German Chocolate Cupcakes – Recipe

As summer starts to wind down, so does the hot days in the kitchen and my baking starts to pick up.  I typically bake more in the winter just because of school functions and holidays, it just works out that way.  Speaking of working out, I also tend to lose weight in the summer and gain a few sizes during the off season.

I have whittled my way down to a solid size 8, down from a winter time size 12.  I have gone this year down to a size 6 and I’m always about a cupcake away from 8 and two cupcakes away from a 12.  Let me tell you, cooking German Chocolate cupcakes today does not help.

This is a recipe that I want to get perfected for the upcoming school season as I think they will do well at the bake sales.  The scary part about this cupcake is simply the frosting.  It just looks scary but when you breakdown the recipe it’s quite simple: store brought shredded coconut, store brought pecans, egg yolks, sugar and butter.  See – a snap.

You will have to decide if you make the cupcakes themselves from scratch or use a bake mix.  For me it comes down to time.  I’m not going to kid myself and tell you it always taste better from scratch as I’m not that good.  I just want to perfect the topping, once I have that down the rest I can do in my sleep.

Good Luck!! Click the Recipe button and BAKE!!

Mississippi Mudslide Cupcakes

This past week was Easter and we hosted at our house.  I did a little pot luck dinner on Saturday with 25 people.  Can you imagine, 25 people including 9 kids from ages 13 down to 2.  Even though it was Pot Luck, the amount of work I had to do was ridiculous, not to mention painting and hiding eggs.

When it was all over, and everyone had gone home and the dishes were wash and put away, I looked over at my daughter and said,

“Guess what Mommy forgot – to put OUT THE CUPCAKES!”

That’s right, in all the drama, I forgot to put out my dessert!  I poured my daughter a tall glass of milk and we plowed through one and a half of these cupcakes each.  Life never tasted so good.

I then told her that when she gets older if she eats like this she will have thighs like a pregnant Kim Kardashian.  Hopefully that will teach her to not do what mommy does.

WATCH-OUTS

The watch out here is to read the recipe closely.  The Cookbook Queen is a beast.  She has marshmallows and frosting in the center of these babies.  I actually almost missed that.  Who knew?  The same will go for eating. No one will suspect the marshmallow and frosting goodness in the center when they bite into it.  You are expecting chocolate cupcake, but end up with much s’more.  (Get it?)

Also, a few of the cupcakes will look like a sunken mess.   Just like spackle on the wall, cover it up with frosting.  Easy work.  Click the Recipe button and get ready for some chocolate goodness.

Thanksgiving Day Purple Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Candied Pecans

Don’t be thrown off by the purple sweet potato.  I sure was.  I actually never heard of a purple sweet potato until this recipe.  That goes to show you what kind of chef I am.

They look exactly like sweet potatoes but they are purple.  When I say exactly, I mean exactly.  Shoprite didn’t carry them, I had to hunt them down at whole foods just because I’m obsessed with trying to stay true to a recipe.  You can use regular sweet potatoes and it should taste just as great.

Ok, maybe I didn’t stay  completely “true” to the recipe.  I decided not to candy my own Pecans.  I walked by them in the aisle and brought them. I figured, if I ran out of steam towards the end of the recipe, I could use them….Guess what? This b*tch ran out of steam.  But I had good intentions.  Let’s see how well you do….hit the “Recipe”  button and BAKE!