Posts Tagged ‘buttercream’

Baby Bluebird Cupcakes

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It’s a bit early for Easter, but I couldn’t resist making these nesting baby bluebird cupcakes from Martha Stewart – instructions here. Mine are nowhere near as cute as Martha’s – they are very easy to make, but the hardest part for me was piping those tiny beaks.  I don’t have a small leaf tip, [...]

Chocolate Avocado Cupcakes

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I had a very ripe avocado that I’ve had stored in the refrigerator for the past couple of days and was thinking of something to do with it.  I really love avocados, so I thought I’d see if I could find a recipe for avocado cupcakes.  Then I found the chocolate avocado cupcake recipe.  Very [...]

Baby Shower Cupcakes

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A couple of months ago a friend asked me if I’d like to bake two dozen cupcakes for a baby shower she was hosting for a friend of her’s.  Of course I said that I would, and that day was today.  She requested one dozen vanilla cupcakes and one dozen strawberry cupcakes, and for both [...]

Ghirardelli Devil’s Food Cake & Mocha Buttercream

Note, number of candles not relative to my age (although some could argue that)

Yesterday was my birthday, so I just had to bake a cake.  It took a while for me to decide what kind of cake I wanted and I ended up with a couple of recipes inside of a Ghirardelli 100% Cocao baking bar (that’s an unsweetened chocolate baking bar, in case you weren’t sure).  It [...]

Coffee Buttercream

Easy Coffee Buttercream

I spent some time searching for an easy coffee buttercream recipe, but the only ones I could find involved either raw egg whites, or was a Swiss meringue buttercream. I just wanted a regular coffee buttercream to frost the next batch of chocolate cupcakes that I would remove from the freezer. However, I could not [...]

Jupiter Cupcakes

Jupiter Cupcakes

These are Jupiter cupcakes for the solar system cupcake contest! The cake is chocolate with a kick of cayenne pepper to represent the heat of Jupiter’s core, and the center of the cupcake is filled with a soft whipped cream to represent the many layers of clouds on Jupiter. The frosting is a cream cheese/chocolate [...]

Iron Cupcake Earth: Cranberry

Iron Cupcake Earth: Cranberry

I’m going to admit first thing that I do not like the taste of cranberries, so I was a bit apprehensive about creating a cupcake for this particular Iron Cupcake: Earth challenge. It didn’t deter me, however, from my first entry into the cranberry challenge (I will submitting another entry this month); my green tea [...]

Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes

Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes With Pumpkin Buttercream

I’ve really been in the mood for pumpkin ever since my pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting turned out so well. I bought a can of pumpkin at the store the last time I was there and I’ve been trying to think of what to do with it. I decided on chocolate pumpkin cupcakes [...]

Chocolate Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Filling

Chocolate Cupcakes

How To Eat A Cupcake often inspires me. In her recent post about making Martha Stewart’s one-bowl chocolate cupcakes, she raved about how “INSANELY good” they are; with this sort of review, I just couldn’t resist trying these one-bowl chocolate cupcakes for myself. Now, remember that I had leftover cream cheese filling from those banana [...]

Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper Cupcakes

Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper Cupcakes

These cupcakes were a total spur of the moment decision. I had a bottle of Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper and I remembered having seen this recipe recently. I’m not sure if Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper or just plain Dr. Pepper is supposed to be used in this recipe, but I used the chocolate [...]