Tis’ the season for Christmas Trees & Christmas Decorating! I spent a good part of my day yesterday buying Christmas Tree decorations, so in honor of this lovely season I thought I would find some Christmas Tree Cupcakes. They are from none other than Martha Stewart.
Enjoy!
As we all know Tree Decorating time is coming near so pull out all your ornaments and maybe purchase some new shiny ones for yourself. This is a great Ornament for any and all cupcake lovers. I found it at Sur la table!
My roommates birthday was today and I asked her what kind of cupcakes she wanted for her birthday and she said, ” Cheesecake!!” and I said, “I can make that happen!” … So I made my famous cheesecake into mini cakes!
Grocery List
From your Cupboards
And GO!
Heat the oven to 325 degrees, find yourself 12 cupcake liners and place them into a cupcake pan! Take vanilla wafer and put one in the bottom of each liner. And then add a sprinkle of chocolate chips on top of the wafer. In a bowl add the cream cheese, 2 eggs, 2/3 cup of sugar and 3 tablespoons lemon juice. Mix until smooth and there are no lumps. Disperse evenly into the cupcake liners. Place a spoonful of raspberry jam on-top of each of the cheesecakes and then add another sprinkle of the chocolate chips as well. Place in oven for about 30-35 minutes. After they are done cooking leave in cupcake pan until they have cooled all the way through and then place in fridge over night.
And ENJOY!
I brought them to work for my roomie and for everyone to enjoy and the went over very well. One of my co-workers said it was very satisfying.
Here is a photo!
As I was picking up the mail yesterday I found one of my Favorite Catalogs in my mail box, The Lakeside Collection . I love this catalog but I loved this one even more. The whole front cover is advertising all cupcake items!
This is what the cover looks like;
The 2 items that are on the front cover are these 2 items …
AND
These are great gifts for all the aspiring cupcake bakers both young and old out there!
Enjoy!
I am always trying to find new and different jewlery and home goods as well and i stumbled upon this love website called ShanaLogic . After I found some cure camera earrings I said to myself , “Mhhh, they MUST have cupcake stuff!” So I did a Cupcake Search on the site and found LOTS of inspring cupcake things. These are a few of my favorites …
Wear a cupcake around your neck with this Happy Cupcake Necklace
Check out your sweet little self with this Cupcake Pocket Mirror
Wear your cupcake on your sleeve, or on your shirt with this Cupcake Shirt (they also have it in Plus Size)
I think i know what i am doing with my Christmas Bonus! :-)
One of my friends sent this to me Via email …
5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug (MicroSafe)
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well…
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again..
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
I was thinking you could disperse this into a few smaller teacup mugs and make sort of a cupcake! I don’t think you would have to microwave it for 3 minutes, but this is something you would have to test out. Unfortunately we don’t have a microwave as my place so i cant experiment! But someday I will!!
This weekend my best friend Heidi and I made some yummy cupcakes! I wasn’t too sure about what kind to make, but my mom spoke up and said she wanted Pineapple Coconut Cupcakes and Mom’s always get what they want. :-)
Off to the store Heidi and I went to get the ingredients …
And you can grab these items from your fridge and cupboards at home…
And GO …
Drain the crushed pineapple and save the juice.
Follow the directions on the box of cake mix … substitute the water for pineapple juice (if you don’t have enough juice, just use as much juice as you have and use water for the rest).
Once you have filled the cupcake liners with the batter spoon crushed pineapple into each liner on top of the batter, make sure you start off with a little at a time because you want to be able to get it into all of the cupcakes. If you have more after all are filled disperse to your hearts content into the rest of the liners. ( Psst … you can also save some to throw into the frosting)
Throw em’ in the oven and bake according to box.
While those are cooking you can go ahead and start on the frosting. Make sure that the butter is at room temperature (if you take it right from the fridge you will have a hard time mixing the frosting).
Mix together one 8 ounce package of cold cream cheese , 5 tablespoons butter and 2 teaspoons of vanilla until light and fluffy. Gradually add 2 cups sifted confectioners sugar.
Once you have mixed this all together gently fold in about 3/4’s of a cup of Coconut! (if you want to add crushed pineapple in you can do it at this time)
Once the cupcakes have come out of the oven and have cooled all the way through you can go ahead frost and ENJOY!
My family LOVED these cupcakes! They gave em’ and A+!
Here are a few photographs (sorry they aren’t the best, they were from a camera phone)!
(I am the one on the Left)
My best friends baby girl, Elodie recently turned a year old and being the cupcake queen that I am I bought her Cupcake Clothes!
I don’t get to see her much so when they came to visit me her mom dressed her up in the clothes that I bought her.
Here are a few pictures of this precious little girl & her cute clothes!
You can get these Cupcake Jeans at Gymboree!
And the Cupcake Shirt at Kohl’s!
<3
I found this cute and innovative video about this little cupcake who learns a lot in a matter of a few days. A cupcake with Dreams!
It is by freelance artist Kristen Lepore. Check out her other work. You can also check out her Blog. Enjoy!
I was searching the internet for some interesting Cupcake things and I came across this cute & hilarious video of a dog being trained and they are using cupcakes.
Look at his EYES … crazy! Hope you enjoyed this!
