Cookies and Cream Cupcake

Recipe here:

http://www.amanda.fakeginger.com/?p=1257

Happy baking

Cupcakes in ice cream cones

Cabin has been wanting me to do this for a very long time. Bake cupcakes in ice cream cones. Well today was the day. I just filled the cones with cupcake batter and voila! ice cream cone cupcakes. the pink one in the middle is a cupcake and a mini cupcake and frosted to look like ice cream. And with all the hot weather Kansas is having it is nice to have a cone that does not melt.

Happy baking and here is the link of the cupcakes I made.

http://www.grammascookin.com/

Lemon cupcake with lemon icing

This Cupcake just screams "Summer" to me. The cake part was more dense than a normal cupcake. The flavor of lemon was light but pleasing to the palette. The frosting was over the
top yummy. A great addition to any brunch or bbq.

Here is the recipe I used.
/www.mybakingaddiction.com/lemon-cupcakes/

Happy Baking.

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Strawberry Cream cheese Ice Cream

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Strawberrries and cream cheese go together so well. So with some left over strawberry cream cheese frosting. I made Strawberry cream cheese Ice cream. And it can not get any easier then strawberries, half and half,and sugar. Go make yourself some right now:)







Red Velvet Cupcakes

This is my first time making Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. I truly enjoyed the whole experience. All the way down to the red food coloring:). Well they were a hit. Maddi ate four cupcakes the first day. And had two for breakfast the next. The recipe I used was..

http://pinchmysalt.com/2008/11/10/red-velvet-cake-recipe/.

Fun with cupcakes

Today I made cupcakes from a box.. the internet said if I switched out butter for oil it would taste from "scratch". I was not totally convinced they tasted homemade. BUT they sure turned out pretty.. love the large sprinkles. Happy baking.

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Fresh blueberry muffins

Fresh blueberry Muffins. Hy-Vee had fresh blueberries for 88 cents on sale this week. Who could resist.. right ?. So while scouring the internet for great blueberry muffin recipes I came across this one. The website said this muffin recipe is from 1896, sooo there has to be some thing there. While baking they smelled like lemony goodness. So if you are interested in the recipe here it is...
http://www.abusynest.com/2010/06/fannie-farmers-blueberry-muffins.html

and as always happy Baking.

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S'more Cupcakes

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Today I made S'more Cupcakes.. and the Cupcake part was made with graham crackers as the base and no flour.. Scott loved the cupcake with out the chocolate and marshmallow, Maddi and Cabin loved it with all the fixin'. The frosting was made with two large Hersey candy Bars and powdered sugar. here is the link for the Graham cracker cake.. It made 20 cupcakes and I baked them for about 16 minutes.
http://bakingbites.com/2009/07/smores-cake/. Enjoy:)

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Strawberry Cupcakes

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Today in Kansas city there was a Heat Advisory, the temperature was well over 100 degrees, and what do I decide to do is bake Strawberry cupcakes. God love my husband for letting me turn on the oven to 350 degrees at 2pm on a hot Saturday afternoon. The recipe is from Candace Nelson of Sprinkles Cupcakes fame. I think they turned out good. They sure are cute. Thanks Honey for letting me bake today.. love you.

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Measuring Cups

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Just got these adorable measuring cups from Pier one Imports.. so cute. Love them

Interesting facts about cupcakes

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The name "cupcake" was used differently back in the 1800s. Then the name "cup cake" simply referred to a cake where the ingredients were 'measured' not 'weighed'. It seems that before the 1880s ingredients for cake baking were actually weighed so when recipes started to be given in 'cup' measurements, the cake recipes were named 'cup cakes' to reflect this difference. Greg Patent also tells us in his book 'Baking in America' that a woman named Mrs. Rorer (in 1902) was the first to actually print a recipe for the cupcakes (with frosting) we all enjoy today.
Read more: http://www.joyofbaking.com/VanillaCupcakes.html#ixzz0tsrfplQq

Springs!

These springs are so cute. It does take some practice to get some good ones. If you would like to try here is the link...
http://www.thelonebaker.com/journal/2009/12/15/sprung.html.