kyerabianca:
File under: Future party decor inspiration.
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this is such a cute idea!
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only reblogging because i find this hilarious, not because i like justin bieber. lol
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yummy-ness:
Make about 20-25 Cupcakes.
Just add However much you WANT of chocolate chips into the batter.
Ingredients
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
This is why I started baking cupcakes…the prettiness, the creativeness. These were so fun to bake and decorate even though I had so many stomach problems that weekend. I put on a mask so I didn’t infect them and pushed through the sickness.
I designed Hello Kitty themed cupcakes for my niece’s 5th birthday party. I already knew the color scheme so I tried to match up icing colors, liners, sprinkles, everything.
The bows were made with a melting candy. You can get it in practically any color imaginable at Michaels. I melted it down, put it in a piping bag, snipped the tip off and drew bows on wax paper with the candy coating. You could put a print off of the bow under the wax paper. I tried, but it was too small. I wanted big bows. This little girl is a diva.
Friday night I baked the cupcakes. Vanilla and chocolate. The vanilla recipe was from the special cupcake magazine I bought and called for real vanilla bean. Really? Where in West Virginia do you get a real vanilla bean? Luckily Capitol Market had them and cheaper than a bottle of vanilla extract. The chocolate recipe was one that is all mine and included dark chocolate and milk chocolate chips in the cupcakes. But when I went to line the pan with the cute matching cupcake liners, they kept crumpling when I poured the batter in. So, I scooped the batter out of them, waded up every single paper and threw them in the trash. I got in my car and went to the store out the road figuring that they would at least have white cupcake liners. Nope. Winnie the Pooh would not work. So I went to the dollar store across the street. Nothing. Fed up I drove back into town for the 2nd time that day. Keep in mind, it’s about half an hour to the closest Wal-Mart where I live. Got to Wal-Mart and it was a madhouse because it was the first Friday of the month. Got hit by numerous shopping carts with women sporting some badly dyed mullets behind the wheel. I finally got out of there with more than what I needed just incase I had another disaster. Thank god the cupcakes turned out to be some of the most perfect looking cupcakes I’ve ever baked. No huge muffin tops, not too hard or soft. However the disaster really wasn’t over yet. I became increasingly ill overnight, then got up to start baking again at 8 am with no sleep. I went to the store twice that morning for missing ingredients. Once for shortening and a breakfast biscuit run for my family. The second time was immediately after getting home to realize I didn’t have enough powdered sugar or any food coloring.
But the cupcakes got done and turned out to be the most stunning pieces of work I’ve done so far. Everybody was more than impressed. They truly were a work of art and all the pain and frustration were well worth being a hot mess in the end.
Butterbeer cupcakes. I’ve never tasted the legendary drink from the Harry Potter books, but I sure hope it tasted as good as my cupcakes did!
The batter was so good I licked the bowl clean. I think it was the butter flavoring and my inner Paula Dean.
There was a ganache butterscotch filling that went inside. The only problem I had with this was that it didn’t thicken up very well and just absorbed into the cupcakes. Actually I did have another problem. Butterscotch chips don’t melt very well so it was kind of lumpy.
I filled it with a bottle. Kind of like a refillable ketchup bottle. I got them at the craft store. Looked easier than wasting a piping bag.
After piping on a butterscotch buttercream frosting I drizzled some of the leftover ganache over the tops. It took awhile to perfect because I have a big issue with frosting that is too sweet and not enough flavor. So I kept adding more vanilla and butter flavoring until it was perfect.
I got the recipe from a cupcake blog that I don’t remember the name of. But for me recipes are just sort of guidelines. I never stick to it and they still always turn out yummy! I refuse to bake any sort of cupcake that I wouldn’t eat because I have to taste every batter, every frosting, etc to make sure it is just right. So that means red velvet is out of the question cupcake lovers!
…is definitely Bakerella. It’s more than cupcakes, but all the cupcake ideas I’ve seen there so far makes me very excited for summer and baking lots of cuppycakes! The link in the previous post leads to one of these cupcakes. They look…like…chocolate dipped cones! One of my favorite summer treats. *gets in the car and heads to Dairy Queen*
Also this summer I want to try smores cupcakes, strawberry lemonade, and spiked raspberry lemonade. All very summery. All very pretty.
binaeule:
dino-cupcakes…yeah
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