mini lemon cupcakes.

On the way out the door to San Francisco and I realize I have A TON of buttercream frosting left--what to do?! So....I made mini lemon cupcakes and they turned out amazingly! (I'm on a lucky streak!)  Just uploading a couple pictures before I jump in the car!  See you later!

red velvet mini cupcakes.

I have a new obsession with mini cupcakes... and I'm loving it!  For our friend's party my friend Ayries and I decided to bring a sweet treat, mini red velvet cupcakes with buttercream frosting!  

We are both a little different..... I'm very controlled and Ayries is crazy! But we had fun decorating cupcakes for Kyle and his party:)

They were delicious!

three chocolate mini-cupcakes with three ganaches and three butter cream frostings :)

Today Momma found mini chocolate cupcakes in the freezer, PERFECT for experimentation!  I decided on one plan with three variations, a cupcake filled with ganache, topped with ganache, and frosted with a buttercream frosting.  

I chose a standard chocolate cupcake with chocolate ganache and vanilla buttercream, a Mexican Chocolate ganache (ganache with vanilla and cinnamon) with cinnamon/vanilla buttercream, and an espresso ganache with an espresso/vanilla buttercream.  They are bite-sized and beautiful! Yum! 

maple french toast and bacon cupcakes & earl gray cupcakes.

So a friend mentioned to me that I should make breakfast cupcakes and I thought to myself, "wouldn't breakfast cupcakes just be muffins?".  Just my luck, I stumbled across this recipe that proved that there is indeed such thing as a breakfast cupcake!
The cupcake is like one big, soft, round piece of french toast with a maple cream cheese frosting topped with bacon:)

the breakfast cupcakes:                                                                                                              

all purpose flour                                                                                                                     

cake flour                                                                                                                                         

vanilla pudding mix                                                                                                          

baking powder                                                                                                                    

corn starch                                                                                                                       

cinnamon                                                                                                                                        

fresh nutmeg                                                                                                                

salt

butter

brown sugar

sugar

vanilla extract

egg whites

maple syrup

half-and-half

bacon

I was so excited when the cupcakes came out beautifully shaped, light and golden brown!

I was pretty worried about what these strangely concocted cupcakes might taste like but with one bite I was sold!

I paired them with a light earl gray tea mini cupcake that hit the spot! It's fresh lemon earl grey buttercream frosting came out a bit on the watery-side due to the extra lemon juice I added (I love lemons!) but it tasted delicious none-the-less! So good!

cupcake:                                                                                                                      

butter                                                                                                                           

sugar                                                                                                             

eggs                                                                                                                                                  

all purpose flour                                                                                                    

baking powder                                                                                         

salt

milk

earl gray tea leaves

yum :)

-iheartbaking

carrot cake cupcake.

This was a carrot cake recipe that I decided to split up into cupcakes!  With a creamy cream cheese frosting the cupcake was delicious! The cake was light, not soggy, and SO GOOD. Successful first carrot cake :)

lemon roll

This was my first lemon roll!  The roll is made of a light, spongey lemon cake topped with powdered sugar. For experimentation's sake I filled the roll half with cream cheese frosting and half with lemon curd.  Although it was my first time using a double boiler, the lemon curd turned out alright; but it soaked through the cake making it difficult to fold, transport, and thus made the roll less of a success.  Though it was slightly deflated it created a rich, delectable dessert.  Perhaps next time I will try applying both cream cheese frosting as a base layer followed by the lemon curd.

Although the shape of the roll wasn't picturesque, it was delicious and I will definitely be attempting another roll in the near future!