Black Forest Cupcakes

Hey there guys! I made Black Forest Cupcakes for my friend for her birthday. These cupcakes are based off the Black Forest Cakes that people make that have cherry filling and a chocoalte cake that also has whipped cream instead of frosting. These were a lot of fun to make as I had to actually cut open the cupcakes in order to put the cherry filling inside.

As you can see you can take a sharp knife and cut a circle in the top of the cupcake at an angle all the way around. Take off the top and then fill, cut the bottom piece of cake off the part you removed; this is so that you can plug it back up.



She was so happy with them! I actually think they look pretty cute. Since I did not have the cocoa powder or brown sugar needed to make the chocolate cupcakes from scratch, you can make box mix taste even more awesome with these simple tips, as learn from the book Hello, Cupcake!

-replace the amount of water on the box with 1 cup of buttermilk.

-use the same amount of oil as on the box.

- replace the number of eggs with 4 eggs.

Bake as you normally would and when you try them you will defiantely taste the difference!

Mixed Berry Muffins

So everyone has like blueberry muffins so why no try mixed berry muffins. I had run out of the paper liners for the cupcakes so I used left over ice cream cones. The cones tasted good with or without the ice cream :)

Putting the ice cream cones in the spots where the muffins should have been made it easier to keep them standing up in the oven. I highly suggest you do that too. The recipe I used is the same one i use for blueberry muffins except i substitute the blueberries for some frozen mixed berries. The juices of the berrie are what give the muffins their nice purplish/pink color :)

1/2 cupe of butter
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/4 cups of white sugar
2 eggs
milk ( I add as much as I think it takes to make the mix look right. I find most recipes call for 1/2 cup but that never is enough)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup of defrosted mixed berries.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
This is where I do everything differently and just combine everything into one bowl. I still fluff the butter but everything else never goes in different bowls or whatever so just put everthing together.
Beat until combined.
Stir in mixed berries.
Fill muffins pan and bake for 25-30 minutes.

Cornbread

Since I have to get rid of my buttermilk before it expires, I went to try cornbread from the recipe here. Although it has been reviewed over 1000 times and it still has a 5 star rating, this wasn't exactly the cornbread taste i was going for. Perhaps I should have looked for corn muffins instead of cornbread, 'cause I do like the ones from Famous Dave's.

I thought this picture looked nice xD

It ended up breaking when I took it out of the pan... probably because I had forgot to grease it xD

Pancake Muffins!

Hey everbody! I got a recipe from http://www.bakerella.com/ for mini pacake muffins! Of course though I have no mini muffin pans so I figured to make them into the bigger muffins.



Although I totally forgot to double the amount since they are supposed to be mini, so my muffins of regular size weren't that big nor did I get a lot of them.

Also, do NOT use the paper! I didn't think about it but the muffins are a bit too sticky to put the paper on and when you take the paper off you just end up messing up the whole bottom of the muffin. They still taste delicious, but just a word of caution :) From the website, the recipe is as follows:

Mini Maple Chocolate Chip Pancake Muffins

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 egg
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar in a medium bowl. Sift together with a wire whisk.
In another bowl, stir buttermilk, egg, maple syrup and melted butter until just combined.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until combined.
Stir in chocolate chips. Reserve a few chips to sprinkle on the tops.
Bake for 8-9 minutes.
Makes 24 mini pancake muffins.

Sweet payback.

Hello again bloggers and followers,Yum Yum's here. So lets get this kicked off. As you can see from the tittle its payback! yea not the, Im going to murder you kind.The here's something back ,thanks for doing _______ for me kind. The payback is for my good buddy Nommie :)

Well this actually looks very nasty. I bet you cannot guess what im making from this picture....so todays recipe is called "Easy Strawberry cookies"


You can sort of see it now(meaning all the pink-ness) but this is super easy all you need is cake mix and some other things.


How can you not look at this and say mmmmm.They are super easy so even if this is your 1st time baking or what you can make these.

