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]]>Please keep in mind that weather remotely resembling something Fall-ish is usually what folks up north have for summer. Honestly, I don’t really care, I’m just crossing my fingers for temperatures below the mid 90’s, because, boob sweat.
Anyways, so, I brought y’all the recipe for the incredible frosting that tops these cupcakes last week, and now it’s time to bring y’all the actual cupcakes. In case you just happened to wonder, coffee and maple are absolutely delicious together, the flavors really complement one another.
With the light maple flavor of these cupcakes mixed with the rich buttery coffee flavor of the frosting, these cupcakes taste just like breakfast.
Like all cupcakes, these are a little more work, but let me tell you, 100% worth the effort, do yourself a favor and make these wonderful treats. I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by.
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]]>Oh how I love Valentine’s Day, even when I was single for a million years for a while I still loved it. It doesn’t hurt that it’s a holiday that is focused on all things chocolate, pink and red, and hello, chocolate covered strawberries are seriously one of the best things (food wise) I’ve ever received for this awesome holiday.
I’m a sucker for a fun and (obviously) delicious cupcake and wanted to recreate chocolate covered strawberries with my favorite strawberry cake recipe with a whipped chocolate frosting. This cake recipe is amazing, easy to make, tastes incredible, and even tastes better after a couple days because the strawberries in the mix moisten the cake even more. I also just so happened to have a small heart shaped biscuit cutter which I cut out the middle of the cupcake and filled with the whipped chocolate frosting. Oh my gosh y’all these are so incredible and just so darn cute I can’t even handle it These would be wonderful to make for the sweetheart(s) in your life, or heck, just treat yourself.
Start with your white cake mix and 3 tablespoons of flour…
Then add your strawberry jello mix…
Then add your water and vegetable oil…
Mix, mix, mix..look how yummy and pretty…
So now for the frosting..start with milk and flour…
Heat and mix until it’s the texture of thin mashed potatoes and remove from the heat…
While the flour/milk mixture is cooling, take your butter…
Whip your butter until creamy…
Whip, whip, whip until smooth and creamy…
Then add your cooled milk/flour mixture…
And whip the heck out of it until it’s the texture of whipped cream…
Then add your cocoa powder and mix, mix, mix…
Take your cupcake and with a small biscuit or cookie cutter cut out the cute little heart shape and sprinkle with powdered sugar…
You can use a piping bag or spoon to fill the heart with chocolate frosting…
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]]>Happy Wednesday everybody! I seriously have been so excited to share this recipe with y’all, for reals. It’s probably gonna sound silly, but when I have a totally awesome idea (or what I think is totally awesome) for a recipe zap into my head & it sooo comes together perfectly and tastes ridiculously good to boot, I can’t wait to share.
I knew I wanted to make Earl Grey cupcakes due to my love of the Mini Tea & Cookie Cups that I made a while back, but I hadn’t decided yet what kind of frosting would go best…well, I just happened to be watching an interview with Tom Hiddleston for research, obviously and he mentioned drinking tea with a biscuit (silly Brits, they’re cookies) and that’s when it hit me…biscuit cookie frosting!
Oh yes, cookie frosting, and it had to be Biscoff cookies because apparently they’re ‘Europe’s favorite cookie with coffee’ (tea in my opinion haha) and also, if you’ve ever had Biscoff cookie spread, you’ll totally understand, drooool it’s beyond delicious, like, beyond y’all.
Seriously, just go out and buy some today-I had to order mine on Amazon, it seems to be hard to find in stores for some reason-so my obvious enthusiasm for this stuff made it a no brainer to make a frosting out of it. These cupcakes are moist but light and fluffy with just the right amount of the tea flavor, and the little bit of heaven that is the frosting on top, yeah, just go out and make these as soon as possible Have a wonderful day and as always thank you so much for stopping by.
