorating book. For my birthday they sent me all the things I needed to make Moose Cupcakes. So after dinner, Danielle and I attacked the instructions. It took forever!!! But totally worth it. They are SO CUTE! First, look at a picture of them.

The head part is part of a Twinkie. The Twinkie is not very balance-able. So the instructions call for you to attach the Twinkie with frosting and then freeze it in place. As you know, dorm room mini-fridges don't have a lot of room for moose heads, so we had to get creative. We transported the herd downstairs to the ice machine where we made a flat bed of ice and let the herd rest for a bit. For future reference, that doesn't really work. The cookie sheet got cold, but not the meese. Anyways. Next step was to "dip" the mooses in melted frosting for a coating. Well... dipping is really hard to do in a container that isn't deep enough to hold the cupcake while the Twinkie is slipping off the cupcake due to the freezing failure. So I ended up dripping the melted frosting on top and Danielle finger painted the frosting to make it look even. After 30 minutes waiting for the herd to dry, I finished decorating them with Tootsie Roll ears, melting chocolate antlers, and m&ms for eyes and nose. The finished moosies are so adorable!

Mine is named Melvin, Danielle's Blob, and Raychel's Charlie the Chocolate Moose. I also named all the rest (besides Danielle's roommates since he was taken into custody before he could be named). I haven't tried to eat Melvin yet because I naturally had my fill of the ingredients before they were all assembled, but hopefully tomorrow we can discover what mooses taste like.

Also, I'd like to address the fact that the only correct form of the word moose is moose. Not mooses or meese or moosies. For future reference. Although.... Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen understand me!