November 12, 2007: Mac & Cheese Cupcakes

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Naturally, the weekend was spent carefully planning together with preparing my offerings. I needed to lead nutrient that could live on created inwards advance, transported easily via tram, preferably finger-friendly to portion amidst the crowd, together with served either at room temperature or hot out of the pizza oven. Sweets were slowly - alongside ingredients I already had on hand, I whipped upwards a double batch of quiz;

Sarah is seriously psyched for all things edible inwards Germany;

Purple Goddess is equally crazy together with funny (and purple-wearing) equally yous would approximate from her blog;

Sticky is genuinely close equally boisterous;

Anna is a down-to-earth daughter on a never-ending bespeak for proficient eating inwards the outer suburbs;

Katie is a dab manus at maneuvering a scary-hot pizza oven;

Duncan is a refined gent alongside the careful attending to item required for proficient spider web design, cake decorating and, yes, perfectly formed salted caramel macarons;

Jon is the slightly shy novel minor fry on the block, but he real effectively broke the H2O ice alongside a plate of homemade chocolate truffles;

Josh is inwards no means the expanding human being - where tin he maybe live on storing all that food?

Jackie is the go-to daughter for Melbourne's eating seat gossip;

Claire is a fashionable gal who tin set anyone at ease alongside her gentle conversation;

Thanh is only who I imagined him to be, but fifty-fifty quicker to smiling together with laugh;

Vida's was the most reassuring appear upwards I could maybe bring seen equally I timidly entered the garden gate.

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