Happy 6th Birthday Hailey Bug!!

I finally got my camera back from my Niece's 6th Birthday party. I've been dieing to post my pictures for a very long week!

I made my 6yr old Niece rainbow cupcakes with; white cake mix and lots of fun food coloring. To top off the cupcakes I made a sweet buttercream.

Here are the steps I took to make these lovely Cupcakes!

1. Colors! Pick out the colors you want for your cupcakes. I only did four colors; Red, Orange, Blue, and Purple. When mixing the colors use the 2 to 3 ratios. Example if you are making Purple- 2 drops of Blue and 3 drops of Red.

2. Layering- With this pan I started with Red. Start your rainbow however you like, just dab a little of the batter into the cupcake liners.

3. Continue dabbing spoonfuls of batter into cupcake liners until all colors have been used.

4. Time to Bake- After using all of your colors, pop the cupcake pan into oven and cook for 18-20 minutes.

First Pan of Cupcakes.

Second pan of Cupcakes.



And they are done and ready to eat!

Somewhere over the Rainbow

So my niece is having her Birthday party this Sunday and I've been planning her cupcakes for over a month now.

And to be honest I can't wait any longer to share what I want to do.

I found a website that gave step by step on how to make rainbow cupcakes.

Rainbow Cupcakes

And it looks like a lot of fun to do!

Not only is the cupcake going to be rainbow, but so is the icing!! Oh, yeah you read right.... the icing RAINBOW!

Rainbow Icing

Can't wait to post my pictures of my very own Rainbow cupcakes with Rainbow icing!

All You Need is Cupcakes

There are a few things a Cupcake girl needs to have.

And here they are:

1. Batter Babies



Seriously, what a great invention for a cupcake baker! You want two flavor? Oh no problem, I'll just use my batter babies to give you one side of chocolate and one side peanut butter. Not only can you separate flavors, but you can separate colors, pink and blue, purple and green, etc it's up to you!

2.Cupcake Shoes

Yes Please!

3.Cupcake T-Shirt

I mean, if you have cupcake shoes you have to have a cupcake shirt!

4. Baker's Necklace

Really, how can you pass this up?!

5. Cupcake Coin Purse

Too Cute and Sweet!

And of course in order to buy all this wonderful cupcake stuff you need to save your money with this!

Cupcake Bank

Thin Mint Wonder

My Mother in Law was having a game night with some of her friends and wanted me to make some cupcakes. The only thing she asked was for them to be St. Patrick's Dayish.

I had seen this recipe before and had been dying to make it. I found a blog {realmomkitchen.com} that had this thin mint recipe on it and had to try it out and thought that my Mother in law would love it.

Yes that's a chocolate cupcake with green mint buttercream icing  topped with none other than crumbled thin mints and a little slice of a thin mint cookie.

All ready to bake!

Bird's eye view on the cupcakes.



Close up!

Hope you enjoyed!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I love St. Patrick's Day and what better way to celebrate it, than with a Guinness Cupcake with cream cheese icing.

I don't think I need to say much about this picture..... :)

Guinness cupcake batter.

The great thing about this recipe is the left over Guinness.

Tried a new recipe for the cream cheese icing and I like it!

I think the cupcake says it all!!

If you are wanting to order any cupcakes for St. Patty's Day email me treatyourselfcupcakes@gmail.com

Ready for Spring!

I finally got around to making my strawberry cupcakes with kiwi icing and they are delicious!

I was kind of scared to make kiwi icing, but it does taste wonderful with a strawberry cupcake.

All ready to bake with all my ingredients and supplies.

Strawberry batter

Ready to be iced..

Cream Cheese Icing!!!

Cupcakes topped with cream cheese, pink sprinkles, and half a slice of kiwi.

 

Ready to Eat!!!

Red Velvet Cupcakes

I had a friend at work that wanted me to make her some red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing. I can not pass up baking, so I kindly said "OK!"

I know I've already posted about  red velvet cupcakes, but this time instead of using red coloring gel I used food coloring. The food coloring didn't give off much of a red color as I hoped, but if you don't mind neither do I.

I also used half cake flour and half all purpose flour, which made the cupcakes very fluffy and moist.

I guess cake flour isn't bad after all! :)

Cherries All Around!

I was wanting to make some cupcakes, but knew I had to clean the house before I could... Kind of like when you were a kid and had to do your homework before you could go play at a friend's house.

Since I made Strawberry cupcake yesterday I wanted to make another fruit cupcake. 

CHERRY was the winner (next will be blueberries or kiwi).

So I made Cherry Cupcakes with Cherry/Chocolate Icing. 

I've also found out from making many cupcakes, that I do NOT like cake flour. It doesn't change the taste of the cupcakes, just how they look. Next time no cake flour!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day My Friends!

My Sister, Becky called me up one day last week and wanted my to make Valentine's Day cupcakes for her daughter's Valentine's Day Party. She didn't want Chocolate, which was fine with me because I had been wanting to make strawberry cupcakes for some time now.

I did my research and found "The One" I like to combine recipes that I find to make them more of my own. 

I used fresh strawberries for the cupcakes and made strawberry cream cheese icing. 

Strawberry batter

Strawberry Cream Cheese

Icing

Strawberry cupcakes baked and ready for icing.

I was scared at first bc of the color, but they were NOT burnt!

Yummy!!!

Happy Birthday Kristen!!

I love making cupcakes, but it's my favorite when I'm making birthday cupcakes!

A friend my mine wanted me to make her chocolate cupcakes with cherry icing, and I did just that!

Happy Birthday!!!

Treat Yourself Cupcakes: Oh Glorious Cupcakes!

Treat Yourself Cupcakes: Oh Glorious Cupcakes!: "Glorious Indeed! I made some glorious cupcakes for a trivia night. Chocolate cupcakes with cherry AND mint icing! If you are in like mint or..."

Oh Glorious Cupcakes!

Glorious Indeed!

I made some glorious cupcakes for a trivia night. Chocolate cupcakes with cherry AND mint icing! If you are in like mint or cherry you will L-O-V-E it! 

Cherry Icing

• 1 1/2 cups of confectioner's sugar
• 1/4 cup of butter, softened
• 3 tbsp maraschino cherry juice
• 1/2 tsp almond extract

1. Mix the sugar and the butter together
2. Add the cherry juice and almond extract, mix well

Mint Icing

• 4 cups confectioner's sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 tsp mint extract
• 4 tbsp milk
• 2 (1 oz) squares unsweetened chocolate
• 2 tbsp butter

1. Cream 1 1/3 cups of sugar with 1/2 cup butter or margarine, and salt.
2. Blend extract, 2 tbsp milk, and remaining sugar into mix
3. Gradually stir remaining mile into frosting until desired spreading consistency is reached!

Talk About Yummy!!

I have to admit, snow days are probably the best time to have fun with your cupcake experiments!

This cupcake was created after being stuck at home for the third day in a row.

A chocolate/peanut butter cupcake with chocolate/peanut butter/coffee icing.

And yes it taste just as delicious as it sounds. :)

 All Ready to Bake!

{Yum Yum Yum}

 Chocolate/peanut butter/coffee icing!

 Ready to Eat



I would normally give you the recipe for the icing, but this one is going in a top secret file. ;-)