CUPCAKES BAKED
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CUPCAKE PAPERS REMAINING
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These cupcakes were a combined effort: one baker, one frosting specialist, two sprinkle experts, and several taste testers contributed to making this project a success!
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Vanilla cake, baked and decorated by Abigail (with a little assistance from her auntie and MOMO). It tasted really good! Chocolate cupcakes, baked by the author, frosted by MOMO, embellished by Caleb. These ones earned five-star reviews as well!
This cake was a combined effort. I baked the numbers on Friday and MOMO decorated them on Saturday. There was batter left over after making the seven (hardly surprising, given its small profile), so we followed the same baking and frosting protocol.
Turning five is a serious business! After much discussion, our friend decided that chocolate cupcakes with blue frosting would be best for his party. He added lots of white balls as a finishing touch. These balloon cupcake papers are foil-lined, which is a big improvement when baking a dark cupcake!
Benjamin selected a yellow cake mix and stirred in all of the additional ingredients. He used three different kinds of cupcake papers, as we only had a few of each left over from previous baking projects. While the cupcakes baked and cooled, he dusted the whole house, because his philosophy is, "After you bake, you have to clean up!" This is one of the many reasons why he is always welcome at my house! Benjamin used his unique sprinkle mix to decorate the frosted cupcakes. He devoured one in about twenty seconds after his post-dinner workout and announced that it was "soooooooo good!!!!!"
On my bob day, June 7 of 2019, I made CUPCAKES! I made 21 vanilla cakes!!! I used blue cupcake papers! Because my FAVORITE color is blue! When the cupcakes are half baked take them out and put m&m’s in! The reason why we do this is if you put them in the batter they will sink to the BOTTOM!!! And we do not want sinky cupcakes! And once they’re COOLED I used vanilla frosting to ice the cupcakes then I used 4 types of sprinkles to top them off!!!
We had six children for Friday fun, so of course two of them wanted to bake cupcakes! Abigail chose scalloped floral papers (left) and Benjamin chose a black-and-white motif (right). We used a chocolate cake mix. Abby measured the oil, and we each cracked an egg. They could use more practice with eggs, so we definitely need to make more cupcakes together!
In Relief Society today, we are studying "The Joy of Unselfish Service" by Sister Cristina B. Franco and "Believe, Love, Do" by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf. Because Sister Franco shared a story about a Primary teacher who made chocolate cake every week, I had to bake chocolate cupcakes for the class! A double batch of our family's buttermilk chocolate cake recipe makes 48 cupcakes, so my four-year-old friend helped me decorate one dozen and took them home to his family, and the remaining three dozen are going to church today.
Today's recipe is Vanilla Layer Cake from Martha Stewart Cakes. It only made three cupcakes! For the purposes of the Cupcake Counter, the largest one is a cake, as it did not use a paper. In all other respects, though, it is definitely a cupcake!
To me, "Brownie Cupcakes" sounds like cupcakes with a brownie flavor. . .but this recipe turned out to be brownies baked in cupcake papers. The intended recipients enjoyed them anyway. The papers were my favorite part of this project!
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