Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes & Food Blogger Bake Sale This past weekend, we had our Central Florida Food Blogger Bake Sale as part of the National Food Blogger Bake Sale to benefit Share Our Strength. I'm pleased to announced that we raised over $1300!!! Considering our goal was to surpass last year's fundraising here in Central Florida and make it to $500, I call it a resounding success! Thank you to everyone who came out and bought our baked goods and bought raffle tickets. And a huge thank you to these food bloggers who baked and helped out so much! A little bit of the bake sale. I wanted to share with you the recipe for the cupcakes I made for the bake sale and then proceeded to make for the NASA Tweetup I attended for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour. The cupcake has the perfect moistness and icing is amazing. I knew I was going to love this recipe when I saw the batter was pudding-like. Recipe Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes Ingredients: Cupcakes Peanut Butter Buttercream Icing Directions: Peanut Butter Buttercream Some notes: Success!
Best Cocoa Brownies Best Cocoa Brownies The family I married into is pretty great. My sister-in-law is one of my most trusted friends. My father-in-law loves a long chat with his son and always tells him funny news stories that get back to me. So, before Linda and my sister-in-law went to France recently, she asked if my husband and I would like anything. “No, thanks. And then, she came back with this: This is deep, dark, pure unsweetened Valrhona cocoa powder, and it makes a chocolate brownie so light, so fluffy and perfectly moist that after one bite, you’d think you had died and gone to heaven. My first instinct was not that I needed to do something impressive like ganache or truffles with this lovely chocolate… My first instinct was to make a brownie, and simple as it may sound, it was a great way to really taste the cocoa’s deep, intense flavor through a really simple recipe. Some day soon, I’ll dream up other delicious ways to use the cocoa powder (ideas are welcome!) Craving more? Print Recipe 2 eggs
Buttercream Frosting Recipe One of the most common questions that I get from my readers is about buttercream frosting, so I figured this would be the perfect topic for my second Fundamentals post. Although I have made several types of buttercream frosting recipes, the recipe I am going post is by far my favorite due to its flavor, simplicity, and smooth texture. Essentially, this buttercream recipe can be infused with many different flavors to accompany your dessert. There are many variations of recipes for buttercream; however, I prefer using unsalted butter for the fat component because I find it to be less greasy than buttercream made with shortening. However, to each their own, if you’re a shortening fan, see the notes in the printable recipe box for this adaptation. This frosting is extremely easy to pipe on and holds a shape very well. Fundamental Information Basic Buttercream– This buttercream is, fast, simple and what you see on most grocery store cakes. Fundamental Gear Uses for Homemade Buttercream Notes:
Death By Oreo Cupcakes They are probably the best Oreo cakes I have ever tried. A lot of cake's that I have experimented with before are like a vanilla cake with bits of Oreo in them, which didn't really give them enough Oreo flavor. But these were a lot better. I used a dark chocolate fudge cake mix instead of just a regular chocolate cake mix, which went really well with the cookies and gave the cakes just a little more flavor. So, in this recipe there is Oreo's in the cake, in the frosting, and at the bottom is a Oreo surprise. That's right, you put a whole Oreo at the bottom of the cake. Ingredients 1 package Oreo Cookies, regular size 1 package Mini Oreo Cookies, for decoration (optional) 1 package chocolate cake mix (mix according to directions on box) 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), room temperature 3 3/4 cups powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract cupcake liners Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together butter and cream cheese. foodsnots.com
Slutty Brownies Recipe Happy Hump Day! I know I’ve posted about these slutty brownies before… but I just made a video to go along with them and thought it would be fun to share! Happy brownie making A few weeks ago I was perusing the interwebs, mainly pinterest, because it’s my latest obsession and I spend an inordinate amount of time pinning things that I want to eat, and things that I want at my wedding. Clearly these caught my attention immediately. So basically after I found these I made them approximately 23 times. You could easily make these with box mix, which is what the original recipe I found calls for, but I took it one step further and made these with my all time favorite rich chocolatly brownie recipe and my favorite chocolate chip cookie dough recipe. So basically you’ve got to make these. Ingredients For the Brownie layer: 10 tbsp unsalted butter1 1/4 cups white sugar3/4 cup cocoa powder1/2 tsp salt2 tsp vanilla extract2 large eggs1/2 cup AP flour For the Oreo layer: For the Cookie Dough layer:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Most of the time, the items that I bake are entirely random. I’ve never been one to really plan out my editorial calendar – what you see on MBA is typically just what I happened to bake the week prior. Most of the time the recipes are a direct reflection of what’s in my pantry, a form of my procrastination or a serious craving. Last week, I had the urge to make a cheesecake while Brian was pestering me for Chocolate Chip Cookies. His pleas for chocolate chip cookies are typically followed by one of my famous, overly dramatic eye rolls and mumbling under my breath that his boring requests are stifling my creativity. I simply can’t deny his food related requests – I save my denial credits up for things like trips to water parks and snow mobile purchases. I embraced the small divot created on top of the mini cheesecakes by the weight of the cookie dough pulling it down during baking, by of course, adding more chocolate. If you enjoyed this recipe, you may like...
Cupcake Recipes - Easy Cupcake Recipes to make perfect cupcakes everytime Home › Cupcake Recipes Cupcake Recipes for perfect cupcakes everytime - just follow these quick, easy recipes suitable for any occasion. A friend of mine once said "why do we spend so long making the cake when all the children want to eat is the icing?" Find delicious, quick, and easy cupcake recipes suitable for family gatherings, morning/afternoon teas and for special occasions. Most of my cup cake recipes are very easy to make and some don't even require the mixer. I have a couple of recipes that are slightly more time-consuming but believe me, they are well worth the extra effort. "You can't even look at a cupcake without smiling." This page contains my favorite cupcakes recipes. Chocolate Cupcakes Black Forest cupcakes - delicious blend of chocolate cake with cream and cherries. Brownie cupcakes - it seems that everyone loves cupcakes and everyone loves brownies so combine the two to make wonderful rich, moist brownie cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes - this recipe is fool-proof.
New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe I am not one to really repeat recipes in my kitchen and rarely here on MBA. However, sometimes a recipe is so incredibly good that it’s totally worth another post. These New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies certainly fit into that category and are hands down my absolute favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies. If you don’t believe me, hit up your friend Google and take a looksie. The method for New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies is certainly a bit different than what most of us are used to. I am certain the flour blend and long marinating time has something to do with the amazing texture of these cookies. They’re big, dense, chocolatey, and perfectly chewy. Their size alone is enough to intrigue people, and after one bite you’ll see pure bliss spread across peoples’ faces and they’ll be begging you for the recipe. This is one recipe that I don’t recommend messing with the first time you try them. Looking for more Chocolate Chip Cookie recipes?