New Year’s Champagne Glass White Cupcakes [Recipe]

These are perfect for the Champagne toast during New Year’s or any other special occasions where Champagne is most likely to be served.

The recipe itself is quite simple.  It’s a standard white cupcake made with white cake mix.  If you want to bake them from scratch, as most hard core bakers will, then you can follow this recipe instead of the boxed.

The candy beads are candies called sixlets.  They can be found here on Amazon but also where ever you buy your normal baking supplies from.  Hobby Lobby has them for about $6.00 and some Wal-Mart’s carry them as well.

For the champagne glasses the shallower the better.  It will take some looking to search them out, but you actually want to use disposable margarita glasses.  I found mine at the dollar store.

When baking the cupcakes make them more like muffins.  Fill the pan up so that they crown over so the tops puff out enough to span the diameter of the margarita glass.  Frost them and then add your sixlets.  Adding the sixlets is agonizing but after the first one is done you will be so happy with the result, the rest will be fun.

Hit the Recipe Button below for the original Full Recipe!  Happy New Year’s

Melting Snowman Topped Cupcakes [Recipe]

In the nature of Christmas and all things winter I thought these were cute and could easily go on top of a cupcake! You can either put a cookie with the snowman on top of the cupcake, or put the melted snowman directly on top of the cupcake. Both work, and both look amazing.
Here are the steps to make the Snow and the snow man:

• Line a baking sheet with waxed paper.
• Place cooled cookies on prepared baking sheet.
• In a medium microwave-safe bowl microwave candy coating on 50% power for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes or until melted and smooth, stirring every 30 seconds.
• Spoon melted coating over each cookie to cover cookie and resemble melted snow.
• While coating is still tacky, add a peanut butter cup for a top hat and decorate with sprinkles or other candies to resemble snowman faces (If using frosting to make snowman faces, add it when the candy coating is dry.)
• Let stand until set.

Like the other recipes, I’ve supplied the link to the recipe, but I also wanted to point out some things to make it easier.
VANILLA CANDY
The Vanilla Candy Coating used for the snowman can be found at Hobby Lobby, Joann’s Fabric or Michael s. I could not find it at our supermarket.
SNOWMAN HATS
They use a mini Reese’s cup. The top rim is sliced off from the top of the cup. Then the bottom of the remaining portion is chopped for the top of the hat. The middle portion left is for you to snack on while your baking. 
LAST TIP
Don’t be so quick to put the Reese’s cup in the snow because they will start to melt. Let things cool and then add the cups.

Eggnog, Cinnamon and Bourbon Cupcakes – [RECIPE]

What’s better than a little eggnog with your cupcakes? How about a little bourbon with your eggnog INSIDE your cupcakes. Sprinkle a little cinnamon in that mix and you have a holiday cupcake that will knock everyone’s Christmas stockings off.

I’m going to rate this recipe a medium level of difficulty because there are three pieces: The cupcakes themselves, the bourbon buttercream frosting and the nutmeg garnish. Three chances to get things screwed up. Be careful the batter is a little thin, but it works. It doesn’t work when it’s too thin.

Also, I could not find Cinnamon eggnog as the recipe calls for, but I just dumped cinnamon in the eggnog and rolled with it. The results were still DELISH! Click the Recipe Button and Bake!

Double Shot – Sweet Potato Bourbon Cupcakes

As Thanksgiving approaches so is the need to get creative with Sweet Potatoes, and nothing sparks creativity like a shot of Bourbon!
If you are at an adult function then you can really pour in the bourbon, so these are now like little sweet potato bourbon shots! How divine and naughty is that. The recipe is from bakerella and she suggests as well adding more whiskey. She says that if she had to make these over again, she would find a way to just add the bourbon to the vanilla glaze. So it’s now a double – a shot inside and a shot on top.
Warm these up after a meal with some coffee and its Nighty Night! You know what to do….hit the Recipe Button and BAKE!!

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!