I made these cupcakes a couple months ago for my niece's 1st Birthday party - they were delicious! The recipe can be found here. This is a very easy and delicious cake recipe, it's very moist and like the recipe suggests, could be customized with any type of candy. I think peanut butter cups or heath bars would be delicious!! :)
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I made these cupcakes for a friends 4-year-old's Birthday ~ I was told she liked Dora, so I decorated them in pink & orange, the colors of Dora's usual outfit. I made the flowers out of gum paste a couple days ahead of time - it was my first attempt at making gum paste flowers, they're nothing fancy by any means, but they are bright & colorful. :)
I used the cake recipe from the snickers cupcakes I've made before from www.mybakingaddiction.com, except I left out the snickers. I couldn't find a white cake recipe I liked, so I also used this recipe for the white cupcakes using a white cake mix and coconut cream pudding mix and it turned out quite good, I think. :) For the cake: 1 (18.25 ounce) package devil’s food cake mix 1 (5.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix 1 cup sour cream 1 cup vegetable oil 4 eggs; lightly beaten 1/2 cup warm water 1 teaspoon of vanilla 24-30 frozen Snickers Miniatures Method 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 2. Line (2) 12 cup muffin tins with paper liners. 3. In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs, vanilla and water. 4. Evenly divide the batter amongst the prepared pans. {I use a large cookie scoop from OXO to scoop my batter; it holds 3 tablespoons}. 5. Gently push a frozen Snickers Miniature bar into the center of the batter and smooth the surface making sure to cover the candy bar with batter. 6. Bake for 18-22 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. 7. Cool cupcakes thoroughly on wire rack. The frosting was my mom's cake decorating frosting recipe from her years of cake making. I hope they liked them! I decided to try these cupcakes after seeing them on www.bakersroyale.com - they looked delicious and I had some bananas that I needed to use up. Her recipe calls for a homemade carmel sauce (which I have made and is very good) but I wanted to try something else. I googled how to make dulce de leche and discovered it could be made by simply pouring a can of sweetened condensed milk into a glass pie plate, covering it snugly with foil and baking it in a water bath in the oven at 425 for 1 1/2 hours. Pretty simple and very delicious!
The cupcake recipe can be found here and these cupcakes are delicious by themselves or with the frosting! The frosting, which was adapted from this, I mixed: 2 sticks of butter 1/2-3/4 cup of the homemade dulce de leche (I didn't measure, I just scooped it in) 1 tsp. vanilla 3 TBSP Half & Half 1/4 tsp. cinnamon Powdered Sugar to reach desired consistency The end result was absolutely delicious ~ I brought them to work and was told they were the best cupcakes people had ever eaten. :) I've had my eye on this cookie recipe for quite awhile - as a lover of whoppers, I didn't think you could go wrong...whoppers, malted milk powder, chocolate...bliss!
The flavor of malted milk is a little stronger than I'd like ~ so I'm not exactly sure what to think of these cookies, they didn't "wow" me like I thought they would. They're good, just not Awesome. I found the recipe here. I substituted a half cup of heath toffee bits because I had them on hand and used only a half of a cup of the chocolate chips the recipe called for. |