Start by steeping your tea bags into your whole milk for a hot second (at least 30 minutes)…
now, cake mix & eggs into your mixing bowl…
mix, mix, mix, now butter…
mix, mix, mix & now time for the tea steeped milk…
nice and mixed, then into your cupcake liners…
bake, bake, bake…
now, time for frosting…flour & milk into your pan…
heat and mix, mix, mix…
after the flour/milk mixture cools, place butter into your bowl…
now sugar…
whip, whip & I then put in the milk/flour mix & forgot to photo, then whip it like crazy …
now for the good stuff, the Biscoff spread…
mix until evenly distributed & may I just say, mmmmm…
then enjoy!!
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]]>I love that you can easily tweak your frosting recipes with a little this and a little that until you get it juuust right. That is exactly what I did with this recipe, hence the hodge podge order of my ‘how to’ pictures, I just kept adding to it what it needed to get it to the exact flavor that I wanted (but simplified in the recipe section, don’t worry).
You guys! you don’t even know how amazing this frosting is! OMG it tastes just like funfetti cake batter, if I didn’t think I would go into insulin shock be sick, I would have eaten every freaking bite of this stuff with a spoon, or you know, a shovel. Publix totally hooked me up with some naughty naked vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, and I piled about a pound of this absolutely incredible frosting on every single one.
Which one tasted better? That would be like picking my favorite child (you know, if I actually had kids) because this frosting made both vanilla and chocolate cupcakes taste amazing either way. You totally need this frosting on every single cake item in your life, or just in a spoon. I promise you will love this. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!!!
but first, butter!
mix up and add your powdered sugar…
some of the cake mix and cream cheese…
mix, mix , mix and add some heavy cream…
then all of the sprinkles…
mix, mix, mix and enjoy!!!
and enjoy!!!
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]]>~~~Happy Mardi Gras everybody!!! Please enjoy one of my absolute favorite cupcake recipes ever!!!~~~
It’s that time of year again folks…parades, beads, debauchery, bad decisions yes it’s Mardi Gras time. I have to be completely honest, the whole Mardi Gras thang wasn’t really on my radar until I moved to Louisiana where I lived for several years.
I didn’t even live anywhere close to New Orleans but right after the New Year, the unmistakable green, gold and purple beads and banners would start to pop up everywhere and my favorite was seeing people who would just redecorate their Christmas trees as Mardi Gras trees. Another constant fixture this time of year in Louisiana is the King Cake.
If you are not familiar with a King Cake, just think of a giant cheesy cinnamon-ey danish thing with a cream cheese or vanilla icing on top in the quintessential purple, green and gold colors…oh and don’t forget the little plastic baby you might find in the cake I remember my first Mardi Gras season in Los Angeles going on a hunt for a King Cake, and not only could I not find one anywhere but no one had any idea what I was even talking about. Sooo, that’s when I decided I would make some cupcakes with the delicious King Cake in mind. These are an incredible french vanilla cake with spiced rum in the batter, topped with a butter rum glaze and a cream cheese cinnamon frosting, these are sooo moist and awesome y’all. If you’re wanting to get in the Mardi Gras mood this year, I think these will be perfect.
So let’s start with the cake mix…
Look how pretty and puffy they are…
Let’s start to make the frosting, there are 2 sticks of butter here but I ended up using 3…
Cream these together, then add your powdered sugar…
Mix these together then add your cinnamon…
Butter rum glaze time… start with your butter…
Boil all of these ingredients together for 5 minutes stirring constantly…
Remove from the heat then add your rum slowly, it will sputter and spit a lot…
Pour your glaze in a separate container, and dip the top of your cupcake into the glaze…
Look how pretty and shiny they are with the glaze…
Then pipe your frosting and enjoy…Happy Mardi Gras!
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]]>~~~SIDE NOTE~~~I’ve been having some technical issues with my blog, so for the time being, it might look a bit wonky, sorry!
Oh how I love Valentine’s Day, even when I was single for a million years for a while I still loved it. It doesn’t hurt that it’s a holiday that is focused on all things chocolate, pink and red, and hello, chocolate covered strawberries are seriously one of the best things (food wise) I’ve ever received for this awesome holiday.
