Much like the "Julie & Julia" version where Julie Powell attempted one Julia Child recipe per day for an entire year and wrote about it, we have our own mission. My 8-year old daughter is in love with DC Cupcakes. She started with watching the TV show on Netflix, and hasn't turned back since. Shall I say she is obsessed? I have to say, as a mother, I nurture this interest. With all the Barbie doll figurines and Britney Spears out there in the world, gearing this generation of little girls toward a goal of popularity and sexuality, this adoration for Katherine and Sophie is lovely. Not familiar with these two? Educate yourself: http://www.georgetowncupcake.com/about.html

In 2008 Katherine and Sophie left careers in fashion and venture capital to pursue their love in baking. This is admirable. This encouragement and attention to such a healthy and life fulfilling venture is music to my ears. This Christmas, my little girl received "The Cupcake Diaries" written by Katherine and Sophie and a DC Cupcake Baking Set. See the beautiful smile below.

She quickly adorned the apron and decided that roller skating waitresses have a very cool career!

After the excitement wore off, she got serious. She noted there were 80 cupcakes in the book. She took out a composition notebook (of course the DC Cupcake Flavor Composition Notebook) and numbered 1-80. She promptly wrote down every flavor. As a mother daughter team, looking at this list, we decided to make all 80 by next Christmas. You may think that task does not seem too complicated. But... remember this, there are only 52 weeks in a year. That is more than one batch of cupcakes a week. Keeping in mind that I work full-time plus, and have 3 kids, this is quite the undertaking. Next, what do we do with these cupcakes? Good question. We plan to blog about that too. Here is our One Year DC Cupcake Mission.