Delicious Photos and the Recipes to Create them!
As I continue to look for the best recipes that the internet have to offer, I discovered that there is an entire Girl Scout series of cupcakes that not only include mint thins, Snikerdoodles but my favorite Samoa’s.
Sometime Samoa’s are called Caramel Delights which is exactly how I feel. Delighted!
If you are feeling really ambitions or perhaps you want to make your own Samoas. Honestly….I took one look at the recipe, took another look at the two boxes of Samoa’s I had in my kitchen cabinet and it was a no-brainer. I was just not feeling that ambitious. The recipe is here.
In case you were wondering why Samoas are so good…Sugar is the first ingredient listed on the package.
I promise you these taste just as good as they look. Hit the Recipe button and BAKE!
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Look at these beauties!!
I had the recipe for these a few weeks ago however, the whole Boston bombing thing was a little too much and honestly I didn’t want to mention Boston when telling my kids why these cupcakes looked the way they did. So rather than make them and call them something else, I figured I would wait a few weeks until Boston is out of the news. As it’s still fresh in our memories, thank goodness the kids have moved past the experience on to something new.
Then I can bake and explain to my kids how a Boston Cream Pie is really a cake, and how it’s filled with custard and more importantly how great it all tastes!!
For this recipe you have a choice you can make things really easy by buying chocolate syrup and Vanilla pudding or you can make your own chocolate Ganache glaze and custard from scratch. For me it depends on how much time I have, the mood and who is getting the cupcakes.
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It’s Cinco De Mayo and for us that means fight night. We host at our house because next week we will be at my sister’s house for Mother’s day.
Fight night means a bunch of out of shape men yelling at a bunch of in shape rich men and me running around making sure that everyone is happy. I noticed that we had an abundance of Chocolate based snacks but I still wanted to make some cupcakes. Removing chocolate out of the ingredient list left me with very few offerings so I hit the internet to come up with an alternative.
Voila! By way of a site called “Just Putzing.com” I found exactly what I was looking for, a Cheese cake, apple cupcake.
This recipe is of the variety that I like. It looks difficult but really isn’t. The apple topping is made from scratch and I recommend sticking to that strategy because unlike the store brought apple topping, you can tune this in to your liking. I guess you can tune the store brought stuff in to but there is much more satisfaction in cutting, coring and cooking the apples in a saucepan. Don’t be afraid to add a little “KICK” to the lemon juice and cinnamon for the apples. A touch of whiskey goes a long way with the fellas.
Hit the recipe button and start baking!! Or as we say on fight night, Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!!!
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After a tough and very emotional week, being so close to Boston there were tons of questions and conversations that had to be had with the kids. Now that all of that is hopefully over, it was time for a feel good recipe. Looking in the fridge and seeing that my dear husband brought more strawberries then anyone could possibly eat in a week I decided that it was my duty as a frugal wife to put them to good use, and what goes better with strawberries….then Chocolate.
To go for the pretty appearance I though a pink buttercream frosting would be nice. For the cupcakes themselves, any chocolate cupcake recipe should be fine. Dare I say if short on time pick up a simple box mix. Shhh…..
After you make he frosting, top with a cherry and drizzle with chocolate. Here is the Recipe:
INGREDIENTS 3 sticks unsalted butter, softened pinch of fine grain sea salt 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 pounds confectioners’ sugar, sifted 6 ounces strawberries, pureed 4-6 tablespoons heavy cream
How to make strawberry Puree:
Directions to make the Frosting:
1. In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, cream butter on medium speed until fluffy. Turn your mixer down to low speed and slowly add in the confectioner’s sugar, and continue mixing until well blended.
2. Add salt, vanilla, 3 tablespoons of heavy cream and strawberry puree. Blend on low speed until moistened. Add an additional 1 to 3 tablespoons of heavy cream until you reach the desired consistency. Beat at high speed until frosting is smooth and fluffy
3. Pipe frosting onto cooled cupcakes and finish with a chocolate covered strawberry.
Warning: These are diet busters. These are cupcakes straight from the diet devil. Don’t bother trying to see how many calories these are…I will save you the trouble. They are 1.2 zillion!!
If you are wondering what’s on top, you read it correctly. Snickers Popcorn. To give you a sneak, it’s popcorn, sugar, corn syrup, caramel peanuts drizzled with chocolate.
Hint: Make extra because it’s THAT good. It won’t make it to the cupcakes.
WATCH OUTS:
OK – hit the RECIPE button and BAKE.
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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.
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This is more a decorating idea then a cupcake recipe. As you can see from the picture basically it’s using Jelly Beans to decorate the cupcakes in the shape of the flowers. This is super fast and super easy. Dare I say – you can even buy the cupcakes from the store if you are really rushed!!
WATCHOUTS:
My only watchout here is that all the Jelly Beans are not the same size. The best solution here is to use Jelly Belly’s. The other benefit with Jelly Belly’s is that they have flavors that you can possibly match up with the frosting.
This is definitely a recipe your ids can help with. They can do color sorting and flower making….or if they are like mine, they can play on the Ipad and just do cupcake eating.
Click the Recipe Button below for the details and more Photos!!
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