Saturday, October 30, 2010

Cupcakes and more Cupcakes!

I have been going nuts with the cupcakes lately. I am determined to perfect the art of the cupcake. I have never been a big fan of box cake mixes so I have been trying to find different recipes that taste better than your average cupcake. I made these Candy Corn Cupcakes from Our Best Bites for Halloween.


I thought they tasted okay. Stephen and Kensley really liked them and I thought they turned out pretty cute. These Paula Deen Red Velvet cupcakes I made last week tasted way better. I substituted the 1/2 cup of vegetable oil for a stick of softened butter. The recipe also calls for one teaspoon of cocoa powder and that didn't seem quite sufficient so I added 3 heaping teaspoons of cocoa. They turned out amazing! Oh, I also cut the cream cheese frosting recipe in half after reading all the comments that it made way too much frosting and they were right. Half was plenty!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Colorburst Cupcakes!

I got this cupcake recipe from Our Best Bites. They were very time consuming but the end product was so fun.




I used this frosting recipe . It just occurred to me that I made the cupcakes backwards. I didn't even notice until just now! They would have been much cuter with the red on top, but oh well. They were still fun :o)