Chocolate Peanut Butter

Today my experiment was Reece's Peanut Butter Cupcakes! YUM! The big ones have actual reece's cups inside. The smaller ones have peanut butter chips in them. It's just plain vanilla frosting, but I added some raw sugar on top to give it a little extra flair! It also gives it a little crunch and extra sweetness that's kind of good too. Dave said they were "ok" and tried to qualify that with "I don't really like cake." So we'll see how the other moms like them in the morning. I have 2 back to back events tomorrow so they are my guinea pigs! I'll let ya know!

Starting Out

I decided that making and decorating cupcakes could be a good thing to learn to do and if I worked at it maybe even something I could eventually do for other people too...we'll see about that. Eventually I'd like to get into making more organic ones, but for now, while I'm testing out recipes and trying to learn to do cute designs...we're sticking to the regular kind.

This kind of started when I was thinking about making something cute for the boys to try and get them to eat something healthy. I made this chocolate chip/pumpkin muffin with apple sauce and put cream cheese frosting on top. It was awesome!

So I thought I'd try to make something for Connor's class for Valentine's Day....

It didn't work out so well. I tried red velvet with cheesecake, twice, and both times it looked like this. I ended up with a non-exploding recipe but they didn't taste too good!

So I thought I'd try again, but just focus on the decorating this time. I got these from What's New, Cupcake? They are supposed to look like cherry and blueberry pies. I need something to help me transport the cupcakes though because I ended up dumping 5 of my 23 cupcakes and ruining them.

The next one I'm going to try is to make them look like french fries using pound cake.