Spice Cake Muffins!

I don’t think I’ve ever posted about cooking before, but I LOVE cooking.

I have the best memories of cooking with my parents, sister, and grandparents when I was little. When I was grown and married I made even more cooking memories with them and also with my husband’s folks, especially his granny.

Luckily, our families were the best at cooking, baking, and canning, and they took care to teach us all they know. My husband and I make a point to do the same for our children.

I recently had surgery—nothing major—but I haven’t been doing much cooking or anything. But today I decided to bake some spice cake muffins like my Mamaw used to. (Although she probably made them all from scratch.)

Spice Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Recipe

I used Betty Crocker Spice cake mix, prepared it according to the directions on the box and added some chopped walnuts.

While they were baking, I whipped up some icing. I used:

1 8oz block of cream cheese (softened)

1/2 a stick of salted butter (softened)

1 tbs vanilla flavoring

4 cups of confectioners sugar

I mixed the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla flavoring well with my mixer before adding in the sugar, one cup at a time.

After the cupcakes were done and cooled, I covered some of them with icing and sprinkled them with a few more chopped walnuts. So good! I left some without icing because that’s how some of my folks like them.

I’ll add pics if we don’t eat them all first.

We’re also cooking our own variation of Mississippi Pot Roast along with some stewed squash and butter beans.

While I’m just sitting around, recovering, I’ve been writing and researching. Tomorrow I will publish the first Mississippi Folklore blog post!

I’ve also been working on more posts for Writing From the Peak, and reading. I’ve kept pretty busy.

I should really buckle down and finish up the books I’ve started, but I got a copy of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, so I had to start it!

My hubby, boys, and mama have been so sweet in helping out around the house. I love ‘em to pieces!

I hope you have a blessed day, dear reader.

~ T