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Movie Themed Cupcakes

S'mores, movie themed cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes (tinted green) sits on a graham cracker crust and topped with miniature marshmallows.

My Gourmet Cupcake Box

Every so often I do gourmet 6 packs in my local are and this what I've done this week. Look below to see the flavors.

S'MORE - chocolate brownie cake topped with dark chocolate ganache, cookie bits and toasted marshmallow frosting.

ROCKY ROAD - macadamia nut brownie cake topped with a milk chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and pieces of marshmallow and Turkish delight.

LEMON MERINGUE PIE - vanilla buttermilk cake filled with a tart lemon curd and topped with a ginger snap cookie and toasted marshmallow frosting.

FERRERO ROCHER - moist chocolate cake topped with a chocolate ganache, crushed hazelnuts and a Nutella, Swiss meringue buttercream.

Baby Shower Cake and Cupcakes

Simple Baby Shower cake and cupcakes. Chocolate cake and cupcakes with a mousse filling  also vanilla cake with a vanilla pudding filling.

Simple and clean Vanilla Cake and Cupcakes

This is a very simple  yet elegant choice for any small function. It's a vanilla cake and cupcakes with my Italian buttercream frosting. Not every design has to be massive and intricate to be eye catching and appreciated.

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Moist Vanilla Cake

Italian Buttercream

Giant Springtime Cupcake

With Easter tomorrow and living in Southern California it feels like Springtime 75% of the time, so why not make a Springtime themed giant cupcake for Easter dessert.  

The details for this cupcake are really simple.

I hope you enjoyed.

Collection of My Cupcake Bouquets

I tend to make these for only a few occasions, not a everyday order. Valentine's, Mother's Day and certain people's birthdays.  If you're a home baker in limiting when you offer these beauties, it increases the demand when you do. I love how many variation of flowers you can create. Your creativity can run wild.

Engagement Cake

This is an engagement party I had the pleasure of creating for. The bride to be loves Tiffany's but didn't want the normal Tiffany themed set up so we took the Tiffany blue color and used it as the accent color to accompany black and white.

Top tier:

Decadent Chocolate - A divinely decadent chocolate cake filled with chocolate fudge & chocolate-chip mousse.

Bottom tier:

White Almond Sour Cream - White almond sour cream cake filled with cheesecake & raspberry puree. Also great with chocolate-cheesecake filling!

Cupcakes:

Devil's food  with a Italian buttercream frosting.

Super Moist Chocolate Muffins

It's Friday so I have another muffin recipe and these are one word: scrumptious! Very moist, tasty and full of chocolate goodness! Even better the next day.

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 applesauce 

3/4 cup chocolate chips

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg

1 cup plain yogurt

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.

2. Combine flour, sugar, 3/4 cup chocolate chips, cocoa powder, and baking soda in a large bowl. Whisk egg,  applesauce, yogurt, milk, and vegetable oil in another bowl until smooth; pour into chocolate mixture and stir until batter is just blended. Fill prepared muffin cups 3/4 full and sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup chocolate chips.

3. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

Coffee Cupcakes with a Baileys and Kahlua Frosting

So these are two of my favorite things booze and cupcakes.  In the spirit of keeping it simple this is another great recipe I'd like to share. 

If you're not going to dissolve your coffee before adding it to the batter, make sure your instant coffee is fine when adding it in. I would recommend putting it into a coffee grinder, food processor or blender to make it fine.

When you don't dissolve it, you can see the specks of coffee in the batter as pictured above and I love it because it gives you more flavor.

Cupcakes

Ingredients

1 cup all purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Pinch of salt

1 cup sugar

4 eggs

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 tablespoons instant coffee ground finely or dissolved in 3 tablespoons boiling water.

Directions

1 Preheat oven to 350.

2 Sift flour with salt, baking powder in a mixing bowl.

3 Add rest of the ingredients in another bowl except the coffee. Whisk mixture until creamy in texture.

4 Add in the flour and whisk for 10 seconds.

5 Using a spatula, fold in the coffee. Pour mixture in well greased baking pan.

6 Bake on the middle rack for 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Frosting

Ingredients

1⁄3 cup butter, softened

2 1⁄4 cups icing sugar, sifted

1 tablespoon Kahlua

1 tablespoon Baileys

3 tablespoons instant coffee

1 tablespoon hot water

Directions

1.  In small bowl dissolve instant coffee in hot water.

2.  Beat butter at medium speed in a mixing bowl until creamy.

3.  Add gradually powdered sugar, Kahlua, Baileys and hot coffee mixture.

3.  You can add more Kahlua and Baileys if you want a stronger coffee flavor frosting.

4.  Will frost 12 cupcakes.