I meant to take photos along the way as I made these, but I forgot. Bah! So these are pumpkin cupcakes. I used this recipe, but without the nuts. I also used that recipe for the cream cheese frosting, although I think I ended up using more powdered sugar and […]
Halloween cupcakes! These are yellow cake, made from a recipe in my handy Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, with basic vanilla buttercream frosting. The little toppers were purchased at JoAnn Fabric; the mummy parts were sent by my mom (I think from WalMart or Target).
No real reason for these, except I wanted to try a new spice cake recipe! Made with cream cheese frosting and adorable little fall-themed sprinkles I found at the craft store.
It was my boyfriend’s son’s 7th birthday, and he loooooves penguins! The cupcakes are chocolate and white cake swirl, and the frosting is basic buttercream. Most of the penguins turned out adorably, but oh no! A mutant! AAAAUGH!
For a coffee-lover’s birthday, I used a recipe from The Cupcake Bible (one of my favorite books – I am forever grateful to my former neighbor for telling me about it) to make these cute cappuccino cupcakes. The base is chocolate cake from a mix, but you add in coffee […]
Over the summer, we had college students interning for us at work. They went to WSU in Eastern Washington, a school whose colors are crimson and gray. On their last day I wanted to bring in cupcakes, so I tried my hand at double-colored frosting for the first time. Well, […]
This was a new recipe that I got from The Cupcake Bible. Someone wanted cupcakes for his birthday, and I happen to know he’s a huge fan of bacon – so this was the perfect excuse to try this out! The cupcakes are just a basic cake recipe with bits […]
It was time for the Pride celebration in Seattle, so I thought some themed cupcakes were in order! That’s my kind of parade…
Movie night at work: The Goonies!!
I had some caramel buttercream leftover, so I made chocolate cupcakes and piped that into the middle. Topped with vanilla frosting and then swirls of homemade caramel! They were so wonderfully messy.