by the Mall Diva
…And not just my own. I like them because I can make cupcakes with impunity.
Now, I love to make cupcakes and try out new and different things, but the problem with making them (almost) weekly, is having a whole batch of them in my house. They stare at me, calling out my name and reminding me that if I don’t do my part to get them eaten within a couple of days, they’ll go bad, and that’s a shameful waste! So I’ll eat one every day, and maybe that’s okay for one week, but after a few weeks I start looking a little too good in my fat jeans.
This week was my little cousin Weston’s 17th birthday, and today is Princess Flickerfeather’s 19th birthday. Yay! Happy birthday!! So I made a batch of lemon curd filled vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting to send to our youth group on Wednesday night, because I knew they would be celebrating. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go. I think they were well received; the birthday boy said “they were way good”. Yay, me!!!
This recipe was my best effort yet! The cupcakes did what they were supposed to, and were aesthetically pleasing.
To fill these cupcakes, I cut a cone out of their center after they were cool, filled them, cut the top off the little cone, and put the top back on the cupcake.
I didn’t actually have one of these cupcakes. Instead I ate cupcake guts drizzled with lemon curd and topped with frosting. Mmmmmm!!!!!
try this:
fill 1/2 the cup with white cake batter.
right down the center of this, top off with some of the batter dyed pink (with some drops of red food color) that has been laced with mint extract.
top with white icing (fluffy white works well)that has been turned pink, and sprinkle with crushed candy canes.
it was ‘Hit’ when i did it a couple yrs ago.
(i may be a manly-man, but i play ‘cake chef’ when nobody is looking. and darn good at it,too. 🙂 )
Thanks, Gino! Maybe you should start posting recipes on your blog every now and then… 😉
i put one up for ya.
simple,easy, and oh, so yummy.
benny wenny (lol) 😉 will love them.