Gotta Love Oreos!!!

I love making new and different kind of cupcakes.  Sure there are the classic chocolate, vanilla, etc. but I want to make cupcakes that are made from some of my favorite foods, hence the Oreo!  I don't have too many pictures of this cupcake because I didn't have my camera when I was done baking them so as soon as my sister decides to send me the pictures I took off her camera I will have more to share.

My favorite part of this cupcake is that it is baked with half of an Oreo on the bottom, it serves as short of a crust.  I then mixed crushed Oreos into the chocolate batter, baked them, and then topped each cupcake with a delicious Oreo Cream Cheese Frosting!  I can't get enough of cream cheese and don't think I ever will.

You might say that the best part of an Oreo is dunking it in milk, well I say what is better then that is dunking an Oreo Cupcake in Milk!!!

Party Time!!!

So my little girl turned 4 last Saturday and this year instead of going and buying her an expense cake, which most of it would go to waste, I decided to make her cupcakes.  Now, everyone knows that you can't have a birthday party without party hats.  Therefore, what a great idea to make party hat cupcakes.  These were pretty simple to make and it is a basic chocolate cake with a cream cheese frosting.  The hat is a sugar cone dipped in candymelts.  This turned out much better then I expected because in the past I have never been too successful with melted candy.

I will have to admit that when it came to decorating the "hats" I did have a little help.  This is only because I was trying to finish these, prepare for a BBQ and do about 30 other things all at the same time.  Thanks to my friends and their help these cupcakes turned out really cute and they were a hit with the kids and the adults!

So next time you are having a birthday party for a kid or an adult, don't forget to pick up your own "party hat cupcakes."

Small's Small Cupcakes

For as far as I can remember my family has called me "Small."  I can remember my brother calling me Small first and soon everyone in my family was.  This is my nickname because for some reason all my siblings got the tall genes and by the time I was born I guess they were all used up.  I don't think I am that short, 5'4 I feel is the perfect height.

Seeing as my family likes to call me "Small" I decided to make some small cupcakes and name them after myself.  From now on any mini cupcake I bake will be called Small Cupcakes.

This is the first time I have attempted to bake small cupcakes and besides making sure not to overfill the baking cups with batter, they turned out pretty good.  This time around I went with a vanilla bean cupcake with a carmel filling, peanut butter cream cheese frosting and a chocolate chip to garnish.  I loved the vanilla bean in this cupcake and you could really taste all the flavors.

The nut cups were perfect to bake my small cupcakes in.  Sad that it took us until the next day to figure out the easy way to pull the paper off, turns out it is possible without biting it or having to use scissors.

Because these are small cupcakes I tend to eat more because it is like a tiny cupcake shot.  One bite and it is gone, leaving you wanting more.

Drop me a line and let me know what you think or if you would like your very own "Small Cupcake."