80th Birthday Party

I made these cupcakes for a friend for her Grandmother's 80th Birthday. Looks to me like they matched her theme perfectly.

Thanks Breann for the great Pictures!

Cookie Monster

These cupcakes are for Tommy's little birthday celebration today at Emma's school. He has recently found a love for Sesame Street (he calles it Tee Teet) so I thought he might like cookie monster cupcakes.

Christmas Cookies

Emma and I made Christmas Cookies last night until 10 o'clock. She had so much fun. I brought some that I decorated to work with me. Emma will be bringing her masterpieces to school.

Chocolate Mint Wish

This one needs some work. I made a peppermint nougat and put a small piece on the inside before I baked them. The nougat pieces were frozen so I was hoping that this would help keep them from melting too much. No such luck. They taste incredible. The frosting is a white chocolate cream cheese peppermint butter cream. It sounds like a lot but it's smooth and creamy and rich and delicious. I think I might try the new butter cream technique on this one as well. They really look beautiful.

Turned Up Pineapple

This is not my recipe, I cannot take credit. I wouldn't change a thing. It's delicious!

Malted Milkshake...I mean cake...

I love this one. I got the idea from a recipe book I have at home but it called for chocolate chips and other stuff in the batter that I didn't like. It also called for alot more sugar than I wanted and no malt in the batter. So anyway, I vamped it up and put malt in the batter, less sugar and no chocolate chips. The cake baked up beautifully and tastes very malty. I also made a malted buttercream. This was just a basic buttercream frosting and I added malt to the mixture. This also came out tasting great but I'm not crazy out the grittiness of the powdered sugar. I think I'll try another buttercream method and see how that works. The flavor is great though. And it looks cute too. It was suggested to me that maybe some chocolate on the inside might be yummy. We'll see...

S'more Revisions

I revised the S'more cupcake and boy did it turn out beautiful. I made a milk chocolate ganache and let it harden in the fridge. Then I scooped out teaspoon sized balls, put them on a baking sheet and stored them in the freezer to set. I made a graham cracker crust with butter and sugar and baked it for 8 minutes before I put in the remaining ingredients. Once the crusts were cooled, I put 1 ganache ball and piped the batter on top. When the cupcakes were cooled, I made the marshmallow meringue. Each one got a dollop and then under the broiler for some brownage. My recipe is complete. This is definitely my favorite cupcake!