Hello all my favorite cupcake goers! I had a creative spark this weekend and came up with a few things. If you guys could take a look at them and let me know what you think and if it is something that you would purchase. I am thinking about putting them on Etsy. Here are pictures … thanks for the feedback ahead of time!!
I was just browsing one of my new favorite website ModCloth and I found this wonderous find!
Keep warm this season with the Sweet Nothings Scarf!
Enjoy!
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Now playing: Virginia Coalition – Lonley Cowboy
via FoxyTunes
Did you ever think that you would see Cupcakes at a Taco Bell? Well if you live in certain parts of California you may be able to taste test them. Click HERE to read more about Taco Bell Cupcakes and other items that they are also testing!
They don’t look too yummy and if you read the article, they didn’t get the best review! If anyone has tried them let us know!
I just wanted to post real quick about the amazing Cupcake Costume on the Ellen Degeneres Show this Morning! It definitly looked like she jumped in an Extra Extra Extra Large foil cupcake wrapper! She was dancing and everything in it. Kellie Pickler who was on the show even mentioned something about how cute it was. I tried finding a picture of it online but i couldnt :-(
But i just wanted to share it with you all!
****UPDATE****
Thanks to our lovely reader we have found a picture of the cupcake. It is just a screen shot so it isnt the best picture in the world but here it is.
Thanks Erika!!!!
I will give all my thanks to my friend Laura for sending me this link about Irish Cupcakes. I spent three weeks in Ireland and I am sure if I were to taste these cupcakes it would bring me right back to the lovely feeling I had while I was there. These Guinness and Bailey’s Cupcakes came from the website Irish Central. Click HERE for the recipe!
I think that we all have that ONE dessert that someone in your family was famous for making! I certaintly do! My Nana always use to make a cake for our birthdays and other holidays. Our birthday would always roll around and she would always ask, ” What kind of cake do you want?’ We had 2 choices, Chocolate Cake or Banana Cake, both homemade. Most people ALWAYS chose the the Chocolate cake. And she would always put it on this super special Birthday Plate.
As the days go on she is unable to make this cake . So my family and I have taken upon ourselves to try and replicate this delcious treat.For some reason most people can not make it right. My mother and brother have successfully made it and now it is my turn. So being the cupcake geek I am put a little twist on them … cupcake style! Here is a quick photo adventure of my cooking venture …
I used a simple buttercream chocolate frosting. They were YUMMMY! If anyone wants the recipe, reply to this with your email and I can send it to you!
So i just recently got some new ink, a cupcake to be exact. I got it done by Albie Rock at White Mountain Tattoo in North Conway NH. I made cupcakes for the Tattoo peeps so they could tattoo that cupcake on me.
Albie did a GREAT job … he had alot of fun doing it and he even thanked me for letting him do such a fun tattoo. And like me he is an avid blogger so he blogs every day and he called me a “Cute as a Cupcake Tatster”in his blog, ahhh i love it! So here is the new love of my life … try not to drool over it because it does look that tasty!
I love that everyone knows I am obsessed with Cupcakes because they send me neat little finds such as this one from Shirt.Woot!
They have a different shirt everyday and this was todays! It is just in time for Halloween?
Looking to buy a new winter hat? Want something different, not just the same old wool head warmer … Well dress in tasty style with this lovely Cupcake Beanie!
It comes in 2 flavors … Strawberry & Vanilla!
Being the cupcake baker that I am I LOVE the Witon Website and I also follow them on Facebook and todays post was great. It is these Circle of Sorcery Cake and Cupcakes.
Wilton does a great job of telling you exactly what you need and exactly how to do it.
This would be a lovely addition to any Halloween Celebration!
Want to send some extra sweet flair along with your mail? If the answer is yes than I have just the thing for you …. Cupcake Return Labels! All of these were found at the Tiny Prints Website.
Sweet Cupcakes (they also have this one in Blue)
They have tons of matching stationary such as invitations, stickers, thank you cards, etc..
Enjoy!
These are some things I wish that I had when I was a child. I will make sure that the day I have kids these will be on the Registry!
I like this Cupcake Set because you can ‘decorate’ them yourselves! Lovely …
This Cupcake Set is great as well …
My cousin is currently in active labor so as a tribute to her and my new lil cousin who should be entering this lovely world soon I am doing a tribute to kids clothes!
Kind of makes me want to have a baby so i can dress em’ all up!
One million cupcakes you say … Little Debbie is giving away lots of cupcakes and other prizes. If you go to the Little Debbie website you can print out a coupon for free cupcakes! Yep I said it, FREE CUPCAKES!
You can also join the Little Debbie Facebook Page and become a fan and get all the updates about Little Debbie Cupcakes!
Little debbie is also giving away other prizes. One of the other prizes they are giving away is this lovely ….. CAR!
There are only 4 of these cars made. It looks Yummy! I wonder if they have a cupcake scented car air freshener to go with it?
One of the other items they are giving away is a free Years Supply of Cupcakes! What more could one ask for?
I think I may have to for test drive some little debbie cupcakes today! :-)
What happens is you give a cat a cupcake? I don’t know and if you dont know you can read what will happen in the book by Laura Numeroff, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
She also wrote If You Give a Moose a Muffin (almost like a cupcake) & If You Give a Pig and Pancake … and the one that I have read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
All this talk of muffin, cookies and pancakes is making me hungry!
