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! :)

Congrats Erik!!!

A Good friend of mine passed his PE test

(Professional Engineer test)

Him and his wife were having a Congratulations party and I REALLY wanted to make them cupcakes. So, we came up with Red Velvet cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing.

Naturally this was my first time making this kind of cupcake and icing, and I welcomed the challenge! 

 Brilliant Red!

Cream Cheese

 Red Sprinkles!

Yummy Yummy In my Tummy!



Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients

v  2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened

v  1/2 cup butter, softened

v  2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

v  1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1.    In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until creamy.

2.     Mix in the vanilla, then gradually stir in the confectioners' sugar.

3.     Store in the refrigerator after use.