Raw carrots.  I’m definitely not a fan of them.

Sure, that crunching sound they make when you chew them can be fun.  However, you can get the same sound from a potato chip.

Like most pups, I would sit as close as I could to the kitchen and wait patiently for Mom to finish cooking.  Hoping and praying that she’d either offer me a taste or accidently drop something on the floor.

After a while, patience seemed to wear a little thin.  So, when Mom would put her food on the table, I’d bark to get her attention.  That didn’t work.  I’d paw on Mom’s leg.  That got me a one-way ticket behind the gate.  And because I have the gift for sounding extremely pitiful, I even tried whining.  That didn’t work either.

Finally, one day Mom caved in and handed me a piece of raw carrot.

I thought, “Really!  Of all the amazing smells and dishes that come out of this kitchen, you give me a raw carrot to eat?”  It’s no secret that food, especially when it’s a pupcake, is my number one type of currency.

My puppy love has value, and I demand you pay me what I’m worth.  Pay me in pupcakes, not carrots.

I knew in that moment that I had to change my strategy.  This “begging” they teach you in puppy kindergarten was not working.  Now it’s time for me to negotiate.

I left that carrot on the floor and walked away.  It’s like they say…

It sets the tone for how much you get paid in every other role in the future.  So, you definitely want to get paid what you’re worth.  Negotiating also gets your currency, which gives you greater opportunity to build your wealth.  More importantly, negotiating tells others that you not only know your worth, but you’re not willing to accept anything less.

As females, sometimes we’re a little timid to negotiate how much we want to be paid.  We accept what’s being offered.  We might even feel that our request won’t be honored or we don’t deserve it.  Well, I’m here to tell you that we definitely do.  However, if we take the first step and ask for what we want, we can start building our portfolios earlier, which will give us more time to grow our wealth.  It’s only a matter of taking the first step in figuring out how to do it.

Now back to my first step.  Leaving that carrot on the floor was my first move in negotiating for what I wanted.  Now, I still had to eat a carrot.  However, it came in the form of a tasty pupcake.  And, you know what that means.  Another pupcake in the portfolio and a little more wealth building.

These Vegetable Pupcakes are dedicated to the power of understanding your value and taking the first step to negotiating to get the payment you want.

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’s one step you can take to practice negotiating?

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Ingredients

Vegetable Pupcakes

• ½ Cup Whole Wheat Flour
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
• ⅓ Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
• ¼ Cup Chopped Broccoli
• 1 Tablespoon Chopped Zucchini
• 1 Tablespoon Chopped Carrots
• 1 Egg

Instructions

Yields: 12 – 14 Mini Pupcakes

 For Vegetable Pupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 350° F.  Line 12 – 14 1.75-inch mini-muffin pan with paper bake cups and set aside.
2. In small bowl mix together flour and baking powder. Set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl add olive oil, applesauce, broccoli, zucchini, carrots and egg. Beat on medium speed about 2 minutes or until combined.
4. Add dry ingredients into the mixture and blend for approximately 2 minutes until well mixed.
5. Fill each cupcake liner with 1 tablespoon of pupcake mix.
6. Bake pupcakes for 12 minutes. Pupcakes are done when you can stick a toothpick into the cake and it comes out clean.  Remove from pan and cool on wire rack.

Notes

• Pupcake Sugar in no way provides any warranty, express or implied, relating to any recipes on this website. The recipes are based on Sugar’s personal experiences with them. Please be aware that your pup may have allergies or other conditions that may make the recipes not suitable for their lifestyle— consult with your vet as needed or roll with your judgment as the pet parent in charge. Pupcake Sugar is not liable for upset tummies or any other outcomes of experimenting with our recipes on this site.