Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry Cupcakes

My friends and I, instead of going to our school's senior prom, threw our own "alternative prom" with just our closest friends. We brought a whole bunch of yummy things, I of course made cupcakes. These are chocolate cupcakes with strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream.

My prom date and I ♥--------->

Easter Egg in a Nest Cupcakes

• Orange cake with fresh zest
• Almond Buttercream frosting
• Toasted coconut

Classic Combo Cupcake

In order to raise money for the Four Diamonds Fund, an organization which pays the medical bills for children with cancer, I decided to bake some classic chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing. The cupcakes have both melted semisweet chocolate as well as cocoa powder in them so they're super chocolatey :D I stuck a Reese's PB cup in the icing for good measure, too!

Baby Shower Cupcakes

• Vanilla cake

• Raspberry filling

• Almond buttercream frosting

• Topped with white chocolate-coated animal crackers

Yum! I made these for a baby shower; I normally don't use white cake because I feel like it's boring, but with all the other flavors going on it worked wonderfully. The raspberry filling was tangy, the frosting was fluffy and buttery, and the nonpereils added a fun crunch.

Holiday Spices

 

After receiving an abundance of baking/cooking supplies for Christmas, I got in the mood to make some holiday cupcakes. So here they are: Gingerbread Cupcakes with a Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting, then topped with a homemade Molasses Cookie.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Along with an abundance of pumpkin pies, I made a Salted Caramel Apple Pie for Thanksgiving this year. The apples were simmered in homemade caramel and then sprinkled with sea salt (appropriate since we spent Thanksgiving by the shore) before being put into the crust. My mother then cut out the lovely dough leaves to top the pie with.

Owl Cupcakes; A Halloween Treat

I made these owl cupcakes for a Halloween party because I thought they'd be a cute alternative to the traditional pumpkins and spiders and all that jazz. They're made from my grandma's chocolate cake recipe (my favorite :)) and then the decorations are pretty obvious:
Oreos for the eyes and ears
Brown M&Ms for the pupils
Yellow M&Ms for the beaks
And then I piped more chocolate icing around the ears as feathers :)