Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to reflect on the blessings of life. I am very thankful for my family. I cherish sitting at my parents’ house and talking to my siblings and their families. Every year the family changes, there are new faces and the kids are growing so fast. Next year there will be two new babies. In my family they always seem to come in twos.

This year I was tasked with making a dessert for Thanksgiving. I knew I had a few boxes of cake mix in the pantry so I chose to make cupcakes. As I was walking around Target I looked up Thanksgiving cupcakes and found a picture of Pilgrim hat cupcakes. Thank you, modern technology. I was able to grab cookies, peanut butter cups and vanilla icing. I made a batch of confetti cupcakes and a batch of devil’s food. My daughter has been begging for strawberry iced cupcakes so I had the icing in the pantry. The Pilgrim hats turned out o.k., my pastry bag skills are not the best.

I used what I had at home and made a mix of different combinations. My favorite was devil’s food with chocolate icing and toffee on top.