I'm going to a Hallowe'en themed birthday party tonight, so I made some vampire bite cupcakes, and graveyard cupcakes. They're all the same cupcake recipe (Black Midnight), and I used White Mountain for the frosting. For the graveyard cupcakes I coloured some of the frosting green and topped it with green coconut flakes, then stuck a chocolate tombstone cookie in each. That recipe came from colonelduckie - thanks very much!

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Cupcake assortment for a shower.

Cross posted in my Journal

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In addition to my job as "maker of the wedding cakes," during my recent trip I added on the task of baking some cupcakes for my nephew's 10th birthday which had passed a few days before.

I had some cute little star-shaped marshmallows an an idea I'd wanted to use for a child's birthday, so full steam ahead I went!

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 My thesis chair asked me to create cupcakes for her union after not finding  cupcakes at our local San Diego spots that she really loved. This is the first round I gave her a few weeks back as a taste test:

They looked a lot cooler in my head. o_O



It was supposed to be after this:


But I'm so terrible with the piping bag! >__<

Ah well at least they taste good.
They are white cake, filled with blueberry preserves, and cream cheese frosting.

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so i came across this community this morning (hi! *waves*) and i just HAD to make cupcakes, i adored how they looked and i definitely wanted to know how they taste.
i wasn't quite sure whether i'd manage everything as i'm german, but i absolutely insist that my english isn't that bad and so i tried my best and here's the result:

my first rainbow cupcakes EVER ....

I made these to take to the movies tonight.
But with no black food colouring in the house, the characters were kind of limited.



( Riddler, Joker & Robin Cupcakes! )

x-posted a bit.

Tonight, I made chocolate cupcakes for my co-worker, whose birthday is tomorrow. Because he doesn't like large amounts of icing, I just applied a thin layer of chocolate buttercream with a knife. They looked a little bare, so I topped each one with half a glace cherry.



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In honor of I Want To Believe...

( X-Files Cupcakes )

For me, really hate summer. Honestly I do. I do not like the heat or the humidity that comes. I'm the fall and winter kind of person. There isn't really anything at all that I like about summer... Well, I mean, except for the sales.

Fruit sales to be exact. Fruits, like strawberry's, blueberries, raspberries and watermelon are usually pretty pricey during other seasons and I tend to stay away from really getting to much fruit during fall or winter being that they are to expensive! We really don't want to have to pay for it (we're pretty cheap). But when summer comes, we go crazy on buying fruit!

There are so many things to do with fruits. What we usually do is we make a fruit salad (which doesn't last long around here), parfaits, smoothies, baked goods (what I usually do with them), there's so much you can do with fruit. Over here, strawberries have been Buy 1, Get 1, so it's what we've been getting the most. Also, it's my mums favorite. Ever since she started new medication for her lupus, she's been needing to eat a lot of fruit, like strawberries and grapes, because the new medication she's taking will make her gain a lot of weight if she's not careful. And she'd rather not gain weight so she's been trying to be really careful as to what she eats.

I thought we had a lot of strawberries in the fridge right now so I decided to put the strawberries to better (sweeter) use. It won't be that big of a deal to use some of them for myself. The cupcakes are very simple. The texture of these cupcakes are moist and light and I really, really liked them with the cream cheese frosting. The added flavor to the cream cheese is delicious. I didn't know if it would do much for the frosting but the addiction to it was amazing! It was so good! It's classic.

These were AMAZING!!! Chocolate mint cake ( that tasted like the most amazingly moist mint brownie) with mint white chocolate glaze in the center topped with a chocolate glaze and an after dinner mint.....amazing!!!!!!!

Hello Everyone , This morning I decided to make a fruity cupcake - heres the results !



( Red Raspberry Roses )

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This is just boxed white cake mix (doctored up) and from-the-can frosting. I had to make these on a weekday after work, and the thought of making 72 mini cupcakes from scratch made me want to scratch my eyes out. So I cheated. :)

The red isn't as red as I wanted, it's more of a faded red. But I used an entire tube of gel red food coloring, plus half a bottle of liquid red. And that's all I had in the house.

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I had previously used this recipe last year for my cousin's 21st birthday, but I feel it works better in smaller portions with lots of icing. Thus, cupcakes! :D
The cupcake don't rise to the idealistic 'dome' shape that many cupcakes have (it doesn't have eggs and the butter isn't creamed)  -  the lack of shape is then made up with chocolate icing ;)

 
 

Oaty Shortbread, Double Chocolate & Peppermint Muffins, Little Gingerbread Cakes... Just another day in Rainy England (as you can tell by the light in the photograph! Is it ever sunny here?!)



( I've got a bottle of wine to keep me company in writing this, so... Clicky Clicky for More Pictures, far far too much Text & a Rough Guide to my favourite but not traditional Cannelloni )

I posted a few older pics to a cupcake community , thought maybe you guys would like to see too!

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I had so much fun making these cupcakes for my friend's daughters 1st birthday. The party colors were pink and orange and had a butterfly/garden theme. Here's what I created!



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