Cupcake Week! day 3: Key Lime Cupcakes

A special thanks to my friend Lindy who gave me the recipe for day 3. key lime cupcakes with lime zest cream cheese icing, recipe found here.

Forgive me, I forgot to take pictures. I also made a few mistakes. I used skim milk instead of buttermilk and then I used all purpose flour for everything instead of the self rising. I also added a lot more sugar. They taste okay. I should've left out the extra sugar so they stayed on the tart side. I think because of the alterations I made with the flour and milk the texture was off. But again, they were okay. The icing however, was FABULOUS! Although, as Katie Bailey pointed out (I'd thought the same thing) the icing looks like sour cream with chives because of the lime zest in it. Ha! Next time I will follow the recipe exactly.



Please excuse the one on the bottom left. It fell on the counter so I had to smooth the icing out with a knife.




Katie was my taste audience. She approved!!!

Stay tuned for my absolute favorite flavor of cupcakes for day 4!

Cupcake Week! day 2: PB& J

Day 2 was National Peanut Butter Lover's Day. In honor of the day, I made PB&J cupcakes. CONFESSION: I actually didn't know it was National Peanut Butter Lover's Day until Christopher told me last night and I'd already made the cupcakes. Whatever. PB&J cupcakes are white cupcakes with grape jelly filling and peanutbutter frosting. I concocted this recipe myself by taking parts from different recipes. I got the white cake recipe from "Hello, Cupcake!." I adapted their buttercream icing recipe by adding a cup of peanut butter.


Ready to be filled. When it comes to grape anything, Welch's is best.

Voila!

We went over to Cousin Pam's so she could be my taste audience.

"It's like a sandwich dessert."

-Christopher A. Wilson

PB&J was a success!

Cupcake Week! Day 1: Raspberry Lemonade

Day 1 was successful. In fact, it's going to be very hard to top. I love anything lemon flavored and I love raspberry filling. So, the natural thing to do was to put them together. Thus the raspberry lemonade cupcake was born. Lemon cake filled +raspberry filling topped with lemon buttercream icing = DELISH!

I got my lemon cake recipe adapted from Hello, Cupcake!'s lemon poppyseed recipe. I got the lemon buttercream recipe from here. You can't go wrong with Wilton. They practically invented icing. So! Here we go!
The ingredients

Into the oven they go (forgot to take a pic of mixing the ingredients)

How approriate to burn my lemon cupcake candle while baking?

Icing (had a little help thanks to yellow food coloring)

Raspberry filling Normally I use seedless jam, but I decided to give

this pastry filling a try. It takes the cake! (sorry, I couldn't resist)

Filling the cupcakes with my Wilton cake decorator

thanks to C's Grandad and Grandmom. (yes that is Crystal

Light Lemonade I'm drinking, I wasn't kidding about my love

of lemon).

All filled up

VOILA!!!!

Bethany, my taste audience.

Success! Raspberry Lemonade was a hit!