Sugar Pushes Herself Past Her Limits With These Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Pupcakes

You know what I love about baking pupcakes?  You get to actually sample them.

Every pupcakes that’s made its way to Pupcake Sugar has been “Sugar tested and Sugar approved.”  There’s no way that a pupcake is making it to a customer if it doesn’t have my very own stamp of approval.

The way I see it, baking is an art.  Developing new ways to combine flavors is one of my favorite things to do.  It’s where I completely zone out and channel my creative spirit.  All I need is a little ingredient inspiration, a kitchen and some pupcake pans, and I’m ready to paint (or shall I say bake) my canvas.

And if my creative pup brain is really on overdrive, watch out.  I can easily start experimenting with two recipes at one time.  And what good is baking pupcakes if you can’t eat them?  Plus, how can I talk intelligently about each flavor if I have no idea how they taste?

One day, I got really ambitious with my pupcake experimenting.  I’d been inspired by several ingredients I still had in my kitchen.  I was also inspired by several stories of trips my pup friends had taken recently.  And since this pup business owner was hard at work while they were taking their last vacations for the summer, I decided to incorporate my past vacation experiences into the flavors of my pupcakes.

So, I got to work on not one, not two, but five different pupcake flavors.  There I was.  All alone in my zone, baking pupcakes in my kitchen.  I was mixing and pouring and sprinkling my little pup heart out.

As I placed the pupcakes into the oven, I waited patiently for them to be done.  However, as I pulled each one of them out, each one came out a little different.

While the first pupcake came out even and perfect, the second pupcake didn’t even rise.  While the third pupcake was evenly baked in the allotted time, the fourth and fifth needed more time to bake in the oven. 

And, let’s not forget the taste.  Each pupcake tasted exactly the same and ironically, I couldn’t even tell the difference.  So, it was extremely hard to not just figure out what went wrong with each pupcake recipe, but how I can improve them. 

So, I concluded that experimenting with five new pupcake flavors at one time, was probably not a good idea.  However, in the words of Jonathan Cainer…

Well, pushing myself past my limits has always been a way for me to learn and grow, especially as a pup business owner.  Almost everything I do requires me to stretch a little bit past my limits.

However, I’ve also realized that there are certain times where you have to admit to yourself that there is a limit to what you can do.  If we push ourselves too far, we can reduce the quality of our work.  We can even waste too much time and energy with our creative pup spirit.

I’ve learned that testing out too many pupcake recipes at one time can lead to a disaster.  None of my pupcakes turned out the way that I wanted them.  So, I’ve learned that my limit has to be experimenting with one pupcake recipe flavor at a time.

And if I get a sudden burst of creative pupcake ideas at one time, then I’m going to have to write them all down and do one at a time.  Once I get the first pupcake flavor right, I can move on to the next. 

Creating my limits doesn’t hinder my ambition nor does it confine me to my comfort zone.  It actually makes me more strategic in my ambition and gives me the creative space to expand my vision altogether.

So, these Pumpkin Pupcakes With Peanut Butter Cream Frosting are dedicated to pushing our limits, so that we know what they actually are.

And of course, we believe that every pupcake has a love story.  So, while your favorite pup is PUPPY LOVIN’ on these pupcakes, we’d love to hear from you.

What have you learned about yourself by pushing yourself past your limits? 

Please share your pupcake story in the box below.