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Martha Stewart Chocolate Cupcakes

Tonight I made a batch of Chocolate Cupcakes! I had to change the Icing Recipe a little bit.

Cupcake Receipe from Martha Stewart's website

Makes 12

• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• Sprinkles (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 12-cup standard muffin tin with paper liners.
2. Into a medium bowl, sift together cocoa, flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each, then beat in vanilla. With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture in two batches, alternating with sour cream and beginning and ending with flour.
3. Pour batter into cups, filling each 3/4 full. Bake until a toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
4. Cool in pan 5 minutes; transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, then spread with Easy White Icing using a table knife or small offset spatula. Decorate with sprinkles, if desired.

Martha Stewart Icing Receipe with a few changes

Makes 3 1/2 cups, enough for 12 standard cupcakes

• 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
• 1 pound (3 2/3 cups) confectioners' sugar
• 1 to 2 tablespoons milk, (optional) - I did not use milk
• I added Almond and Vanilla extract to the icing
  

Directions

1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter until smooth.
2. Gradually add confectioners’ sugar; beat until smooth. If too thick to spread, beat in 1 to 2 tablespoons milk.

Tonight was also the first time I used my decorating bags and my Martha Stewart cupcake liners! Did I have fun!

The cupcakes are awesome, the icing, well I should have used just a tad less of the Almond extract.

Cupcake Liners - Too Cute!

Martha Stewart Cupcake liners.  I think I will order these and try them out.  Much better than the boring liners I get from the Supermarket.  Check them out here!

Cookie & Cream Cupcakes (Gail Wegman)

Cookie & Cream Cupcakes

My Cookie & Cream Cupcakes came out ok. I must admit, my cupcakes come out better when I use recipes from blogs on the internet. This is my third time making cupcakes from the Cupcake Galore Book by Gail Wegman.

The Problem: I think I should have used more sugar than what the recipe calls for and I think I should have used more white chocolate in the Icing. My taste tester says that the cupcakes taste really good.

Cupcaking Again!

Instead of making Sweet Potato Pie this Thanksgiving, I made Sweet Potato Casserole Cupcakes. I got the recipe from The Cupcake Project Blog
Everyone loved them! I am so happy! My friends that won't eat sweet potato pie, ate these cupcakes! They don't look so pretty, but boy did they taste yummy!

Apple Pie Cupcakes

I attempted to make the Apple Pie Cupcakes from the Alpineberry blog.
















Here are the apples cooking in a Fry Pan with sugar and butter. After this they have to sit and cool.

Here they are waiting to go into the oven. As you can see the apples that were cooking in the pan are all cooked up on top of the cupcake. When they are done, the apple is like a filling in the cupcake.





Finished Cupcakes

UPDATE!
I took these to work, and everyone loved them. They were so surprised about the real apples in the middle of the cupcake! ;-)

Flower Away

Flower Away
Originally uploaded by klip32.

Three GingerBread Cupcakes

Yesterday we made The Three Gingerbread Cupcakes from the Gail Wegman cookbook! WOW WOW WOW, they are sooooo yummy. I am going to share them with my neighbors.




Here they are all dressed up!

Three GingerBread Cupcakes

Today we made The Three Gingerbread Cupcakes from the Gail Wegman cookbook! WOW WOW WOW, they are sooooo yummy. I am going to share them with my neighbors.




Here they are all dressed up!

The Rum Brownie

Last Night I made Chocolate Rum Brownies with Chocolate Rum Buttercream. I found the recipe HERE! They came out great, and that is coming from other people. It was really easy to make, and two things I made sure to do was to use unsalted butter and not to over mix. I used Captain Morgan Rum, I think the brownie could have taken a little more rum. Also the brownie was very moist!!!

Cupcakes all dressed up

Cupcakes all dressed up
Originally uploaded by Photo Day.

Creme Brulee Cupcakes, my first attempt at making cupcakes from scratch! They came out so so. They were too tough, more like bread than cake.