cupcake: a new feature!

Hi all!! I started a baking blog last spring and really enjoyed posting on it while I was in between jobs, but once I found employment again, I ceased to post any longer. I've recently decided that maintaining one blog is more than engough for me so I'm going to have a weekly feature here on 'My {Garden State} of Mind', which will consist of a Cupcake of the Week post. This feature is going to consist of scrumptious cupcake recipes of all sorts, as well as my favorite cupcakes from bakeries all over New Jersey!! I hope you all enjoy this new feature, because I'm so happy to add one of my other passions in life to my blog! Enjoy the first Cupcake post below!

   Today's cupcake of the day comes from a bakery in Rutherford, NJ called, Sweet Avenue Bakeshop. I've chosen their Lavender Lemon cupcake. Reason 1, because I always wanted to try a lavender cupcake and 2, because Sweet Avenue's looks absolutely scrumptious!! 

    The Lavender Lemon cupcake is a lemon cake filled with fresh lemon curd, and topped with fresh lavender frosting. Doesn't it just sound soo delicious!? Here's a photo of this sweet perfection!

Oh, and did I mention that every single, delicious cupcake the amazing people at Sweet Avenue bake is completely vegan and/or 100% gluten free!!! Pretty rad, huh? I thought so too!

Have you ever tried a lavender cupcake before? How was it? 

weekly wishlist

I used to have a feature on this blog known as 'wishlist wednesday,' but I really didn't committ to it and my execution was all wrong. While I still really like the idea of doing a 'wishlist' feature on my blog, I have to adapt the concept to fit me. As you can probably tell, I don't post as often as I would truly like to, which is why commiting to a post every day is total out of the question! I'm going to change my Wednesday wishlist to 'weekly wishlist,' this way I can still post my weekly wishes without having to remember to do it every Wednesday.[i know you can schedule blog posts, but 1. I always forget you can do that & 2.i like to write and then post, it's just one of those things...

Soo you can check back here throughout the upcoming week for my first official 'weekly wishlist!' It will be comprised of about 3-5 things I wish to have during that specific week..

I was going to have the actually post written [right here], but I have rambled way too much to keep anyone's attention this long. I will instead post my wishes within the next few days, so make sure to be on the look out if your interested to see what I'm wishing for this week!

Thanks for stopping by and reading my little update about GSoM!

Have a terrific Thursday everyone!