Costco find !

I was at Costco today and found these wonderful cupcake carriers. I actually bought 3 of them , they where $17.00 a piece. Great buy! They came in white, pink and blue. I bought the pink.

Target

Target always has the cutest stuff. I just found all these cute cupcake things in there $1 baskets. I believe the more you surround yourself with the things that are your passion the more likely you are to complete your goals.The buckets would be cute as place settings with pretty shreeded paper and a cupcake on top that has a fondant place card.

Look at these cute ribbons they have cupcakes on them.Wouldn't that be cute wrapped around a single cupcake container for decor?

I also found this cupcake stand it holds a dozen cupcakes. If you had several tables at a party you could put them on each table. If  you didn't want that many cupcakes on each you could do half cupcakes half favors.

Chocolate chocolate cookie dough cupcakes

I get to post my first recipe Yeah !

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough cupcakes

These are for all the cookie dough lovers.


I'll start with the cookie dough recipe. You should be able to get 24 cookie balls from this .






Chocolate chip cookie dough recipe:
1/2 cup +2 tbls all purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 butter
3 1/2 tbls granulated sugar
3 1/2 tbls brown sugar
1 med. egg
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup choc chips (mini or regular)

Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl, flour salt and soda, sift with whisk.
In a mixer bowl put your butter and sugars , mix until smooth.Add your egg and vanilla mix,make sure to scrape down sides. Then add your flour mixture until combined. Stir in choc chips. Freeze these before use , it keeps them from completely baking and stay somewhat doughy.

Chocolate cupcake batter:
2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/4 cups + 2 tbls of unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup (8 oz) sour cream or milk
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup unsalted butter (rm temp)
2 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs (rm temp)
1 1/4 cups strong coffee cooled

Preheat oven to 350 . Line cupcake pans with liners .These cupcakes rise well so you shouldn't have to spray your pan.

Sift together dry ingredients, flour, cocoa, baking powder , soda and salt with a whisk. In a separate bowl combine sour cream and vanilla set aside. Beat butter and sugar together on med. speed until smooth ad eggs one at a time scraping down sides. Alternate the flour and sour cream mixture to the butter. Once mixed slowly pour in the coffee. It tends to splash so have your mixer on low. You may have to mix by hand at the end scraping the bottom well.

Using a purple scoop ( these are color coded scoops, I don't have a number for you.) Put in the first scoop and then add your cookie ball being careful not to push in all the way to the bottom. Try to center it the best you can.Then add a second scoop an top of the cookie ball. Bake for 20 mins. making sure the cupcake is done,(not) the center cookie dough.
 








 
Once cooled I sprinkled them with powdered sugar and topped them with ganache in the center and choc. chips for garnish. You can top them with buttercream or whatever sounds good to you.


this is the packaging I use for my cupcakes. They are the large oriental to go boxes. They work really well and are a good price.

Cherry cupcakes...

So I made cherry cupcakes for Valentines and they turn out wonderfully. I used a wonderful white cake recipe and colored part of the batter pink which I added cherry flavoring (o'natural from local cake deco store)to. The buttercream I used was a french vanilla I had left over from other cuppies and added some of the cherry flavoring as well as chopped cherries from a can of pie filling that I used in my choc cuppies(later). I think that a little white choc coating on the top of the cupcakes before the buttercream would be awesome,yum!

Sorry no pics, camera coming soon.They were pink and white inside the cups and the butter cream was a very pail pink from the cherry filling I added with little bits of red cherry to enhance the flavor , color etc. I didnt include a recipe because these are fairly basic recipes most of you have . You can just enhance them.(:

Portland cupcake meetup: Saturday, February 20th

Cupcakes Take The Cake are having a Meet Up for cupcake enthusiasts YEAH!!! Its at Saint Cupcake from 2:00 until 4:00 In downtown Portland see their blog for details.

French Vanilla and Chocolate Truffle

So, right now ...

I'm thinking about the apple turnovers I made for dessert tonight they where so good. I had some phyllo dough left in the fridge and it was my grocery shopping day so... My sister had brought home some crab from a crab feed she was at so I made some crab and cheese wontons. Talk about yumm. I wonder what I was in a previous life. I either was starved or feed very well because I tend to enjoy food. The only thing I won't eat is canned spinach, that natural gag reflex steps in. I can eat it raw in a salad or even spinach dip, but that slimmy canned stuff is just wrong.

Positive thoughts Susen. Ok so food network is blairing in the back ground and I'm wishing I had a camera. Soon. Tax return. There's a story, so I get my w2s and they put the wrong social on them so who knows how long I have to wait . I have an appointment on the tenth with the NW Merci Corp. they help with women opening their own business. I'm so excited, there are so many awesome cupcake businesses out there and I'm hoping mine will grow just as well. I have over 20 years experience in the baking field having owned a bakery before and working in the field as well. I wish you could taste these cupcakes and I wish I had my camera so I could show you more.

Cupcakes Galore