That's A Lot of Cupcakes

"That's a lot of cupcakes," and "that's a lot of work," were common responses when hearing that I would make two hundred cupcakes, for a friend's wedding. My friend's wedding was anything but traditional, it was a rock concert wedding, with a band, groupies, and an internet licensed minister or should I say ministeress. With keeping with the theme of the wedding, I wanted my cupcakes to be unique too, so I made eleven different flavors. We had:

1. lemon cupcakes with lemon frosting
2. strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting
3. cherry cupcakes with limeade frosting
4. spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
5. chocolate cupcakes with raspberry frosting
6. Italian Creme cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
7. margarita cupcakes with lemon-lime frosting
8. chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting
9. orange cupcakes with orange frosting
10. vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting
11. chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting

I think I went through at least 12 bags of powdered sugar, 8 boxes of unsalted butter, and half a gallon of milk, just for the frosting! Overall I had so much fun making the cupcakes, the wedding cake was a little bit more stressful, but I would happily do it all over again. Thanks Jenn and Cody for letting me provide your wedding with Katie-Cakes. Thanks also to my amazing husband and wonderful friends for helping transport the baked goodies. Couldn't have done it without you!

Some cupcake fun

My dessert loving friend and I decided to collaborate on some cupcake masterpieces. The result? Pure genius, combined with heaven, equals amazing. We made two different kinds. Both cupcakes were chocolate cake, but we cut out the centers of the cupcakes and put raspberry ganache in one and mint ganache in the other.
Then we put raspberry chocolate frosting and mint chocolate frosting on the respective cupcakes. Our ganache didn't really have time to set up, so when we cut into the cupcakes it was like a molten lava cake.
The mint cupcakes were really good, but the raspberry cupcakes were amazing. I wish I had one right now... and then we took silly pictures with our cupcakes.
I think we had a little too much sugar at that point. I'm looking forward to our next collaborate effort, especially eating it. In fact I'll probably dream of it tonight.

Happy Birthday to...meeeee!

I'm a little late in posting this. But they always say, better late than never... My birthday wish came true, my dessert loving friend made me some strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting, and topped the cupcakes off with delicious sprinkles. Some people don't get sprinkles. But they really are a necessity. They add so much delightful texture. I will admit that I have been known to eat just a spoonful of sprinkles...so good. Of course it has to be the right kind of sprinkles, because if they are really crunchy, then it totally ruins it. Enough about sprinkles right now, the cupcakes were absolutely delicious, and this picture is of the very last one. Yep, it was good till the last bite. Dessert loving friend-please send more :)

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

With the coming of fall, comes the great taste of pumpkin and spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Probably the two greatest spices ever made. My mom especially has a soft spot for those flavors and she made a special request for some spice cakes, and I decided to spice up the cupcakes with some pumpkin puree. I made the cupcakes in a foreign kitchen, meaning not my kitchen. I had to use a hand held mixer and didn't have my double ovens for baking. But I did have my dessert loving niece as my cupcake helper. So we made a spice cake, added pumpkin puree and then topped them with cream cheese frosting. My niece added the cinnamon sugar topping, she is about cute as a cupcake and just as sweet!