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Salted Caramel Cupcakes

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Sweet. Salty. Delicious.

Birthdays are a great reason to bake and I always use these times to try new things. The GREAT thing about this is, my neighbors know that I love to bake so I use them as my ‘guinea pigs’ so instead of buying gifts for birthdays, I send a sweet treat their way. . . BUT I want the criticism in return.

This birthday I made Salted Caramel Cupcakes.  YUMMY ! The best thing about these cupcakes is that they are semi-home made :)

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Cupcake Ingredients

1 box of yellow golden butter cake mix

3 eggs

1/2 cup of butter – melted

1 cup of caramel machiatto creamer

Icing Ingredients

1 8oz box of cream cheese – softened

1/2 cup of butter – softened

1 cup of caramel

7-8 cups of sifted powdered sugar

Additions:

Caramel

Sea Salt – course

Chopped Walnuts

Directions for cupcakes:

–Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with cupcake liners.

–In a large bowl, using a mixer, combine cake mix, eggs, butter and creamer for 1 minute. Scrap the side of bowls and continue to mix on medium for 1 minute.

– Scoop even amounts of batter into lined muffin tin and bake 18-20 minutes.

–Let cupcakes cool on baking rack.

Directions for Icing:

–Place the softened butter in bowl and blend softly. Add cream cheese and mix until smooth.

–Add caramel until fully incorporated.

–Slowly add in the powdered sugar until thickened. Turn mixer on medium and beat for 1-2 minutes until icing becomes fluffy.

–Pipe icing onto cooled cupcakes, drizzle caramel, sprinkle a little salt and add chopped walnuts.

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My Thoughts

I used homemade caramel ( Will post recipe another time), but store bought will be just as delicious !

My cupcakes baked for 19 minutes exact and were perfect.

I didn’t have the patience to sift all 7 cups of sugar.

I added the chopped walnuts. They work !

Definitely on the ‘make again’  list !

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Bake Away !!!

Such a sweet FAILURE

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What would a blog be without the good, the BAD and the UGLY… So for the past couple post I have been giving you  these new recipes that we have tried in our house. Tonight we decided to grab a quick and very early dinner since I get off work earlier on Tuesdays. Eating dinner to early can result in a little hunger before bed time. I knew it was going to happen. We both were craving something sweet and we did not have much around the house to snack healthy. Of course, Pinterest to the rescue (maybe) again ! I remembered awhile back that I pinned a recipe for only TWO cupcakes instead of 2 dozen :) I figured I would have all the ingredients, especially for only two cupcakes.

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You can get to the recipe by click here !

The cupcakes came out looking really good. They were peaked and felt good to the touch. As far as the icing goes, I didn’t really have all the stuff to make it. I just through some cream cheese, peanut butter, confectioners sugar and some milk together until I got the right consistency. I love cream cheese and peanut butter so I was satisfied.

 

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I was really excited that we were going to be able to satisfy our sweet tooth with out having to bake a bajillion cupcakes or having to leave the house. The look of the cupcakes were VERY deceiving. They were H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E. The look and sound that came from Don I knew they were not edible. I tore the bottom off of my cupcake to taste it without icing and I could not even chew it before it came out of my mouth. Something was wrong. Don said it was very eggy. It even smelled eggy. I followed the recipe exactly . Oh well, calories well saved here. Atleast the icing tasted good :0)

 

CUPCAKE FAILURE! I will stick to baking 2 dozen instead of 2 !

Cinnamon Toast Crunch CUPCAKES…

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Oh yes I did…. I pulled out the inner fat kid and made some delicious cupcakes. Of course this recipe was hidden among my other 174 pinterest food pins. What can I say, I truly love to cook and bake anything. It was my neighbors birthday this week, since she has been on vacation we have not been able to celebrate. When she gets home she will have some fun, crunchy, sweet cupcakes waiting on her !

Source: bsinthekitchen.com via Kimberly on Pinterest

I really did not stick with the recipe connected to the pinned photo above. Here is the {Semi-Homemade} recipe I used. They cupcakes came out so moist and PERFECT

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cupcakes. . .

Cinnamon Cupcake :

3 Eggs
1/3 Cup oil ( I used canola oil )
3/4 Cup Buttermilk
1Teasoon Vanilla Extract
3/4 Cup Sour Cream
Vanilla Cake Mix
1 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
 

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Buttercream Icing:

8 oz cream cheese, Softened
1/2 Cup butter, Softened ( I used salted )
1 Teaspoon vanilla
3 Cups powdered sugar
2/3 Cup Cinnamon Toast Crunch Powder
    - crush cinnamon toast crunch cereal in a bag or food processor. Sift out 2/3 cup )
 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, line muffin pans with cupcake liners.

In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil, buttermilk, and vanilla. Mix in sour cream.

Add cake mix and cinnamon into the wet ingredients, mix until smooth.

Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-18 minutes. I baked at 17 minutes and they came out perfect after they cooled.

For the icing: beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Adding powdered cereal. Add vanilla and powederd sugar. If your consistency becomes to thick, use milk to thin out to your liking.

Pipe onto cupcakes as desired. Top with cereal square.

ENJOY !!!!

 
 


 

Sweet Sweeeeeet Birthdays

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Today is Don’s 27th birthday! He isn’t crazy about throwing birthday parties or going all out, however, we went to purchase bikes for his birthday present and rode them home. I was pretty excited about that. It something we have been talking about the day we moved into our new house. We have this long trail we can ride less than half a mile away from our home. YIPEE!!! ( more exercise )

For his birthday, I tried to make cup cakes that involve his two favorite sweets: Chocolate and Peanut Butter! I swear every time I turn around the kid is dipping dove choclate into peanut butter. I always think to myself why doesn’t he save the time and the mess by purchasing REESES CUPS..duh right?

I found the PERFECT recipe: Peanut Butter Brownie Buckeye Cupcakes !!!

They are easy..semi-homemade and DELICIOUS :) I did not use the ganache. Honestly, I think the peanut butter icing and the chocolate cake would have over powered it any ways . They were fine for our palate :0)

YUMMMMMMMMY ! Its a MUST TRY recipe ! Image