Thursday, April 14, 2011
Cake Walk Cupcakes
Quickly here are the cupcakes I made for one of my co-worker's daughter's school's Cake Walk Fundraiser. (that's a lot of apostrophes huh?) The theme was "under the Big Top". Big Top meaning circus in case you didn't know. I really love that it has a theme but I struggled to stick to one idea. So...I just made super bright fun cupcakes. I think it fits the theme. I still have to name them though....
I immediately started thinking stripes and elephants. Dumbo also came to mind. Then I thought of the foods you eat at the circus and almost decided on making
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The Sno Cone ones are my favorite and I may have to make those at a later date but for now I made it simple. Also, again how fun is a circus!!!
If you grew up in the 80's or remember then you might remember this show
One of my FAVORITES as a kid.
Here they are...
Frosting Fun!
Settled in their box ready to go
Pink Sugar Sprinkles
Unwrapped
Ready for Taste Test
Hubby Rating
Cake: 10
Frosting: 8.5
Filling: N/A
Overall: 8.5
Appearance: 9
For these I used Funfetti Mix and similar recipe to the previous chocolate cakes. Regular buttercream frosting and teal and electric pink gel coloring!
Happy Baking
Kristi
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cakes
Wow I have a lot of catching up to do... Anyways, here are the cupcakes inspired by my dad. For his birthday I asked him what kind of cupcake would he want. He told me he likes peanut butter cups (although the eggs are better) and Heath Bars... So I decided to make Peanut Butter Cupcakes with a surprise inside...
Peanut Butter (is this one word or two?) Buttercream Magnificence with Chocolate Glaze!
My Cupcake Taster now requests drink pairings... Milk with this one
Can you see the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inside????
The recipe for the cupcakes is the same one I used for the Toothpaste Cupcakes. The book calls it a "muffin" but I like to call it a Cupcake.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Adapted From The Chocolate Cake Mix Doctor
Ingredients:
1 Devil's Food Cake Mix (Super Moist or With Pudding)
1/2 C. Vegetable Oil
1/2 C. Water
1 C. Sour Cream (not the low fat kind, come on now)
1 Small Package Chocolate Instant Pudding (yes, with sugar in it)
4 Large Eggs
2 Sleeves of Crushed Oreos (Found a way to involve the husband, make him figure out how to crush Oreos w/o making a mess. Pretty entertaining for me and I like to see what kitchen utensil or household item he will try to use)
Anyways, this is super easy! Put all of the ingredients (minus the Oreos,husband should work on crushing them while you mix) in the bowl and mix for 1 minute, scrape the bowl and then mix for 2 minutes. Stir in the crushed cookies, eat the extra.
Divide batter among 24-30 cupcake papers. This time the recipe made 30. I put in one scoop of batter and then the peanut butter cup and then another scoop of batter to cover it up.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 17 minutes, depending on your oven.
Remove when done and place on neat wire rack thing to cool.
Honestly for the frosting I put some butter in the mixer, mixed it, added a bunch of peanut butter (I liked the organic roasted PB) and added some vanilla and powdered sugar. You may need to add heavy cream or milk to smooth out the frosting to make it spread- or pipe- able. Pipe on cooled cupcakes however you see fit.
Then I made a chocolate glaze and drizzled it over the cupcakes.
These are almost as good as these...
You should definitely try them :)
Hubby Rating
Cake: 9
Frosting: 9
Filling: 6
Overall: 9
Happy Baking
Kristi
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