Technical Difficulties

Hey guys!

Sorry it has been a while since I've posted. My computer died and we just got a new one. I'm just about to install photoshop this weekend and then I will post all of last months cupcakes. Thanks a lot for helping me by trying my cupcakes. It really helps me! :)




P.S. Get ready for some fun recipes before Winter Break.

Snickers

Snickers are probably my second favorite candy bar out there. (Baby Ruths aaaaall the way!) Naturally, I really wanted to make a cupcake version of it. I have been following this blog for sometime now and finally decided to check there for a snickers recipe. (http://annies-eats.com/) Just my luck, Annie had the recipe for me! :) I'd have to say if you plan on making these for youself, which you will want to do, buy Hersey's caramel in a jar or Trader's Joes caramel sauce. I made the one on the recipe and it tasted more like sweet milk....don't waste your time.

Overall, I got a lot of great feedback from these cupcakes. They are definitely up there on the list. Dark chocolate cake filled with a mixture of caramel and snickers, topped off with caramel buttercream. (I added extra caramel to the frosting...couldn't help myself!) They're quite messy but definitely worth it. :)

Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy; that delicious pur sugar treat that you can get at fairs, sporting events, and even Chuck E. Cheese's. I'm sure everyone has or still does love cotton candy. So how about a cotton candy cupcake? I know it's a little strange, but it seemed to work.

The cupcakes are bright and sweet. I'd say they're pretty similar to funfetti, except not haha. It's really up to you to try them and see if they're good. Tip: The pink frosting is better than the blue in my opinion. :)

Happy Cupcake Eating!!!!!

Looking Ahead

Upcoming cupcakes:

• Cotton Candy
• Snickers
• Cookie Dough
• Cherry Limeade
• Sweet Potato
• Reese's Cup
• Strawberries N' Creme
• Carrot Cake

You may request a saved cupcake starting one week before I bake the cupcake you want.

Caramel Apple

So yesterday when I made the apple pie cupcakes I got lazy and only filled a couple. This morning I went into my fridge and found a jar of caramel sauce, which is not what I needed for the original caramel apple cupcakes. Then I decided just to fill the cupcakes with this caramel sauce and put the apples on top. My result:

I'd say they're much better than the originals, and I'm very pleased with the outcome. Although I am worried the cake with soak up the caramel before I even pass them out later tonight. I guess I will just have to find out then!

Apple Pie

So basically I was planning on making caramel apple cupcakes and that obviously did not happen. I couldnt find a lot of the ingredients I needed so I threw some stuff together. I made a cinnamon and applesauce based cake and then filled it with some canned apple pie mix. Next time I will definitely make my own apple pie mix so that i can have the apples be tart. That way (in my opion)  it will compliment the frosting better. I left the frosting off so that it wouldn't be too sweet. Now theres just a drizzle of icing. At first I thought they tasted great but now they're just alright....definitely not my best, but they're good enough for a quick treat. :)

Pumpkin Spice

Pumpkin lovers... it's going to be hard just eating one! They are pumpkiny (is that a word?) and have the right touch of spice. To finish the cupcakes off, they are frosted with a sweet cinnamon cream cheese frosting. I even added little candy corn pumpkins for fun!

I'm actually really proud of myself for these because it's one of the first times I have really changed the recipe. I altered the recipe a lot and they came out suprisingly good....I was worried they'd be gross. I can almost call it my own recipe. :) Well, I hope you enjoy these cute and delicious cakes! 

Red Velvet

They're here! Red Velvet cupcakes. I get more requests for these than anything else I bake. I had planned on making these later in the year around Christmas but my youth pastor requested them early. I will be making Peppermint Red Velvet at Christmas though.

Red Velvet is basically chocolate cake with food coloring to make it red. I must say, this is by far my favorite type of cake. I prefer to get mine from Bliss in Bethany Village. I really loooove their cupcakes.

I found this recipe online but tweaked it so that it was less dense. It was actually by accident because I needed a last minute substitution, but now I have my secret little ingredient. ;)

Looking Ahead

What to look forward to in the next two weeks:
-Red Velvet (Everyone's favorite, including mine)
-Pumpkin Spice (For the season of course!)
-Caramel Apple ( Halloween!)
-Cotton Candy (Hey, why not?)

Woooh cupcakes! :)

Snickerdoodle Cupcakes

 Snickerdoodles. Yeah...those cookies we all know and love. But how about a snickerdoodle cupcake? Now that's an idea! They're good but CAUTION: they are sweeeeet!

I actually tried a cupcakes for myself, which is quite unusual. In my opinion, the cake was delicious but I had to scrape off a little of the cinnamon frosting. In the end though, if you love snickerdoodles and thick, sweet frosting, you will looove these! :)

P.S. My kitchen smells amazing :)

Cherry Cheesecake

Fresh right out of the oven!

Cupcake + Cheesecake = Heaven! So far these were my favorite to make and everything about them is just amazing. There's a vanilla wafer on the bottom, then yellow cake filled with a cheesecake center!

They're topped of with cherry pie filling. :) I'm in love!

German Chocolate

There's really no need to explain. Everybody knows what german chocolate is. Sweet, chocolately cake topped with a coconut pecan frosting.

Brooklyn Blackout

"A Brooklyn, New York, bakery called Ebinger's was famous for its intense chocolate cake, called Brooklyn Blackout, packaged in a signature blue box. The bakery closes in the early 1970s, but the buzz about these cakes lives on."

These are the first batch of cupcakes I made last Sunday. They are basically a dark chocolate cake with a pudding filling and pudding frosting. On top is crumbled cake.

From The Beginnning

Hey Everyone!

For my project I was getting a lot of requests for doing a blog. (Mostly from Courteney.) At first I didn't really want to, but hey whatever works. I am by no means a great or interesting writer so don't expect a lot from me and this blog. I basically want to be able to show the steps as I go through my capstone research and art component. I will be baking 50 different cupcake recipes in 25 weeks as a way of deciding what types of cupcakes I would have in my bakery if I were to open one. I bake cupcakes, you eat them and rate them....it's really simple. One problem with the rating is that I don't always recieve the rating slips back. It would be greatly appreciated if you returned them back to me so I could get an accurate review of each recipe. If you forget, just post your rating to my blog! (Likes, dislikes, _/5) Thank you so much for trying and rating my cupcakes. It's really important to me and it will be very beneficial in the end.