Cupcakes for a wedding showcase

As promised, here's a few more pictures of the cupcakes made for a wedding showcase last week.
Let us know your thoughts and what you would like to see more of...

before black magic mixed

black magic before it was baked

oh yum!!! almost all done

the making of red velvet

red velvet out of the oven

the cupcakes on the cooling rack

vanilla with strawberry frosting

 

red velvet with cream cheese frosting

black magic

finished products ready for delivery

Red Velvet Cream Cheese Cupcakes

We love red velvet, just can't get enough of it! So of course when there's a twist for it, we had to go give it a try. Check out the Red Velvet Cream Cheese Cupcakes (recipe from Lick The Bowl Good) that was baked this weekend at our kitchen.

Red Velvet Cream Cheese cupcakes surrounding our chocolate cupcakes topped with raspberry frosting

 

Ingredients:

Filling:

• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 ½ tablespoons lightly beaten egg (break egg, mix with fork, measure)
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Batter:

• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons unsweetened natural cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon red food coloring
• 3/4 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 tablespoons sour cream

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line muffin cups with paper liners.
2. Prepare filling first. With a mixing spoon, beat together softened cream cheese and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and stir until smooth. Set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl, thoroughly stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
4. In a second mixing bowl, stir together oil, sugar, vinegar, egg, red food coloring, vanilla and sour cream. Mix very well, then add the flour mixture and stir just until blended.
5. Measure out approximately 1/3 cup red mixture and set aside. Divide remaining red mixture among the 8 muffin cups – each cup should be a little over 1/3 of the way full. Spoon cream cheese mixture over red mixture, dividing evenly between all cups. Drop small spoonfuls of reserved red batter on top of cream cheese mixture, making a bulls-eye pattern.
6. Bake for 20-23 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Carefully remove lift muffins from cups.

Best served slightly chilled. – Makes 8-9

A little Black Magic

Here's a little sneak peak of our black magic mini-cupcakes for the a showcase tomorrow. More to come....

St. Patty's Day - Lucky Green Velvet Cupcakes

Check out this yummy recipe for green velvet cupcakes...just in time for St. Patty's Day that we wanted to share with all. (recipe by bakerella)

Ingredients For Cupcake:

• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 Tablespoon cocoa
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup oil
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 Tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 oz green food coloring

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 1 package of softened cream cheese
• 1/4 cup softened butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 bag powdered sugar (2 lb bag)
• Milk as needed

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease your muffin/cupcake tin.
3. Lightly stir eggs in a medium bowl with whisk. Add in remaining liquid ingredients (except food coloring). Whisk until blended and sit aside.
4. Place all dry ingredients in your mixing bowl and stir together well. Now take a deep breath and dump all that food coloring, yes the entire bottle, into the wet ingredients. Mix well.
5. Pour your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients and mix on medium-high for about a minute or two until well combined and green as the day is long.
6. Pour the batter into cupcake pan.
7. Bake for 16 minutes approx. Then, while they’re cooling, you can start making the frosting.
8. Cream together cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in a bowl until smooth. Gradually add in powdered sugar and continue mixing. Add in milk as needed to get to the desired consistency.
9. Now frost and decorate until your little heart is content.

ENJOY! 

Glamorous 30

Happy 30th Birthday to a very dear friend! For her birthday she had a glamorous party at an art gallery where red velvet cupcakes and mini cupcakes were served to her guests. Check out some of the cupcakes below!

mini cupcakes

OREO Cookie Balls

We're inspired to try to make this recipe for Oreo Cookie Balls by Kraft. Doesn't it look just so delicious. Here's the recipe to share AND it's simple...and we'll let you know our result when we try to make it soon.

Ingredients: 

1 package (8oz.) Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened

36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 3 cups)

2 package (8 squares each) BAKER'S semi-sweet chocolate, melted

wax paper

How to make it:

MIX the cream cheese and cookie crumbs until well blended.

SHAPE it into balls. Freeze for 10 minutes. Dip balls in melted chocolate, place on wax paper 

Then put refrigerate it for about an hour or until firm. 

How simple was that! 

Cupcakes for Birthday!

Check out the vanilla cupcake with nutella hazelnut buttercream frosting we did for a mini birthday celebration!