The Things I've Baked...

Happy New Year! Best wishes for a wonderful 2013! Here are just a few things I baked this year that I never had tried before. This coming year I am looking forward to trying new recipes, and coming up with crazy creations!

Many new and improved recipes and ideas for the coming year,
~Cupcake Girl~

Happy Birthday ~The Beginning~

This is the second cake that I helped make for my birthday! It is a sponge cake, full of eggs.

Happy almost New Year,

~Cupcake Girl~

Christmas Cookies

~'Twas The Cookies before Christmas~

'Twas the weeks before Christmas, when all through the house, not a cookie was unfrosted, not even a gingerbread house. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Santa would soon eat his share. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar and sweets danced through their heads. -Based on 'Twas the Night before Christmas :)

Many, many cookies and sprinkles later...

With love,

~Cupcake Girl~

Happy Birthday ~The Opening~

This is the first cake that I had on my birthday! It is a lemon cake, with raspberry and strawberry icing, sprinkled with pomegranates!

Happy Holidays,

~Cupcake Girl~

News from the Cupcake Philosopher #13

Will the world end this Friday? :) I hope not, there are plenty of cakes still to be baked...

Tootles,

~Cupcake Girl~

Holiday Cookie Pictures and Recipes

 It's that crazy time of year again! This batch of cookies was only one of the many holiday cookie batches to come. I decided to use the easiest and most basic sugar cookie, so I could focus on decorating. The recipes I used for dough are right here:
http://www.marthastewart.com/344249/basic-vanilla-cookie-dough
http://www.marthastewart.com/346411/chocolate-cookie-dough
Have a very happy holidays everyone!

Love always,
~Cupcake Girl~

Holiday Cookies

Hi Everyone-
       I am so sorry I haven't posted in so long, I have been very busy lately. Today I am going to make sixty holiday cookies, and you can look forward to pictures, recipes, and probably some crazy baking disaster story that awaits me. I will soon post picture of my birthday cakes and cupcakes. (Yes cakeS there were multiple!)

Happy early holidays,
~Cupcake Girl~

A Little out of the Ordinary Cupcake Poll

Question: What kind of cupcake should I make now?
Answers: Blackberry Applesauce French Mint Lavender Result: Applesauce cupcakes won!  Okay, a very interesting choice! I will find and make a good recipe as soon as possible. Note: Be sure to check out the What is your favorite kind of Cupcake poll  You can now translate this blog to fit your needs, ~Cupcake Girl~

Cupcake Mints

   

Yum! Yum! Yum!

 I have these on my desk, and they are actually pretty good.

(Although, they taste nothing like cupcakes.)

Anyway, I just wanted to say...

Happy Thanksgiving,

~Cupcake Girl~

~The Preparation~

Hello Everyone!
        Today as my feet shuffled down the cool tile of the bright supermarket I started to gravitate towards my favorite isle. The best isle. The shelves are lined with little jars of sugar and sprinkles died to pieces with every food coloring there is, icing hangs in little crinkly plastic bags, birthday candles line the walls (Why? It's the baking section after all), silver cupcake and cake pans hang off their hooks, and the hundred different patterns of cupcake wrappers are all stacked up like russian dolls. I saw the wax candles and immediately thought that in ten, yes ten days is my birthday. I decided a long time ago that I would make mini-cupcakes for my class of thirty-six. I am probably going to use my favorite recipe ever (See here: http://sunnyrubyart.blogspot.com/2012/07/you-are-looking-for-really-delicious.html ) because it is the cupcake girl's tried and true. Back to the story, I was standing in the isle and I spotted these absolutely adorable mini-cupcake wrappers. They have these little pictures of stylized cupcakes wrapped around there edges and on the bottom is a big cupcake that underneath says Cupcakes! Okay, a little bit to stylized but very cute! I got them and am very excited for this is the preparation for my birthday! Preparation is sometimes my favorite part, for example I like making cupcakes more than chewing them. The process and seeing happy people eat them is the best part!
I was very disappointed with this particular store though (I won't mention any names) ahhhemmm- there was no, zip, zero, goose egg, zula, no fondant! I'll post picture of the final cupcakes.

It's me again,
~Cupcake Girl~

Cool Looking Book #2

Buddy Valastro has been a great inspiration to me. If you don't already know he has a bakery in New Jersey called Carlo's Bakery. You can check his website out right here: http://www.carlosbakery.com/ 

Buddy has three cooking shows, his most famous one is Cake Boss. Someday, I want to actually go to his bakery and taste all of the wonderful thing you always can see him baking. This is one of his books he wrote with, "100 of Buddy's Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets." 

