Monster High Inspired Cupcakes

One of my very good friends was telling me one day that she needed to order a cake for her daughter's birthday get together but didn't know where to get it from.  So I told her what about cupcakes since that's what's in now, and I told her I'd make them...of course! So she asked her daughter and she said yes and wanted something with vampire teeth for a Monster High theme.

I knew right away I wanted to look for a vampire teeth chocolate mold and I got lucky that such thing did existed!   

I melted some red candy melts and used it as blood dripping from the fangs.

I also searched for a new chocolate cupcake recipe.  I swear I've found the perfect one!  Thanks to google, I found Glorious Treats's recipe.  These were amazing!  Not only did they produce a perfect looking cupcake, but the taste was amazing!  I had one the next day and they were still very moist!! This is definitely my go-to chocolate cupcake.

She also had a recipe for cream cheese frosting.  I've made cream cheese frosting before but decided to try hers since her cupcakes were so good.  Well this frosting was a bust.  It called for 4 cups of powdered sugar which is A LOT more than I've used before.  I tried it anyway...I was 3 cups in when I decided to try the frosting. It was sooooooooo grainy and super SWEET! I figured I'd use it anyway so I started piping it on the cupcakes.  But then I regretted it. So I took the frosting off and made a new batch with only 2 cups of sugar and it was so much better!!  

Theeeeen it didn't even dawn on me that the frosting was the same color of the chocolate decals.  You can't really see what it says in the pictures, but it says: 

Happy 

Birthday

Kayla

Happy .e.a.s.t.e.r. Cupcakes

This year I spent Easter with my second family.  I started pinning some cupcake ideas on Pinterest and finally settled on a peanut butter one and something with a whipped cream cheese frosting.  I must admit, most of the times I make cupcakes, I bake from a box.  This time I wanted to make everything from scratch.  So I researched some recipes and put these together.  

 Peanut Butter and Jelly (Peanut butter cream cheese frosting, vanilla cupcake, stuffed with strawberry jam)

 Chocolate Cream Cheese (Whipped cream cheese frosting, vanilla cupcake, stuffed with hot fudge)

 Peanut Butter Cup (Peanut butter cream cheese frosting, chocolate cupcake with a peanut butter cup hidden inside and then as a topper)

 Chocolate and Cream Cheese (Whipped cream cheese frosting with a chocolate cupcake and Robin Eggs as a topper)

Birthday Cupcakes

My boyfriend asked me if I could make him some cupcakes for his guards who had a birthday.  The first thing that popped in my mind was this sundae looking cupcake.  I needed something that was going to be for male and female. 

And then I needed a container to individually carry them.  When I first bought the cups and covers, my intentions were to put the cupcake in the cup and then put the top on.  Well I was waaaaay off on the size of the cupcakes...for some reason I pictured them bigger! I wanted to make sure the person would be able to take the cupcake out without getting frosting all over their fingers.  So I flipped it over and it worked perfectly!

Dr. Seuss Inspired

These pops were for a friend's daughter's 3rd birthday.  Everything was Dr. Seuss inspired at the party! She asked me to make some cake pops and she decided on the Cat in the Hat and the Truffula Trees.  I had no idea what a Truffula Tree was, so I went to trusty google. Coincidently, the cake pop queen Bakerella had just put a tutorial up on how to make them.  I read what she did and went for it.  Mine didn't come out as fluffy but I thought they were pretty close. 

The next struggle I had was the Hat.  I didn't want the stick going up.  I wanted the stick at the bottom and have the hat upright...does that make sense?  Well no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it how I wanted it.  So I settled with below...

Lesson learned: Not everything will go how I need it to go and I need to accept that.  Everyone still loved and enjoyed the pops!