So it begins....

My name is Lauri. I am a "stay at home mom", who doesn't really stay at home at all. My 2 children, Makayla and Dylan, and my husband Tom are the loves of my lives. Everything I do is centered around their activities. Dylan started preschool this year and with this coming up I started thinking about what I want to be when I grow up. Hmmmm, tough question when you are 30, have 2 children that you still need to raise, and really have no clue. I have always loved making cupcakes. I love how pretty they can be. Truthfully I usually made them out of a box and then decorated them with a few sprinkles. But I always admired the REALLY pretty ones. So I started experimenting, and after a few batches in the garbage, started learning what it takes to make a good cupcake. A good base and a good top....simple? Not so much. I love to make up a new recipe and take it to my very willing taste testers and get their opinion. I have a great mix of people. I am a frosting girl myself so I was surprised at how many people loved the cake part more. I even have one friend that could do without frosting at all! So a good moist (that is my BFF favorite word BTW) cake and a super yummy frosting, not too sweet, but just right....After much prompting by friends I decided to try my skills at running my own cupcake business. I came up For the Love of Cupcakes and have had so much fun helping people. So here are my baking and decorating adventures of those experiments and my wonderful clientele that helps me be able to "figure out what I want to be when I grow up"!