I’ve always wanted to be a pup business owner.
However, the hard part was figuring out what type of pup business owner I wanted to be. More importantly, I couldn’t even decide what skills I had or what I was actually good at doing.
You see. While I was in school, I was that type of pup that did well in everything. I excelled in bark language arts and in pup-ology. I could recite the “Pup-thagorem Theorem” backwards and forwards, and quote any “pup-story” fact from present day to the beginning of time.
And, let’s not forget that I got an even score on my PSAT’s (Pup Scholastic Aptitude Test) in math and bark. Neither score was higher than the other, which made it very hard to decide on a major when applying to Huffton University.
It was safe to say that I’m adaptable, but the question still remained.
What am I good at?
I thought if I got a real answer to that question, I’d be able to determine what kind of pup business owner I was destined to be. I spent years taking pup personality tests, asking pup friends about my strengths, going to pup business conferences and researching career paths to determine the direction I should go.
However, it all ended up with the same result. Nothing. My pup insecurities even started to creep up on me. For years, I felt like I didn’t fit. I even began to think that I didn’t have any skills to be a successful pup business owner. I’d watch my pup friends excelling in their pup careers and wondered when was my turn.
One day, the answer hit me. My BFF asked me if I knew of any resources that could help her teach nudges to her puppies at school. As a matter of fact, I thought, I knew several. So, I gathered all of the information I had and gave it to her. And, these resources turned out to be exactly what she needed.
As I thought harder, I realized that a lot of pups ask me if I know any resources for what they need. They also come to me for random advice on how to solve a problem. And, it also dawned on me that when I bark, other pups actually listen.
So, there they were…my soft skills.
Soft skills are all of those talents, abilities and “knacks for…” we have for certain things. While the hard skills, such as “pubic barking”, “pup branding” and “barketing” go on our pup resumes or bring them up in an interview, our soft skills are how we package them together. It’s the foundation for how you use your creativity.
And in the words of Eckhart Tolle…
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
The abundance in my little pup life came as soon as I started cultivating my soft skills. It’s when I started tapping those pup life experiences that never made it to my resume. It was channeling on all the hobbies I had, such as baking, that I’d do even if I wasn’t paid for it.
It was even paw pointing all those things that I didn’t mind doing that other pups needed, but hated. All of those things became the foundation to my journey and the catalyst to what is now Pupcake Sugar.
In a nutshell, focusing on all those things that I loved, helped me identify those soft skills. And, true to form those soft skills ignited my creative spirit to bring my dreams to life.
So, these Banana Spinach Pupcakes With Peanut Butter Cream Frosting are dedicated to doing what you love and packaging it to live the life of your dreams.
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 are your soft skills? How have they helped you as you work towards your dream goals?
Please share your pupcake story in the box below.
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Yields
- 12 – 14 Mini Pupcakes
Ingredients
Banana Spinach Pupcakes
- 1/2 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
- 1/3 Cup Plain Yogurt
- 1 Mashed Banana
- 1/4 Cup Chopped Spinach
- 1 Egg
Peanut Butter Cream Frosting
- 3 Tablespoons Plain Yogurt
- 1/4 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter (unsalted with no added sugars)
Instructions
For Banana Spinach Pupcakes
- 1Preheat oven to 350° F. Line 12 – 14 1.75-inch mini-muffin pan with paper bake cups and set aside.
- 2In small bowl mix together, flour and baking powder. Set aside.
- 3In a large mixing bowl add olive oil, yogurt, banana, spinach and egg. Beat on medium speed about 2 minutes or until combined.
- 4Add dry ingredients into the mixture and blend for approximately 2 minutes until well mixed.
- 5Fill each cupcake liner with 1 tablespoon of pupcake mix.
- 6Bake 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.
- 7Spread or pipe peanut butter cream frosting onto the pupcakes.
For Peanut Butter Cream Frosting
- 1In large mixing bowl beat yogurt and peanut butter together on medium speed. Mix until creamy.
- 2Spread or pipe peanut butter cream frosting onto the pupcakes.
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.