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Watermelon Cupcakes with Watermelon Buttercream « From Apples To Zucchini. Hungry for more? New recipes are being served up right here! . Thanks for visiting! More melon madness – I hope y’all don’t mind! I was laying in bed thinking about making the muffins when watermelon buttercream popped into my head. Since watermelon is such a muted flavor, I decided to add it to both the cupcake itself along with the buttercream. But…there is no mistaking the flavor in the buttercream – it screams Watermelon! Due to the moisture in the pulp, you will be adding more sugar than you typically do in your standard buttercream, but it was still delicious, and not sickeningly sweet like you might fear. Make sure you squeeze the pulp as dry as possible, though, or you may not have a successful batch of buttercream on your hands. These make quite a statement on your plate, and you’ll become a hero to anyone you serve these to.

Caramel Apple Cupcakes. I have issues with biting fruit.

Caramel Apple Cupcakes

Does anyone else share this problem? I feel like there has to be some apple-biting scaredy-cat out there somewhere. I cannot be the only one frightened to bite into fruit. Reassure me, someone– anyone. Root Beer Float Cupcakes Recipe w/ Swiss Meringue Buttercream. The other day I received a big package of goodies from my friends at Zatarain’s.

Root Beer Float Cupcakes Recipe w/ Swiss Meringue Buttercream

At the very top of the box was a bottle of their Root Beer Extract, including a recipe for making homemade root beer. The box couldn’t have come at a better time as I was in the middle of making my “things we want to do this summer to make the summer fun” list for the kids. You know that list, with all the great expectations on it, that no matter how hard you try to achieve everything on it you fail?

Then, at the end of the summer you look back at the list of things you didn’t get done then feel like a failure of a mom for not making summer the absolute best it can be? Yeah, that’s the list. Recipes « Candy Stilettos. Lately is seems that everyone around me is feeling under the weather.

Recipes « Candy Stilettos

Pineapple Orange Cupcakes, Gluten Free. Florence, one of my spare back-up moms, actually might love cake more than I do.

Pineapple Orange Cupcakes, Gluten Free

In fact, listening to her colorful description of her favorite pineapple orange cake made me wonder why I didn’t go over to her house for dessert more often when I was a kid. That vivid description also made me run to the kitchen and start baking the second we got off the phone. Yes, people still do use telephones – with cords attached. There is something about this cupcake that reminds me of a warm summer day when we were small kids back about two centuries. We’d be playing outside and the ice cream truck would come singing along – remember the ice cream truck tune? You could ramp up the tropical and add some coconut to the cupcake or put a bit on top of the icing. This one’s for my friend, Florence. Ingredients 7 oz. sugarzest of one orange and one lemon7 oz. Orange creamsicle cupcakes. As of this weekend, we have only one house!

orange creamsicle cupcakes

We are all moved out of the old place, and can relax a little bit. Then I start unpacking here… In the short time we have been in our new house, we have met a few of the neighbors, all very nice. S'mores Cupcakes. If you are an American (and by which I mean, if you live on United States of American soil, no matter your immigration status…naturalized, illegal, DAR, we are non-discriminatory in the EatsWellWithOthers kitchen) then it is your constitutional right.

S'mores Cupcakes

Nay, your DUTY, to make these this weekend. It’s right there, clearly written in-between the lines of Amendment 18. Thou shalt not drink, therefore thou shalt make cupcakes. Duh. I’m dating a lawyer now. (Just to be clear, though. Clearly.) Bubblegum Cupcakes. Is it weird that my 4 year old told me today that he wanted to be an organ donor?

Bubblegum Cupcakes

(Then he continued the conversation by saying, "Like maybe they could use my face. ") I'd really like to know who he knows that doesn't have a face, but that's a topic for another day. This is the same kid who was discussing politics with his teacher last week. Coconut Cupcake Recipe. Chocolate cupcakes with malted frosting and toasted marshmallow filling « There Goes the Cupcake… The first time I spotted these cupcakes I knew they would be perfect for a coworker’s birthday.

Chocolate cupcakes with malted frosting and toasted marshmallow filling « There Goes the Cupcake…

Never did I imagined I would find these to be one of the best cupcakes I have ever had. I am not a chocolate cupcake person, alway been partial to vanilla but something about the combination of malt, chocolate and the marshmallow filling holy cow it was insane seriously like crack, I was in love. To emphasize even more how good these are, my husband who doesn’t like cupcakes, ate 4, yes not only ate 4 but did the over the kitchen sink-hope my wife doesn’t see me-because I am stuffing myface-good.

I think it goes without saying, these were an enormous hit at work, in fact people were fighting over them. Cherry Coke Float Cupcakes.