Cupcake #6

Aren't you glad I didn't say ORANGE cupcake

I remember being a kid going to the dairy to get ice cream. We would always choose between fudgesicle, big stick, and an creamsicle.  So when I had a request from a mom with a 4yr old for orange cupcakes, apparently it is his favorite color, I had to some how incorperate it into the cupcake! So I made an orange creamsicle cupcake.  YUMMY. You know how hard it is to find orange sprinkles? I went to Walmart, Fry's, Micheal's and Target, no orange sprinkles. So I bought mini m&m's and used the orange ones. I never thought that orange cupcakes could taste so good.

Cupcake Recipe

1 Package white cake mix
1 package cheesecake instant pudding mix
1 package orange jellotin
4 eggs (lightly beaten)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/4 cup orange juice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix all ingredients together in mixer until batter is smooth. Fill liners until 2/3 full. Bake for 18 mins or until toothpick come out clean. Put on cooling rack to cool completly before frosting.

Frosting Recipe

1/2 stick of butter (room temp)
1 8oz. package of cream cheese
1 teaspoon orange abstract
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 cups of powder sugar
orange food coloring

Beat butter and cream cheese until smooth and fluffy.  Add orange and vanilla abstract and mix, turn mixer on low and gradually add powder sugar. Divide the frosting into 2 bowls and add food coloring to one. In a piping bag fill one side orange and the other with white. Frost cupcakes!

Cupcake #5

Baby Shower Cupcake

My future sister in law had a babyshower over the weekend! Guess what I made, you guessed it, cupcakes! They decided not to find out the gender so the theme of the shower was Americana. What better than red velvot and blue velvet cupcakes? I saw the idea on pinterest of the frosting being a egg and putting a fondant sperm on the top of it so I had to do it. I mean it was a baby shower!

The recipe made do many I even used 2 dozen for the teacher appreciation luncheon at my kids school. No, I didn't put the fondant sperm on those, that would have been a little awkward. Instead, i added another poof of frosting and grated chocolate on top.