Recipe
-2eggs
-2/3 veg. shortening
-1 box of strawberry cake mix( you can sub other flavors im sure)
-1/2 cup coconut flakes
-1/2 cup nuts of your choosing (optional)
-1/4 tsp coconut extract
-1/4 tsp vanilla extract


*preheat oven to 350
*combine eggs and shortening in a bowl(it doesn't really combine all that awesome, so if you look at the 1st pic thats how it should look before you continue)
*Add 1/2 of the cake mix and blend well,than add the rest of the mix,vanilla and coconut extract.
*when blended add the flakes and mix with clean,dry hands.(you would add the nuts too if you are adding them)
*With a spoon scoop out some dough and roll into balls than place on cookie sheet described below.(the dough is very oily so make sure your hands are dry when touchy the dough)
*bake on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper,and spray lightly with butter flavor cooking spray,for 8-10 minutes.(mine took 15 minutes so watch it carefully)
*let cool and firm up than enjoy :)

Flour in THEE house!!!

Sooo Yum Yum's here! HELLO WORLD! Okay now to the topic at hand,cookies! Yes cookies. I don't know what woman doesn't have a craving for chocolate sometime every month. Well I don't really like to eat chocolate like water,but I was wanting some chocolate overload this time. Hmmm okay sounds fair enough....walk over to cupboard....OH! theres a problem....NO FLOUR!!! WHAT?! how can there be no flour :( Well I told my mom to get some asap,Because I wanted to make some chocolate cookies!


Well as you can see cookie dough was started,meaning pshh my mom only needed to hear once that I was making Chocolate Cookies. So here is just the wet stuff before the flour and whatnot.



As you lovely bakers can see I have a hand electric mixer. If you have one do not be shy,it works a lot when making yummy's. Well to a certain point anyway ,with cookie dough.


Mmmmmm looks good don't it? Yes it looks super good already...well wait till they are baked! Yes you guys can see now its double chocolate cookies. Best thing on earth let me just say. I looked up multiple recipes for these cookies and found the best one,but the website is down right now so I will put the recipe in .I did look at all reviews though and changed somethings to it. Like the sugar. Recipe calls for 1-1/2 cups of white sugar. Well I did 1 cup white and 1/2 cup of light brown sugar(lightly packed).


WOOO they are done!Well here a closer pic (kind of blurry,sorry my camera kind of sucks )......

Yes,Mmmm looks too good! Well let me just say I think the site needs to change the name of them cookies. They were more like brownies! OMG very good and like an explosion of chocolate in every bite! Quote from my mom "I don't want them,but at the same time I cant stop myself from picking up another one..." If thats not enough for you guys make them and go to heaven .

Recipe:
1 cup butter,soften'd
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar(lightly packed)
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2/3 Cocoa powder
2 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips

*Preheat oven to 350
*In large bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
*Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the butter mixture until well blended.
*Mix in the chocolate chips.
*Using a table spoon scoop cookie dough and roll into ball with hands and place on a cookies sheet lined with parchment paper.
*Bake for 8-10 minutes (now you must watch it after this time, I took mine out after 8 minutes and it still wans't done,it took up to 15 for mine to be just right)
let cook and enjoy :)

Nommie's Mother's Day!

So this is what I made for my mom.

Banana Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter frosting! The Peanut Butter Frosting was left over from my boyfriend's cake which I had made the day before. The Cupcake part is from Hello Cupcake! I decided to test out their recieps in the back and try to make box mix delicious and boy was this recipe GREAT! I am sooo serious it was sooo good. I had to go out and buy buttermilk but I'm sure that that helped make them deeeelicious!

The recipe from Hello Cupcake to make your box mix yummy goes as follows:

Banana Chocolate Cupcakes

1 box devil's food cake mix

1 cup mashed bananas (about 3 medium)
1 cup buttermilk (in place of the water called for on the box)

vegetable oil (the amount on the box)

4 large eggs (in place of the number called for on the box)

and then you just mix it like you normally would! :)