I’m a sucker for a fun and (obviously) delicious cupcake and wanted to recreate chocolate covered strawberries with my favorite strawberry cake recipe with a whipped chocolate frosting. This cake recipe is amazing, easy to make, tastes incredible, and even tastes better after a couple days because the strawberries in the mix moisten the cake even more. I also just so happened to have a small heart shaped biscuit cutter which I cut out the middle of the cupcake and filled with the whipped chocolate frosting. Oh my gosh y’all these are so incredible and just so darn cute I can’t even handle it These would be wonderful to make for the sweetheart(s) in your life, or heck, just treat yourself.
Start with your white cake mix and 3 tablespoons of flour…
Then add your strawberry jello mix…
Then add your water and vegetable oil…
Mix, mix, mix..look how yummy and pretty…
So now for the frosting..start with milk and flour…
Heat and mix until it’s the texture of thin mashed potatoes and remove from the heat…
While the flour/milk mixture is cooling, take your butter…
Whip your butter until creamy…
Whip, whip, whip until smooth and creamy…
Then add your cooled milk/flour mixture…
And whip the heck out of it until it’s the texture of whipped cream…
Then add your cocoa powder and mix, mix, mix…
Take your cupcake and with a small biscuit or cookie cutter cut out the cute little heart shape and sprinkle with powdered sugar…
You can use a piping bag or spoon to fill the heart with chocolate frosting…
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]]>Happy Wednesday everybody!!! I am sooo excited to share today’s recipe with y’all! I received in the mail a box full of wonderful Brach’s treats.
Of course all of the Christmas candies looked amazing, but the one that jumped out at me to use first were the bags of the Brach’s crushed candy canes. Ideas were running rampant of what I wanted to make with them, but a frosting was the first on my list, and hello what better thing to put candy cane frosting with than chocolate?
I wanted to keep the frosting super light and fluffy with the subtle sweetness and crunch of the crushed candy cane, and y’all that is exactly how this frosting turned out, downright perfection.
Also, lets talk about the cupcakes, I doctored up a cake mix to make the cupcakes extra moist and fluffy (and not to mention easy) and these also turned out perfectly soft and chocolatey. I honestly think these would be perfect for any Christmas party (parties) you might need to bring a little something to because these are so festive and delicious. Also, if you’re a huge mocha peppermint fan, this is right up your alley, enjoy y’all!
Alrighty, cake mix into the bowl…
then the rest of your ingredients…
all mixed up….
into your cupcake tin…
now, for the frosting…milk and flour into your saucepan…
perfect, see how it’s the consistency of thin mashed potatoes?…
once the flour/milk mixture has cooled, place butter and sugar into your bowl…
whip, whip, whip the butter and sugar until light and fluffy…
now add your milk/flour mixture…
whip it like crazy until it’s super light and fluffy (should taste and look like whipped cream)…
Brach’s crushed candy canes…
into your bowl…
all mixed up and ready to be noshed…
and enjoy!!!
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]]>I mean, I’m not gonna lie, the A/C was super cranked up which did not keep all of the humidity out, and then the added heat of the oven, I was sweating y’all. On the bright side, butter and cream cheese come to room temperature in a third the time at these oh so summer temps, so I didn’t have to wait on that for my frosting.
Speaking of, this frosting, y’all… wowza, just imagine a perfectly fall spiced pumpkin mousse that is deliciously light and decadent, and that is this frosting. The cupcakes fluffed up perfectly, and honestly I can’t remember the last time that I made cupcakes that puffed up and stayed up so nicely after taking them out of the oven.
They’re insert synonym for moist because ew moist, light and perfectly spiced, and then add the incredible pumpkin frosting, holy cow, it’s like Fall in every bite. Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by!
all the ingredients for your cupcakes into your bowl…(you spy a hopeful doggie? FYI she loves butter too)
mix, mix, mix…
into your cupcake tins…
bake, bake, bake…
now for the frosting, cream cheese into your bowl…
mix, mix, mix, then add your butter…
mix, mix, mix…
pumpkin and spices…
mix, mix, mix…
then add your powdered sugar…
mix, mix, mix…
and enjoy!!!
