Eggnog Cupcakes withSpiced Rum. I am in full holiday swing! First it was the Peppermint Mocha Cupcakes, then Gingerbread Latte Cupcakes, and now Eggnog Cupcakes. I’m thinking you will really like this one. Boozy or not, you choose-but don’t skip the eggnog in the cupcake. The added fat and cream from the eggnog along with the flavor turns an ordinary vanilla cupcake into a cheerful holiday treat. Topping off this holiday treat is a spiced rum buttercream frosting. Eggnog Cupcakes with Spiced Rum Buttercream Frosting This past weekend I was getting ready to roll out some dough, but in a rush I very clumsily dropped my marble pastry board and it broke. I’m not sure, but I did and I was not looking forward to fighting my way through a holiday shopping crowd to get into William Sonoma for just one item.
A nice sugar rush will provide you all the energy you need to get moving. . . . A few notes: The cupcake base is adapted from Magnolia’s Bakery. Eggnog Cupcakes with a Spiced Rum Buttercream Ingredients: Cupcakes: Instructions: Banana Walnut Cupcake Recipe. • 1 cup packed brown sugar • 1/2 cup butter • 1/4 cup heavy cream • 1 cup chopped walnuts • 1/2 cups sugar • 3 tablespoons all purpose flour • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1 cup 2% milk • 1 large egg, beaten• 1 tablespoon butter • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 2 medium, ripe bananas sliced thin • whipped cream Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pans with paper or foil liners. Prepare cupcake topping by combining brown sugar, butter, and cream in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly while heating. Pour into bottom of liners, evenly dividing the topping mixture. Prepare cupcake batter by creaming sugar and softened butter in a large mixing bowl.
In a separate bow, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of cupcakes comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in pans for 3 minutes and then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. While cupcakes are baking, you should prepare the filling. Remove from heat. Applesauce Cupcake Recipe. Ingredients • 1 cup whole wheat flour • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour • 1 1/2 cups sugar • 1 cup finely chopped, peeled apple (I prefer to use Granny Smith or Jonagold apples for baking) • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts • 1 teaspoon baking powder• 1 teaspoon baking soda • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon • 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg • 2 large eggs • 1 1/2 cups applesauce • 1/2 cup melted butter Applesauce Cupcake Recipe Directions Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
Add eggs, butter, and applesauce. Mix for 2 minutes at slow speed. Scrape bowl. Mix at medium speed for 1 minute. Your oven should be preheated to 350 degrees. spoon cupcake batter into cupcake pans lined with paper or foil cupcake liners. Bake your cupcakes for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Top with caramel topping or frosting and enjoy! Orange Cupcake Recipe. Raspberry White Chocolate Buttercream Cupcakes Recipe. Key Lime Cupcake Recipe. • 2 cups all purpose flour • 1 1/2 cups sugar • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 3/4 cup cold water • 1/2 cup oil • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla• 7 large eggs, separated • 2 teaspoons grated key lime rind • 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 cupcake pans with paper liners. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add shortening, milk, and vanilla. Beat 7 egg yolks in a separate bowl, and add to dry ingredients along with the water, oil, vanilla and key lime rind.
Mix with mixer at medium speed while scraping bowl until well blended. In another large mixing bowl, combine egg whites and cream of tartar. Carefully fold flour mixture into egg whites until just blended. Pour cupcake batter into paper liners until 1/2 to 2/3 full. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly. Cool cupcakes completely in pans then drizzle with key lime glaze. Raspberry Iced Tea Cupcakes Recipe. Lemon Cupcake with Blackberry Buttercream Recipe. Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cupcakes Recipe. Apple Cupcakes with Cinnamon-Marshmallow Frosting Recipe. Starbucks Frappacinos. Cupcake Style. « Kimz Kitchen. UDATE: The cupcake tips I used for the frosting on this are on sale on Amazon right now – get the cupcake decorator’s set for only $6.06 – down from $8.99! (This price can change anytime though – so look before you buy!) After the many requests for this recipe and how-to, I thought I’d take some pictures and post this recipe. My brother in law is getting married tomorrow, and since he and his lovely bride-to-be met at Starbucks, a Starbucks themed rehearsal dinner – with these cupcakes for dessert – was quite in order.
Keep in mind that at the end, you’ll see two different kinds of cupcakes – I did Caramel Frappucino ones and Double Chocolate Chip Frappacino ones. The recipe you’ll see here is for the caramel ones. I borrowed very largely from this lovely blogger here for the recipe and inspiration! For the Cupcakes:Recipe heavily adapted from Apartment Therapy’s The Kitchn Heat the milk in the microwave or on the stove until hot – stop short of a simmer. 2 1/2 cups chilled whipping cream. Lavender Party Treats. Picking a theme or color is actually my first step when planning a party! After that, the other ideas begin to flow. It’s really easy. Start by choosing the details you want to use, then think of ways you can incorporate your party colors to match the theme of the party. For example, if I was going to have a purple party (similar to the one featured on the Martha Stewart show, so cute!)
, I would create purple desserts, like my Lavender Colored Cupcakes, just by adding food coloring. You can also buy items like cupcake wrappers, candy and cocktail napkins that match the party colors. Bake some yummy cupcakes! Add a few drops of purple (or blue and red) food coloring into the white frosting. Pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes and garnish with a small piece of purple licorice. Mmmm…. fresh-squeezed lemonade! Perfect Purple Party Treats Purple-ricific Layer Cake Sparkle Magic Jelly Shots Stokes Purple Sweet Potatoes Creme Brulee Lavender Colored Lemonade. Pumpkin Cupcakes With Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting | The Stir - StumbleUpon. I couldn't believe my eyes this week when I saw the ad for Pumpkin Spice Lattes in my local Starbucks. Pumpkin Spice already? But there's still a little more summer to be had, isn't there?
