Liam's Cupcake

Since my sister doesnt live here, she made this sweet cupcake to celebrate Liam :) Now tell me that is not the cutest thing you've ever seen!!!

I {HEART} Baking

If you love cookie dough and you love cupcake this is perfect for you :)

Today I baked Double Chocolate Chunk Vanilla Cupcakes, just writing the name makes me want to go grab another one, yum!

It is just your favorite cupcake and cookie recipe mix together, could there be anything better in the world? NOPE!

First you need to make some cookie dough, if you are scared about eating raw eggs use this eggless recipe, if like me you like to lick your bowl clean everytime you bake and really couldnt care less about salmonella just to have that wonderful taste in your mouth :) follow this one for Double Chocolate Chunk cookies (or your regular favorite one).

Make the dough into balls and freeze them (eat a few before you do that).

Now make vanilla cupcakes, and put the frozen cookie dough balls on top before baking, no need to push them down.

Bake the regular time your cupcake recipe requires.

ENJOY!!

I {HEART} Cooking and EASTER!!

Caution: The following post has some serious cuteness overload, continue reading under your own risk!!

I have a new addiction and is so hard to stop!!! is the CUPCAKES, those tiny cute little things and I want to make them EVERY single day!
I said to myself, "no more until you take the test!", but I cant stop. I just HAD to make the easter ones ;p

This are really special to me and I hope you like and enjoy them as much as I did making and taking a gazillion pictures of them!!
Since is Easter they had to be really special! So this are Surprise Easter Cupcakes with a special treat inside!

So to join me in my addiction do the following:

You can make your favorite cupcake recipe, I did this one and they came out really good.

1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
3 large eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract.
In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Add the flour mixture to the first one, and finish with the milk, until everything is well incorporated.
Evenly fill the muffin cups with the batter and bake for about 25 minutes. Remove from oven and allow them to cool. Once the cupcakes have completely cooled we move on to the next part.

I told you this were Surprise Easter Cupcakes, but why??... Well, because they have a surprise filling inside :) YUMMY!!!

I used Dulce de Leche, but you can use any filling you want, mine was an argetinian one, but you can make yours at home, just click here to see a recipe.

And to fill them just scope out a cone shape from the top of your cupcake.

See the cone shape? to get that exact shape just insert the knife in the position of the second pic and go round.

Fill your cupcake and place the top back (you may need to cut the end of the cone piece so that you can get more filling inside).

Now is time to get some frosting on these babies :) and what better than a rich, colorful Butter Cream Frosting!!

1 cup (2 sticks) butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1b. 10X powdered sugar

1-3 teaspoons milk

Cream softened butter and vanilla until smooth. Add sugar gradually.
Add a teaspoon of milk at a time and beat until you get the right texture.
Then, just use icing colors to tint the frosting the color you need.

And here comes the best part, the part we've all been waiting for, DECORATE!

Get all sorts of candies, whatever you can think that will help you.

I used Hershey's Kissables, tiny starry sprinkles, Trident Splash Gum, M&M's, Gumdrops and Starburst.

I will tell you what I did for each cupcake.

First my favorite one ;) BABY CHICKS!

For this I used:

Yellow buttercream frosting for the body, for the beaks in some I used orange Hershey's Kissables and for others orange Starburst (just put them on the microwave for 10 seconds and they will be soft enough for you to shape them), for the eyes either chocolate buttercream frosting or brown M&M's and for their feets orange starry sprinkles or Starbursts.

Here are the Pink Fluffy Bunnies :)

Pink buttercream frosting for the body, for the eyes some are starry blue sprinkles, some chocolate buttercream and some blue M&M's or Hershey's Kissables (the one with the blue M&M has a dot of white frosting; the ears pink gumdrops and pink Startburst; the nose brown M&M's, red Hershey's Kissable and M&M's; the bunny teeth are Tridents gum and the whiskers are chocolate buttercream frosting.

Last but not least Easter Eggs!

Green buttercream frosting for the grass, starry sprinkles for the field flowers, eggs made out of Startburst or M&M's and a nest out of chocolate frosting.

One is a decorated Easter egg, just have fun with this one and decorate how ever you like!! I used white, pink and green buttercream frosting, Hershey's Kissables and starry sprinkles.

Arent these the cutest little things? And I bet you can make them even prettier! Trust me if I did you can :)

ENJOY THEM!!! and Happy Easter!