SP00KY Cupcakes

Good Afternoon !
Hope your weekend was wonderful.  Monday, I decided to make my first batch of Halloween cupcakes! I am going to make more this week but I wanted to see how everyone felt about them before I made more.  Everyone enjoyed them!

Here's what I made:

How I created these:

1) My favorite Vanilla Cupcake recipe

2) Added purple food coloring gel

3) Made the cupcakes as directed

4) Let them cool

5) While they're baking, created the sculptable frosting (the purple toppers in picture)

Here is my link to my post on this wonderful sculptable frosting:

http://kateskitchen43.blogspot.com/2013/10/sculptable-frosting-recipe-review.html

6) Frosted the cupcakes with the orange frosting (yes, it's store bought,

I know I'm sorry!)  

Once the sculptable frosting is done, I grabbed a chunk piece by piece flattened it out and used a curvy/flower like cookie cutter.  I did make mine quite thick (will make them thinner next time).  The toppers make the cupcakes much heavier! I didn't think the thickness of the toppers would make them weigh that much! I used black glitter decorative gel to write and draw on the frosting shapes.

7) I added coconut and some candy eyes to some of them to make monster/mummy cupcakes!

8) Get creative.  This was so much fun to do and it was actually very relaxing for me!

Next time:

I will be making my own frosting (not store bought!).  I also will be making the sculptable frosting thinner, meaning thickness wise.  Because of this I will continue to halve the recipe because I had lots of extra this time.  I only made 12 cupcakes!  I would have to experiment with how much I would have to make for a batch of 24. I will continue to use the same vanilla cupcake recipe. If you would like it please comment below!  

Sculptable Frosting [Recipe + Review]

Good Morning!

I hope your weekend was fantastic.  These past two weeks have been pretty low key and boring for me.  I have been battling a bad case of Acute Mononucleosis (short form: mono).  It really kicked my butt.  I've been so stir crazy I decided to sit in the kitchen last night and practice for my halloween cupcakes I'm making soon.  I found a recipe on pinterest quite awhile ago, and I am glad that I pinned it.
You can find the original post here: http://thedecoratedcookie.com/2012/05/guest-post-sculptable-frosting-by-cheryl-of-sew-can-do/

Now, I usually don't have good luck with these type of recipes.  This one was awesome!  I actually halved it because I wasn't actually making any cupcakes to go with it or anything, I just wanted to practice.

This was a delicious frosting recipe!  If you are making it colored (which I did), just add a few drops and kneed the color into the frosting. For the halloween spirit, I dyed mine orange and will be doing an orange and purple batch when I actually make them for the cupcakes. 

After I kneaded the frosting with the orange dye

You can see the softness and consistency here

After you have your desired color, you can start designing and having fun! I used a rolling pin, a butter knife and cookie cutters.  I also have this sparkle gel by Wilton and I drew on them to make various things.  

I made them quite thick. Next time
when they are on the cupcakes they will be thinner.

Cupcake Cones!

Good Afternoon all!
My family is really busy, at all times.  My sister and I are both in school and we both work full time.  Among other obligations it is hard to find good quality family time.  My mom's birthday was this past Saturday, September 28th and we celebrated a few days early.  I decided to make cupcake cones, and here are my results.

My frosting was homemade and was thicker
I had a bit of a hard time drizzling, but I
had fun with it!

I had a little helper (:

Whip up your favorite cupcake mix, and fill up an empty ice cream cone about 2/3's full.  I should have filled a few of my cones up a little bit more.  If they don't come up just above the cone, it's going to be hard to frost.  

I made a few regular cupcakes as well. 

I used an interesting frosting recipe that I found in my mom's cookbook called "Jo's fudge frosting".

Ingredients 

1/4 cup of shortening

1/4 cup of milk 

1 cup of sugar

1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Directions 

Bring the first three ingredients to a boil, add the chocolate chips and remove from heat.  Mix together, and spread.  

This recipe was disastrous.

How it looked: soupy and tasteless

So, I decided to put my own spin on and it and make it something.  I added:

1 tsp of vanilla

1/2 cup of cocoa

Powdered sugar: to taste/to the thickness you want

A splash of milk

It turned out well after adding these ingredients and making it better.  I am still on the lookout for a good chocolate frosting.  Does anyone have any good frosting recipes?  Not icing recipes, just frosting. Please share them with me below I would love it!

Super moist! (Don't put the cupcakes in for as
long as the boxed package says, maybe about three
minutes less! Test it out!)

Momma and Sistaaa! (: