Cupcakes, Ice Cream, and Graduation

I recently made those ice cream cupcakes I've seen on Pinterest and I'm sorry to say, I'm not a huge fan. To make these cupcakes all you have to do is put less batter into your cupcakes liners as usual, spread ice cream on them once they've cooled, and then stick it all in the freezer. After that you can add whipped cream or frosting to the top but personally I think some hot fudge was exactly what they needed.
What I liked about this recipe was the fact that you can mix and match any kind of cake mix with ice cream flavor. I have a seriously love affair with mix and matching different flavors to get a magical blend of taste. There was nothing I loved more when I was younger than the giant tubs of Jelly Bellys that let me make such things as strawberry lemonade and pina colada by biting into multiple beans.
Anyway, even with that I still have a lot of things I don't love about this dessert.
1. In all the recipes I looked at, they all just wrote in the instructions to spread the ice cream over it. Maybe I'm missing some common sense thing here (which is very likely seeing as I hear daily complaints from my mom on my lack thereof) but ice cream does not spread all that easily. I set my ice cream out to let it thaw at least but it seemed that it was always either too frozen to spread easily or too melted already. If someone had a quick and easy solution to this problem it would greatly improve these cupcakes standing with me.
2. Cupcakes are supposed to be a hand held food. But when the food gets melty, sticky ice cream all over your hands when you try to hold it, I don't appreciate it. Even if you eat the cupcake right out of the freezer it is still already melting all over you and by the time you throw away the wrapper, you're definitely already covered.
3. The cupcake is pretty darn frozen in the middle after being the freezer and that's kind of an odd thing to bite into. Maybe this could be solved by not making them too early so they don't have to sit in the freezer but I'm so disappointed in my unhappiness of this recipe that I cannot look at the solutions.
4. I had a whole bunch of cake batter left over after making 24 cupcakes! I couldn't waste it so I made a cake with the leftovers. Which I then forgot about baking in the oven because I had to go watch SYTYCD with Kristy. Luckily Trevor got it out of the oven before it burned. Unlucky that meant I not only had 24 ice cream cupcakes but also a whole cake to eat without even having my whole family in town to eat it. Yeah I think I need more friends who feel like just coming over to eat treats all the time... Or at the very least a teenage brother who can actually eat like a boy!
Well now I'm done complaining. It is a fun kind of treat on days when you can't decide between ice cream or cake so go ahead and try it out. It's highly probable that the only reason I really don't like this dessert is that it takes too much work. I think I'm going back to cake mix cookies mixed with random candies...

On another note, I graduated high school this Saturday!

NBD.

It was a pretty fantastic day! Bunches of parties and treats to go around. My funny story of the night is after we made a trip to Sharies at 3:00 in the morning. I made one of my friends order the southern style something or other plate which served fried chicken and waffles. Together. With syrup on the chicken and gravy on the waffles. I don't think I've ever heard of anything more perfect! I got a delicious cake shake that I loved very much. However, whether it was the fact that I had very fattening shake at 3:00 in the morning or the combined smell of fried chicken and waffles, we'll never quite be sure what caused it, I suddenly felt really sick. If I even moved slightly I was sure I was going to barf all over the whole table. As I'm driving home ridiculously slow to avoid throwing up before I got there, I was considering the fact that there were a million policemen out trying to find the kids that were drinking. Not only on my drive home did I have to concentrate on not throwing up all over my beautiful car but also how in the world I was going to explain to a policeman that no I had not been drinking but yes I had just thrown up all over him... Luckily I made it home with any policemen pulling me over so we'll have to call it a happy ending.