My cupcakes boxes and some yummy cupcakes

Boxes of Cupcake Love!!!!

Check out these cupcake boxes my niece designed and decorated for me today......Perfect for my Christmas cupcake gifts :)

Awesome work Jaimi-lee........Thanks.........Love Ya

Special Thanks also to Leigh who found me the perfect ribbon and ordered it and sent it up for me Mwahhhhhhh :) Find Leigh's awesome work at Ribbonista
I have been waiting for days for these to go live *fingers crossed* I am around when they do :)

Fundraising for a Special Little Girl

Jessie is a special friend of one of my best friends ...........so we are all doing what we can to help raise some money for Little Jess.........Some lovely WAHMs have donated some wonderful products for us to auction :)
Find them here

We even have CUPCAKES LOL

Please help us help Jess by giving generously

Thanks to everyone who have helped out.....We really appreciate it

"Wemsical Cupcakes"

Sorry very pic heavy today LOL

I made these today for a little cupcake cooking comp we are running on a forum I visit.........I think they may become my "signature" cupcakes :) I am pretty happy with how they have turned out :)

Lesley sent me down a new piping bag and tip, so the icing is a bit dodgy as this was my first go with it.....should improve with practice I hope

I used lesley's vanilla cupcake recipe

Lesley's Vanilla Cupcakes

150gr butter - room temperature
3/4 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
2 cups SR flour
2 teaspoons lemon juice
dash of vanilla extract (I use 1 vanilla bean)

Pre heat oven to 180 deg

Beat until changed colour OR I do it like this

cream butter and sugar till pale, add eggs 1 at a time (mixing in each one)
add lemon juice and vanilla
add half the flour and milk, mix in, add in the remaining flour and milk mix till pale

Bake
Muffin pans 20 mins
cupcake pans 15 mins
mini pans 10 mins

You don't want them over cooked......just cooked is best (golden not brown )

and her buttercream recipe with a vanilla bean added for vanilla frosting

Lesley's frosting

250gr butter
1kg icing sugar

beat butter until smooth and then add icing sugar (give or take on the amount depends on how sweet you like it) .....beat until smooth and fluffy
You may need to add a few drops of milk if your frosting is a bit stiff.....only add a few drops at a time till you get the desired frosting
This makes enough for about 48 cupcakes but it can be stored in the fridge

Find Lesley's stuff here

I used tiny tots as decoration that I bought from here

Till next time 'Happy Cupcaking'

Mmmmmmmmm Sweet offerings for this weekend

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting and Reese's Pieces for decoration






These are not my favourite cupcakes but my Mum loves them so she gets them every now and again.....Probably not as often as she would like though LOL

Because I cook them for Mum I call them "Grammies" :)

I use this recipe for the cupcakes

Ingredients
2 1/4 cups plain flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (I some times use super crunchy for that extra peanut hit)
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 1/4 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla (sometimes I use 1 vanilla bean)
3 large eggs

Method

Preheat oven to 180 deg (160 for fan forced)

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl....Mix well till mixture becomes paler

Fill cupcake papers

Bake for 20 to 25 mins......Don't over cook

Frost then enjoy :)

and this recipe for the frosting
I got my Reese's pieces from this great lolly store *DROOL*

SnickerDoodle Cupcakes with Cinnamon Buttercream frosting and Snickedoodle Cookies













This is the first time I have cooked these cakes and cookies.....I like them but they aren't my favourites LOL

I used this recipe for the cookies

This recipe for the cakes

This recipe for the frosting

Till Next time "Happy Cupcaking"

Wemsical Logo

Do you like my new Logo??? I do, I love it :)

Huge big Thanks to Tracey, who kindly whipped it up for me

You can find some awesome stuff from Tracey Here

Thank you so much my wonderful friend xoxoxoxo :)

Cupcakes for GrandFather

My Grandfather ended up in hospital on the weekend, so most of the family were at the hospital for a few days. So what did I do??? Baked them all some Cupcakes of course :)


Medium Chocolate on Chocolate


Medium Chocolate on Chocolate


Medium Vanilla on Vanilla with Raspberry


Medium Passionfruit on Vanilla


Mini Vanilla on Vanilla


Mini Vanilla on Vanilla


Mini Chocolate on Chocolate


Mini Chocolate on Chocolate

The passionfruit on Vanilla ones were the favourite, followed closely by the mini vanilla on vanilla

I had to keep a very close eye on my cupcake courier......Quite a few relos fell in love with it ;)