My baking attempt

This afternoon we sat around and played Rail Baron for four hours.  It's kind of the longest game ever.  Sometimes it can take around five hours.  It's a fun game, but a serious time commitment so we didn't do much of anything else.

 The guy on the front of the box holding a cigar is just funny to me.

 I decided to take advantage of the quiet day at home and bake once the game was over.  I pretty much just don't bake.  My friend Becca posted this easy recipe for pumpkin spice muffins a while back.  I thought I could handle it because it's just a box of spice cake and canned pumpkin mixed together.  Overall the experience was easier than I usually come across in a baking situation, but even with this recipe I still had issues:
 1. The can of pumpkin I had was 29oz when I only needed the 15oz can.  I measured it out, but I couldn't figure out what to do with the remaining pumpkin.  I hate wasting food like that, but I have no idea what I would do with it so I threw it away.

 My leftovers.

2. This recipe makes 24 muffins.  I only have a small muffin pan for six.  There was a lot of unnecessary use of the oven because I had to keep refilling the stupid thing and baking the next batch.  I decided to cut it down by just making them bigger.  I was sure I would end up blowing it completely by doing this, but it actually worked out.

 Extra full muffins in the oven.

3. When I was spraying the muffin pan the oil dripped on my shoe.  Also, to be clear they were not actually my shoes.  I was wearing Jeremy's Pumas.  I tried to clean it off, but you can still see a big spot from it.
4. My husband doesn't like pumpkin flavored things.  I knew this when I started, but I really wanted to eat them so I made them anyway.  He did eat half of one and said it was pretty good so I have hope that I won't have to eat all of them by myself.

My finished muffins with lots of cream cheese frosting.  I guess that kind of makes them cupcakes.

They are really good, but I am such a pathetic baker.
-Kira