You might want to check it out,

~Cupcake Girl~

50th Post & over 1,100 Pageveiws in Four Months

I did not make this cupcakes, but new cupcakes are soon to come!

Ta Ta for now,

~Cupcake Girl~

Birthday-- Last year

I made these cupcakes for my class last year on my birthday. They were lemon cupcakes with a lemon glaze, and they were decorated with pomegranate seeds. In 19 days it will be my thirteenth birthday!

 I might have to make some new cupcakes...

Happy three-day weekend,

~Cupcake Girl~

News from the Cupcake Philosopher #12

It has already snowed,

~Cupcake Girl~

HAHA!

May the best candidate win,

~Cupcake Girl~

Bagels! Bagels!

Hope everyone had a wonderful time trick-or-treating! 

Last week I made these great sourdough bagels with my Dad:

Happy November 1st,

~Cupcake Girl~

Old- Fashion Popcorn Balls Recipe

• Old- Fashion Popcorn Balls Recipe:
  
  
  5 cups popped popcorn
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup light-colored corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
  
  
  
  

                                        directions:
  

  1. Remove all unpopped kernels from popped popcorn. Put popcorn in a greased 17x12x2-inch baking or roasting pan. Keep popcorn warm in a 300 degree F oven while making syrup.

  
  

  2. For syrup mixture, butter the sides of a heavy 2-quart saucepan. In saucepan combine sugar, water, corn syrup, vinegar, and salt. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until mixture boils, stirring to dissolve sugar (about 6 minutes). Clip a candy thermometer to side of pan. Reduce heat to medium; continue boiling at a moderate, steady rate, stirring occasionally, until thermometer registers 250 degree F, hard-ball stage (about 20 minutes).

  
  

  3. Remove saucepan from heat; remove thermometer. Stir in vanilla. Pour syrup mixture over the hot popcorn and stir gently to coat. Cool until the popcorn mixture can be handled easily. With buttered hands, quickly shape the mixture into 2-1/2-inch diameter balls. Wrap each popcorn ball in plastic wrap. Makes about 20 popcorn balls.
  
  No school today,
  ~Cupcake Girl~

  
  

  
  
  
  

Spooky Cupcake Graveyard! (Happy Halloween Pt. 2)

Happy Halloween! Here you see a small section of the cupcake graveyard comprised of seventy-two chocolate cupcakes!

Hurricane Sandy is on it's way- have a SPOOKY Halloween,

~Cupcake Girl~

Popcorn Balls! (Happy Halloween Pt. 1)

I made these for the first of two special Halloween Posts! These are very easy popcorn balls and a very sweet and spooky treat.

The recipe is coming soon,

~Cupcake Girl~

Chocolate Coffee Cake

I made this chocolate coffee cake this summer. On the top is edible flowers, partridge berries, and peaches.

Have a RAINY rest of Monday,

~Cupcake Girl~

News from the Cupcake Philosopher #11

Sorry I haven't been able to post in awhile,

~Cupcake Girl~

4Oth Post!

I can not take credit for these cupcakes, but look it's the 40th post! These cupcakes are fairly simple and very beautiful! The red, white, and pink makes me think of Valentine's Day. That reminds me. I need to make a super scary treat for Halloween!

Happy RAINY day (and week),

~Cupcake Girl~

A Little Chocolate Cake

This is a very simple vegan chocolate cake.

New recipes are COMING SOON!

It's almost a three-day-weekend,

~Cupcake Girl~

Coffecake!

I made some sour cream coffeecake last week, it came out pretty well!

Buenos Tardies (We were practicing this in Spanish Class today), 

~Cupcake Girl~

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News from the Cupcake Philosopher #10

Hello October,

~Cupcake Girl~

It runs in the Family- The Birthday Cake!

I worked on this cake with my Dad! It's a spiral staircase dark chocolate cake.

Happy Fall,

~Cupcake Girl~

News from the Cupcake Philosopher #9

Start Smiling,

~Cupcake Girl~

Fondue... BURNT Fondue

Hello Readers! I had an idea that I would make some yummy fondue this weekend. Everything was going great, the chocolate chips looked delicious, the apples were all sliced nicely, but then smoke started rising from the pan. The room got cloudy, like mist hiding away the burning chocolate. I stirred to no avail. And. Half an inch of burnt chocolate covered the bottom of the pan. It was heartbreaking. The chocolate was ruined. The fondue was not present. The apple slices sat lonely. They wore the same expressions that you see on apples who have been mad into pie. I sat down and held back tears as I mournfully scraped the charcoal.

The horror story of the week,

~Cupcake Girl~