Of course, it was impossible to stay upset for too long; after all, this is lovely pumpkin -- one of my favorite flavors of all time -- that we're talking about! So, I ransacked my pumpkin-flavored recipes to find this one for Pumpkin Cupcakes. You'll recognize that it's a classic, but the cinnamon in the Cream Cheese Frosting gives it a little something extra.
Even if you're mourning the passing of summer, there's no way you cannot enjoy this lovely autumnal dessert. Pumpkin Cupcakes With Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting from AllRecipes Ingredients For cupcakes For frosting 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened1/4 cup butter, softened3 cups confectioners' sugar1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 teaspoon ground cinnamon Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Image via shimelle/Flickr. Pina Colada Cake Recipe. Root Beer Float Cake Recipe. Five-Minute Chocolate Mug Cake. Sugar Cookie Cupcakes Accidentally Delicious #Recipe. Here I am in my kitchen with this gorgeous hot pink mixer prepped and ready to stir the heck out of my cake batter masterpiece. I’ve got my bag of flour, sugar, eggs, butter and miscellaneous ingredients ready to go. In my mind I’m envisioning this fluffy cupcake richly flavored with white chocolate and topped with a mound of white chocolate buttercream.
The reality is, there’s not a drop of white chocolate in the cupcakes I made. Why? Because I burned the dang chocolate that’s why! It really irks me because I’m always very careful about melting chocolate. Anyways, so I burned the chocolate but I didn’t give up. Maybe it was the vanilla bean paste or perhaps the crapload of sugar I poured in the batter, whatever the magical ingredient was, it made cupcakes that taste just like sugar cookies. Oh and aside from totally messing up the white chocolate, it dawned on me after I finished baking the cupcakes that the reason my batter was so thick was because I forgot the milk. Ingredients. One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes For Two. Let’s face it: sometimes we all need a dessert that only makes two servings. Sometimes we just can’t handle 12 servings. Sometimes we eat them all by ourselves. Sometimes we eat them all by ourselves in two hours.
Sometimes we eat them all by ourselves in a matter of minutes. Sometimes it’s the best thing ever. FYI: I have no idea what that is like. Haven’t you always wished you could make just enough dessert for yourself? Or… just yourself? Me too. But more often than not, I’ve found it to be a hassle to drag out the mixer, cream the sugar and butter, sift the dry ingredients and all that fun stuff for a measly two cupcakes. What can I say? Well, I was lazy. It is definitely your typical white cake; fluffy and soft, full of vanilla flavor, and the perfect vehicle for some fluffy white frosting. And it only takes one bowl!
I think what I love most about these cupcakes is their customizability. [print_this] One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes for Two serves 2 1 egg white 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 cup flour. Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes Recipe. As I mentioned on Friday, I have been doing some experimentation with the beer and chocolate combination. The Guinness-chocolate ice cream that I made totally kicked butt, so I couldn’t wait to see how I liked beer and chocolate in my cake. The answer? I like it, a whole heck of a lot. This was my first time doing Guinness-chocolate cakes, and I was totally optimistic that I would love it, and I was definitely right. These cupcakes are fashioned after the popular drink that consists of a shot of Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey dropped into a pint of Guinness. I have never had one myself, but I’ve heard that if you can get it down before it curdles, it’s smooth, delicious and almost tastes like a milkshake.
I’ll believe it because these cupcakes are all sorts of delicious. These cupcakes consist of a Guinness-chocolate cake base, which has a wonderful depth of flavor and is also supremely moist. Two year ago: Sour Cream Coffee CakeThree years ago: Pot Roast in the Crock Pot. Chocolate Cupcakes with Flaming Strawberries. Call me easily amused, but these little torch-topped cupcakes delight me. Besides being a cute novelty item for a party, I think they would add a little drama to the end of a romantic meal. I've been looking for something different to serve for Valentine's dessert, and this is definitely different. The strawberries are hollowed out and filled with a bit of liquor, then ignited with a match. For the cake portion, I chose a One Bowl Chocolate Cupcake recipe because 1. it's quick 2. it is easy, and 3. it fits my prerequisite for a light ending on date night.
I should say, a light ending provided you don't eat too many. Which is really, really easy to do. The cakes are just sweet enough, and have a light, fluffy crumb - the perfect vehicle for rich chocolate buttercream. Notes for flaming strawberries:Any alcohol below 80 proof will not ignite well. Shaina made a margarita version of this on Babble Food. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with cupcake papers and set aside. Easter Cupcakes Baked in Real Egg Shells ~ Cupcake Project.
I watched my Grandmother’s face when she realized that I hadn’t handed her a hard boiled egg but rather a cake baked inside a real egg shell. Her eyes were filled with wonder and I could envision what she must have looked like as a tyke the very first time she saw a red balloon float across the sky or the the trunk of a giant elephant spewing a stream of water. “Crack it on the table,” I told her. Eggs were cracked, cupcakes were eaten, and I was perceived as a cupcake Houdini. Update 3/19/2012: For the basic instructions on these Easter cupcakes, keep reading. To see another example of them with dyed eggs and cream cheese “yolk” filling, see my latest version of these Easter cupcakes. I modeled my cupcakes in egg shells after Nicky’s egg shell cupcakes from Delicious Days. Yield: 10 large egg cupcakes What you’ll need: 9 large eggs (Only one will get used in the cake.
To prepare the eggs: Carefully poke a small hole in the top of each egg. Turn the egg upside-down and dump out the contents.