Two Browns With Green Thumbs: Yes, I Know the Muffin Man

The rainy weather outside forced us to spend our entire evening inside, but it didn't dampen our fun!Earlier today, E was watching one of his favorite DVDs of children's songs. One of the songs on the DVD is the muffin man song. He loves this song. Any time we see cupcakes or muffins or anything of that sort, he starts saying "the muffin man" over and over and over again. Today when we were watching it he turned to me and said, "Mommy, I want cuh-cake!" We didn't have any cupcakes, so I replied, "Honey, we don't have any cupcakes. Maybe we can make some later." And so we did.

After dinner, we cleaned up the kitchen, pulled out our aprons and made cupcakes. I had discovered earlier in the day that we were out of yellow cake mix, and we had purchased two huge containers of strawberries at Sam's earlier today, so I Googled for a recipe for strawberry cupcakes from scratch. Most of those recipes called for you to puree the strawberries then strain out the seeds. We didn't have time for that! So I went with a plain cupcake recipe and added small strawberry pieces.

We had so much fun making these cupcakes together, as you will see from the pictures below!

As soon as the muffin tins were brought out, E started yelling, "The muffin man!" As he put the liners in the cups, he continued saying it, so we asked him, who is the muffin man. He told us that HE is the muffin man!