Love, Cupcake.: March 2011

Hey everyone!

I'm so sorry about not keeping up! Procrastination gets all of us somehow! xD Yeah, I've only made one cupcake since the last post. Terrible! But it's really good, so that kind of makes up for it. Don't worry, next week is Spring break so I will be keeping up! :D

So this cupcake is just a Fruit & Nut Cupcake, this is what it calls for:

10 tablespoons lightly salted butter, softened

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

scant 1 2/3 cups self-rising flour

3 eggs

1 teaspoon almond extract

1/3 cup mixed nuts

scant 1/3 cup mixed dried fruit

Ingredients, we just got a bag of fruit and nuts from Fred Meyer.

Butter and almond extract, mixed.

Add brown sugar.

Same.

Mix!

Add the flour.

Mix, feel the burn. ;)

My cupcake bracelet. :)

Eggs, I got a double yoker! :D

Mix it and add the fruit and mixed nuts.

Stir until its kind of fluffy and smooth.

So there was no frosting with this cupcake either and like I said my mom and I don't like that, a cupcake has frosting, muffins don't. :) So my mom made a glaze not sure how I just have the ingredients, comment if you'd like to know and I can have her reply back. :)

Powered sugar and some maple sugar.

The final product, they were realllly good and great for on the go for breakfast, or even just sitting with coffee. :)

Yummy!

Enjoy! :)

Well, you know how I said 500 plus cupcakes, yeah I'm not so sure anymore because the book I got was weird and the cup we had to do called for some not findable ingredients, so I had another cupcake book that I really like that I'm gonna do. It has 200 recipes, and that seems way more reasonable. I will take some cupcakes out of the other book but for now I'm sticking to the 200 one. (If you'd like the names of the books I'm using feel free to ask.) Anyways, the first cupcake in the 500 book was Spanish Orange Syrup Cupcakes, sounds delish huh? Well, it called for Semolina and Almond Meal we looked at Winco and Fred Meyer, my Mom and I weren't for sure on what it was if it was flour or something else, plus it was expensive for just a little, so we said no ha. We thought of what we gonna do and we decided it would be easier to use the other book, which we did and the first recipe was just a plain Vanilla Cupcake.

Here's the list:

10 Tablespoons lightly salted butter, softed

2/3 cup superfine sugar

1 1/3 cup self-rising flour

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Oh and cupcake liners of course!

After you get all your ingredients, you get a bowl a mixing thing-a-majig such as a spatula or whisk, put all the cupcake liners in the cupcake pan and put the ingredients in the medium sized bowl.

I felt under pressure ha.

Cupcake liners in.

Butter and sugar. (Mix when added.)

Flour.

Mix, mix, & mix.

Add eggs.

Another egg.

Mix everything together.

Keep mixing. (Feeling the burn yet.) ;)

Add the vanilla.

Mix everything until its a good consistency, kinda think.

After its all mixed, put the mix into the cupcake liners.

I just used an ice cream scooper and a spoon.

I thought that we would only need six liners because there wasn't much mix..

I was wrong, it made about 10, haha.

Now, the oven should be at 350 degrees and bake about 20 minutes.

My Mom and I don't like unfrosted cupcakes, so she made some frosting, (she's the frosting expert.) You can use any frosting you'd like but we made our own, but I have to tell you there's no exact measurements, she just kinda goes with the flow. :)

What you will need:

Powdered or Confectioners sugar

Shortening

An orange (We bought it for the orange syrup cupcake in the other book.)

Butter

Heavy Whipping Cream

Vanilla