Springtime cupcakes

First, let me remind you, I am not good at decorating my cupcakes. And I know it. I do not have an artistic bone in my body and am not very creative. That's why I rely on my friend Brenda for all that! But I saw the cutest picture of a cupcake with a nest and little eggs on it. It looked easy enough! So I gave it a try.....FAIL. But they taste great!!!!! I baked up some burnt sugar candy bar cupcakes with peanut butter icing. Mmmmmm.... I put some chunks of Snickers bar in half of them and they taste just like a candy bar! Defiitely made up for how silly they look...

Dora birthday cupcakes

This past weekend I got to help my friend, Bethany, bake the cupcakes for her daughters Dora themed 3rd birthday party. I had so much fun spending the evening with my friend, and we created the cutest and tastiest cupcakes for her little girl!
We made PINK VELVET WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:

LEMON WITH LEMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:

And CHOCOLATE OREO WITH COOKIES & CREAM FROSTING:

We used a giant cupcake pan to make Madison's cake. TOP HALF WAS PINK VELVET AND BOTTOM WAS CHOCOLATE OREO. Turned out awesome!!:

Thanks SO much to Bethany for letting me play in your kitchen and letting me be a part of Madison's beautiful birthday party! (And for taking so many great pictures of them for me to use here on my blog!!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MADISON!!!!

Elvis cupcakes

Our fabulous neighbors across the culdesac gave their basketball hoop to our boys the other day. What better way to thank them than with cupcakes?! I had some Hershey's kisses in the fridge so I used them up in this fun Elvis cupcake. Elvis's favorite sandwich was peanut butter and banana with chocolate. So I made a banana cupcake with a Hershey kiss core and peanut butter frosting.

My neighbor said it was the best cupcake he had ever had! Awww that made my day!!

Ladybug Cupcakes!

I got to make the cupcakes for my friend's daughter's 2nd birthday party! My crafty friend, Brenda, was in charge of the decorating.. And they turned out adorable!

We made cookies & cream with oreo sunflowers on top and the others are vanilla bean with a raspberry swirl. Yummy! We had to get creative to make the dome-shaped ladybug cake.. Used one of my small stainless steel mixing bowls to bake it in and it worked out perfectly! Hope you loved them, Melayia!

Next week.... Dora themed birthday party! Keep giving me work, guys.. I have lots of recipes I want to practice with!!

Toffee cupcakes

I am always finding recipes that I want to try but I can't have that many cupcakes just sitting around my house.... Not good for my waistline and not good for my boys's energy level! Please give me work, let me practice! I just baked the cupcakes for my sister's baby shower, I am baking cupcakes for a birthday party in a couple weeks, and baking a cupcake tower for my soon to be sister in law's wedding this summer! I am constantly looking for an excuse to bake so friends for dinner provides a perfect opportunity. Last night I baked a toffee cupcake with a salted caramel buttercream. Oh so good! I loved the cupcake but the frosting was too buttery for my taste. Next time, I will make a little more caramel and use a little less butter.

mini cupcakes

Wow, what a slacker.. I have been baking but not blogging! Time to catch up...

A couple weeks back my coworker had a birthday so I baked her some mini cupcakes.

These were my first attempt at adding another flavor in the core of the cupcake.

I made a simple white cupcake, used a straw to make a hole in the middle and filled the core with Starbucks caramel sauce..yummmmm. 

Topped them with white chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Redemption Cupcakes

So about a week ago we had some friends over for our monthly get together and I, of course, prepared cupcakes. They were......bad. Really bad. I am still pretty fresh to baking to I guess that is to be expected. But I still felt it necessary to make it up to them with a new batch of cupcakes. I baked up some cookies and cream cupcakes with white chocolate cream cheese frosting.... Totally redeemed myself!!