Breakfast Cupcakes

After I took my LOA for a few weeks to recover from baking-itis I decided to make a breakfast cupcake.  The following was born of a baking fail... Pancake Cupcakes.  My Quality Control Officer aka The Hubby tasted the Pancake Cake and said, "No this is no good" and I agreed with him so I made....

Coffee Cake Cupcakes with a "Watch out Cinnabon" Cinnamon/Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting (possibly my favorite icing ever...)
I used my favorite Cake Mix Doctor Coffee Cake recipe and, of course, made it into a cupcake.
The essential ingredients are...

• Yellow Cake Mix
• Eggs
• Oil
• Vanilla Pudding Mix
• Water?
• Sourcream? (sorry I don't have the book with me to verify)
• Vanilla
• Cinnamon
• Brown Sugar
• Walnuts (optional)

When I put the batter into the cupcake tins, I put one scoop and then put in the cinnamon/brown sugar mixture then put the second portion of cupcake batter on top.  Let me tell you, if when you make these your whole house will smell AMAZING! 

I had some left over brown sugar/cinnamon so I decided "Why not add this to my frosting?!"  So I did.

When the cakes cooled, I made cream cheese frosting and added the cinnamon/brown sugar plus some more cinnamon.  Since cinnamon has health benefits, why not?

Here is the finished product...

You can see the cinnamon and brown sugar swirl in the cake!

The brown sugar in the frosting adds a grittiness that I love!

Amazing!

Happy Baking!

Kristi

 

Baking Fail

Well it didn't take to long to have a baking fail post...

I decided I would try to make vanilla cupcakes a la Magnolia Bakery with my own Nutella frosting.  Sounds good right? 

Well....

Baking Attempt #1

The recipe seemed easy enough, butter, eggs, flour, vanilla, sugar...

Tip:  Make sure you read all of the directions and measurements.

In my effort to have less dishes, I used the 1/2 cup measuring cup for my sugar instead of the 1 cup measuring cup.  I knew I'd have to use the cup twice for the 2 cups of sugar called for in the recipe, but I forgot that I was using the 1/2 measure (which means I would have needed to add 4 1/2 measure cups).  Needless to say I only added 1 cup of sugar to the batter....

When I took them out of the oven they had pools of butter on them...When we tasted them we decided they tasted oddly enough like cornbread minus the corn...Strange...

Hubby did find a good use for them by adding pulled BBQ pork to them. 

Baking Attempt #2

Sooooooo I made them again, this time adding the correct amount of sugar.  They looked a little better and weren't floating in butter. 

Still, they did not taste as fabulous as I imagined them to be.  But they passed the hubby taste test so I made some frosting for them. 

Again this did not turn out as fabulous as I imagined.  Basically I added Nutella (amazing) to a buttercream frosting recipe.  Not terrible but not fantastic either.  I imagined a more gooey frosting than what I turned out.  So chalk it up to a baking fail.

- Kristi