Chocolate Cupcakes and Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Both of these recipes are simple and classic. They’re easy to make and always a hit. I usually don’t use cupcake papers, but I found tin foil ones at the store and was able to put the batter in the papers and bake them right on a cookie sheet. I halved each recipe so that [...]

Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

I baked a LOT of cupcakes yesterday. I originally wanted to try piping a rose on each cupcake, but realized later that the cream cheese frosting does not have enough powdered sugar for the frosting to fully harden. So I did swirls on the small cupcakes and just spread the icing on with a knife [...]

Mocha Cupcakes with Mocha Frosting

I decided to make cupcakes this past weekend, but I didn’t want to make plain old chocolate cupcakes, so I made mocha chocolate cupcakes instead. The coffee intensifies the flavor of the chocolate, while adding subtle flavors making them not too sweet and kind of dangerous. The recipe is adapted from mybakingaddiction.com: Cupcakes Ingredients: 1-1/3 [...]

Devil’s Food Cupcakes with a Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

I haven’t baked since Thanksgiving. Since the semester is drawing to a close and the work was piling up, I decided to take a bit of a hiatus, but now that I have a month and a week off (ahem!), I’ll be doing lots more baking. To start things off I made these: Are they [...]

Mini Vanilla Cupcakes with Ganache Frosting

Last minute decision tonight to bake. I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for like a month now, so it’s definitely about time. Nothing much to add to the recipe, except that I added two chocolate morsels to each cupcake cup for some extra chocolate-y goodness. Make sure to let the cupcakes cool all the way before [...]