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]]>Summer is fast approaching, which means strawberries -one of my absolute favorite fruits- is coming into season, and also where you can usually find me lurking around the fruit aisle at the store sniffing strawberry boxes (creepshow, I know). Okay, that’s an exaggeration but I do love me some strawberries, which makes it hard to believe I have never made a strawberry frosting before (food blogger fail).
Obviously, I realized this needed to be remedied, and as I went on the hunt for a strawberry frosting, most I found seemed way, way too sweet buttercream versions, or they used frozen strawberries which, eww, not a fan at all. Soo, when you can’t find what you’re looking for, you just make it up. I decided the base for this frosting should be one I’ve made a gazillion times now, that’s kind of weird with the whole milk/flour mixture, but insanely, decadently good, and with fresh strawberries thrown in? Oh, Em, G y’all, this frosting is amazing.
There is no way that this frosting could be anything but the focal point, so I slapped (more like piped gently, but whatev) it on some vanilla cupcakes, and basically, these tasted like the best strawberry shortcake you’ve ever had in your life! Again, I am urging you to go out and make these ASAP because drroooll. I may or may not have eaten all of them a few of these, soooo yummy y’all. Thank you so much for stopping by & have a wonderful day!
Cupcake time, cake mix & vanilla pudding (the butter should have been whipped first, but I forgot)…
eggs, vanilla…
mix, mix, mix (then realized I forgot the dang butter)…
mix again…
now into your cupcake tins…
bake, bake, bake…
time to start some frosting, flour & milk into your saucepan…
on medium heat ,stir constantly & the texture should be like thin mashed potatoes…
after the milk/flour mixture cools, remove the stems of your strawberries & place into a food processor…
processed…
butter into your bowl…
whip, whip, whip & sugar…
whip, whip, whip again & nice and fluffy…
now add your milk/flour mixture…
now whip the ever loving heck out of it…
add your strawberries…
whip again…
and enjoy!!!
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]]>As a kid I was literally obsessed with peanut butter & banana sandwiches (anyone else?), no joke, there was probably one summer that I ate 2-3 a day (obviously, my food obsession started early), and I kind of always felt like people would look at me funny when I ate one. I mean, I get it, bananas in a sandwich (insert dirty joke here) is probably going to seem weird, but that sweet & salty goodness that is the bananas mixed with the peanut butter, yum, yum, yummy.
So, on a day last week I randomly was craving all things peanut butter, and it got me thinking about a potential cupcake that encompassed one of my fav combos. Not gonna lie, I was kind of nervous that these might come out blargh, but holy moly y’all I am loving these sooo much.
The banana cupcakes are perfectly moist & filled with so much flavor & the whipped peanut butter frosting, ummmm, I had to make myself stop eating it out of the bowl so I would have enough for the cupcakes it is insane! I can’t tell you how many people who ate these that made the comment that they would have never thought to put these 2 together but it so works. Anyways, I hope some cupcakes can make your day a little brighter, and thank you so much for stopping by.
For the cupcakes, thawed bananas to start…
mix them up for just a bit…
now add eggs…
the sugar…
the oil…
mix, mix, mix…
now the flour, baking soda & baking powder…
mix, mix, mix, then add the rum…
mix in the rum, now time to go in your cupcake liners…
bake, bake, bake…
now time for frosting, start with butter…
After mixing, I realized I needed some more butter, so here’s the 3rd stick of butter…
mix again, and add your powdered sugar…
mix again…
time for heavy whipping cream…
mix, it looks a little funny & that’s okay…
now time for the peanut butter…
annnnddd, I’ll have y’all know my fluffy sous chef was about to have a fit for some peanut butter (her fav), so was standing right under my feet, I told her to move so I wouldn’t accidentally step on her paw, so she moved over and stuck her nose under the cabinet, as if I couldn’t see her…silly fluff monster…
anyways, mix your peanut butter frosting and pipe or spoon onto your cupcakes & enjoy!
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