Those marketing folk at the RSPCA are a clever bunch..no? Can there be a better combination, cute animals and yummy cupcakes!

Monday August 18th (a day after my birthday!) is Cupcake Day for the RSPCA. RSPCA Cupcake Cooks across Australia will descend on their schools, workplaces and social groups with batches of yummy homemade cupcakes to sell. With 100% of the proceeds will go to the RSPCA.

Whether you want to be an RSPCA Cupcake Cook or simply an RSPCA Cupcake eater, you will be supporting the thousands of animals we care for everyday.

To get involved and host your own Cupcake party all you need to do is go to the site and register your details and the will send you a Cupcake kit for all the details you will need to know for the day! Or you can download it from the site.

Anyone can get involved to bake or eat cupcakes for the animals. I think I will be going on a weekend long cupcake baking and eating bender!

They even have animal friendly cupcake recipes for our furry families!

Pupcakes

Here’s a special occasion, sweet treat for your pups. Remember, to serve up these doggy cupcakes in
moderation, we don’t’ want your poodle addicted to strudel!
2 3/4 cups water
1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups wholemeal flour
1 cup dried apple pieces – you can also use fresh fruit
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 egg, beaten slightly
4 tablespoons honey
Preheat oven to 175 degrees. Spray muffin tin with cooking spray.
Mix all wet ingredients thoroughly. Combine dry ingredients in separate bowl.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients slowly , scraping well to make sure no dry mixture is left.
Pour into muffin tins.
Bake for 1 1/4 hours. Insert a toothpick into the centre of a pupcake and if it comes out dry, they are ready to come out of the oven.
Wait until cooled to serve.
Store in a sealed container.
Makes around 12-14 pupcakes.

Cupcake Day for the RSPCA

This is my first time joining Screw up Tuesday. The lovely Bettina started Screw up Tuesday, a day to share your screw ups ( I think I could use every day of the week)

Last Wednesday, went off to the gym..as I do every day. The lockers at the gym are coin operated. You stick in your $2 (I use one of those trolley tokens from Aldi) you can then lock it and the key comes out. When you go back and unlock it, you get your $2 back. The key is pretty big and chunky, and comes on a little number tag. I am pretty bad with losing stuff. But hadn’t had an issue with it, keep it with my water and hadn’t lost it or left it behind…yet.

So I had 30mins to kill before the class started so went upstairs to the cardio equipment outside the class studio. Used the treadmill for 20mins then moved to the bike, with my key, towel and water! Put my stuff down and off I went. Few minutes in, I couldn’t see the key. Looked on the ledge on the console..nope, in the drink holders..nope. Argh, so I jump off and start looking on the floor and on the treadmill I was just on..NO. WTF..where the hell could it have gone? Another lady was watching me, and she helped me look everywhere too, under the bikes, treadmills..couldn’t find it anywhere. And you know she isn’t believing me when I say I KNOW i had it when I came up here.

So I went down stairs to see if I had left it down there..or still in the locker, if someone had handed it in..no! One of the trainers came up to help me look, again, hiked the incline up on all the treadmills to look under. Noooo, the bloody thing had vanished into thin air. Again, you know she thinks I am full of shit, and couldn’t possibly have had it only up there, and must be stupid as and lost it somewhere else..which is what I was starting to think!

The only way to get into the locker to get my stuff is to unbarrel the whole lock, and pay $30! o.O GREAT! They said they would call the maintenance guy and he would come help have another quick look under the machines and then open the lock.

Getting pretty worked up by this stage, not to mention embarrassed!..how the fark could I have lost it..I KNOW I had it up there! But every man and his dog had helped me look?

Wait 5mins for the maintenance bloke and then had to go through the whole thing again..I was here, then here..and then the fairies stole my farkin key! He tips the bike I was on to the side so we can take a good look under it…. *tink* out falls my key O.M.F.G! There was a small gap between the ledge where your suppose to stick your shit, phone, keys..you know. Obviously not gym keys, they slip through the gap to Narnia or some shit till you shake the little bastard out.

Sooo embarrassed I just wanted to get out of there, get my bag shove my stuff in and off I go. Walking down the stairs, and there is water running down my leg. Check..nope, haven’t wet my pants. I had thrown my water bottle in my bag and not closed it properly..my bag was now a swimming pool *crying* Thank god I had my phone in my hand. My poor, poor iriver how ever, he can’t swim. We have tried to revive him, but he has since passed away, he had swallowed too much water