Bacon, Eggs and Buttercream

You know what I love most about Sunday mornings? The routine.
Every Sunday I get up around 8am (I know, it's the weekend, I should sleep in. But 8am is sleeping in!) and start the day by throwing a load of laundry in the wash. Then I survey the kitchen, what dishes are left from last night? are there beer bottles lying around? do we have bread? eggs? bacon? am I going to bake today? Once I have made my mental list, I wash up any of the dishes that are there, don a pair of yoga pants, a fleece zip up and head to the grocery store.
Usually, by Sunday mornings, we are out of bread and milk. Most Sundays, I am lazy and don't want to bake bread for breakfast so I'll cheat and buy a cheap, $2 loaf from the grocery store.
Today, I was excited to try out a new recipe from P-Dub's kitchen. (If you haven't heard of this blog, you seriously need to check it out. Both recipes I'll share are from her Tasty Kitchen) and I knew I needed a few things from the store. I love Sunday morning shopping. I really should do all my grocery shopping on Sunday mornings because the store opens at 6am and there is never, ever anyone there. AND they have self-checkout, one of my absolute favorite inventions of the last ... 10 years.
I digress, though!
So, I arrive home, change the loads of laundry, fold some towels, put on some coffee and turned on the trashy radio station that plays the songs kids in high school make out to on Friday Nights.
I started by putting the bacon on. In my mind, there is nothing better than slow cooking bacon in a frying pan and subsequently using the grease to fry eggs. YUM CORONARY! Simultaneously, I was whipping up a cake batter that is touted as "The BEST Chocolate Sheet Cake". It was different from other cakes I had made as far as process goes. But I have to say, it is the best chocolate sheet cake I've ever made/had! (I turned it in to cupcakes, btw) I kept laughing and hoping the delicious bacon smell didn't invade my cake batter...though maybe it did and that was why it was so good...no...definitely not. :)
As soon as I had 36 mini-muffin cups filled with batter, I put the eggs on and threw some bread in the toaster. This kitchen was rockin.
The eggs were perfect, the bacon was delicious, the coffee was strong and dark and the whole meal was perfect. At least, I thought so.
Just as I finished breakfast, the timer went off and it was the moment of truth: How did these little suckers turn out?
Answer?
Perfectly.
If you love chocolate cake or cupcakes and the best frosting you've ever had, you have to try these recipes, pilfered from PW's Tasty Kitchen.

Elsie P

PS - I left the camera at work so I'll take/post pics tomorrow.