Birthday Cupcake Rose Vase

I made this cupcake vase for a birthday celebration. These are low-fat Chocolate cupcakes with not so low-fat butter cream icing! For the chocolate cupcakes, I used low-fat milk and unsweetened apple sauce. When you use apple sauce to replace the butter the cake comes out very moist and dense. So, keep that in mind. If you don't like a more dense moist cake, you might want to stick to the more conventional ingredients.

I got the metal vase at a local craft store. It looks very cute! Great presentation for the most delicious roses you will ever get!

View a similar post about a cupcake planter I made.

Cupcake Planter

Chocolate mint cupcakes for a little girl's birthday. Blue was one of her favorite colors; hence the blue icing - adorable!

Valentines Day Cupcake Jar

Delicious chocolate cabernet sauvignon cupcake in a jar.
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Coquito Cupcakes

Apparently, the coquito drink is a hit around the holidays. So, here is my coquito cupcake; full of coconut milk, coconut flakes, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground cloves, real vanilla extract and a hint of rum! Oh, and I didn't use butter for the batter; again, to reduce some calories, I used apple sauce.

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes

I love chocolate mint ice-cream. So this is my interpretation in a cupcake; which is very good eaten cold too. Used fresh mint to mix with the batter. Also, replaced butter with unsweetened apple sauce to reduce calories. Moist and deliciously refreshing!

Passion for Pastry Cupcakes are AWFUL

Last Saturday I went to the mall to do some shopping and I was craving a nice cupcake. Well, I knew that Passion for Pastry, a bakery at the food court at the Town Center Mall, sold cupcakes and I couldn't wait to get me one. After I am done with my shopping I stopped by the bakery and picked up a chocolate cupcake with cappuccino icing to eat tat the mall and got a second one to bring home to my husband; a chocolate with sprinkles.

Anyway, I ate mine at the mall but wasn't really happy with it. As I ate, I was trying to not pay any attention to the box taste in the cupcake. So, I pretty much fulled myself and ate it all, I was really craving a cupcake and didn't want to disapoint myself. I also had really high expectations for that cupcake. But, once I got home I took a bite from the second cupcake and there it was, the moment of truth, again it was really awful! It tasted even worse than the first one. I was so upset and could not believe that at $3.25 a cupcake someone had the courage to sell that kind of stuff - the cupcake was just awful even my husband said it tasted like the box and the icing was soo sweet it made me want to spit it out- the whole experience with that cupcake was very disapointing. I wil lnever go back to Passion for Pastry. I can only imagine how their fancy cakes taste - PROBABLY AWFUL TOO IN A MUCH BIGGER SCALE.

I don't recommend getting any cupcakes from Passion for Pastry or any of their cake either- it's not worth half of the cost - you will be better off getting a box of cupcakes at Publix at just over a dollar each or less if they are on sale.

PB&J Cupcakes

Last weekend I decided to turn one of my husband’s favorite sweet treats, PB&J sandwich, into a cupcake.

Peanut Butter & Jelly Cupcake Ingredients:

• 1 box of white cake mix, you can also use butter cake mix
• 2-3 cups of Peanut butter spread; I used Jiffy’s reduced fat
• 3 eggs
• 3-1/2 sticks of unsalted butter (oil substitute)
• ¼ cup sour cream
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 cup of milk (water substitute)
• Grape or strawberry jelly
• 1/2 cup chopped peanuts
  

Directions:

1. Cream about ¾ cups of peanut butter with ½ stick of butter
2. Just follow the instruction of the cake mix box, but make the substitutions listed above.
3. Add to creamed peanut butter - cake mix, eggs, vanilla extract, 1 stick of butter, sour cream, milk
4. Fold in chopped peanuts
5. Bake according to cake box instructions
   

After cooled, inject the jelly into each cupcake with a piping tip and voila! Now, it’s ready for icing.

Peanut Butter Icing

Mix about 1-2 cups of peanut butter with 2 cups of confectioning sugar; taste it to make sure it’s not too sweet and make sure it stays at a good consistence for decoration. Not too hard and not too soft.

Well, it turned out delicious and I even had extra for a little cake.

If you like PB&J sandwiches, this is a must. I am sure you will love it!

Baking on Sunday – Cupcakes, wheat bread & more

You have to check this post I did a few months ago, it's in my other blog; and I guess I am just to lazy to move it all to the new La Petite Baker blog, so I will be adding links to my older baking posts here and there.

Anyway, that Sunday I wanted to finish a lot of the stuff in refrigerator, like ½ can of cranberries and ½ can of crushed pineapple. So, in an effort to not let the food spoil ..... read more go to http://webbyzard.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/baking-cupcakes-wheat-bread/

Chocolate Cake with Swiss Run Buttercream Icing

This was a cake I made for my husband's birthday. I took a delicious cupcake recipe from this book and turned into a small cake. The Swiss run butter cream icing was soo delicious. See more at http://webbyzard.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/delicious-chocolate-cake/

Coconut Cupcakes

Chococlate Raspberry Cupcakes

Cupcakes for the Cure