Cupcake for Obama, from me.

I made you a cupcake, Mr. Obama.

One of the things that my wife wanted for her birthday two weeks ago was for me to make her cupcakes and have/help her decorate them. Oh, and I had to make some pink icing from scratch. I’m not much of a baker, but they turned out Okay. And very pink. As I made her two dozen cupcakes, I could not resist making one for Barack Obama because, dang it, I get tears in my eyes when I think of what the country — the world — would be like with him as a leader. Seriously. I’m choking up right now.

And these, my first venture into cupcaking, are heart-shaped because that is what the Mrs. wanted when she saw them. We don’t actually own cupcake/muffin tins, so using these and recycling them worked out better than buying pans we will never really use.

Though I was planning on making more cupcakes shaped like the planet (LOL) for a possible Earth Day picnic I was hoping to have the day before Earth Day in April. Unfortunately, that picnic might now work out. Sad. I know, everyday should be Earth Day, but Earth Day is a good time to remind Republicans and other folks on the right that the planet is not a damned political issue. Some possible Republic Presidential candidates seem to realize this, but I have heard two intelligent men I know joke that there is no such thing as global warming. Yeah, and smoking is good for you, and coffee puts you to sleep. Right.

[Oh, and I got my father to eat Mr. Obama's cupcake, to get him to vote for a non-Satanic figure this time around.]