My facebook feed "fed" me this utterly drool worthy recipe from TidyMom yesterday morning.
I never randomly choose to bake (it's got to be Kevin's birthday or something) but I knew I had to taste these cupcakes. Which means I would have to make them. I later realized that one of my visiting teach-ees DOES have a birthday today. Yay for random inclinations that leave me with awesome things to share.
(Happy Birthday J! These are coming your way!)
The recipe calls for 6 and half sticks of butter and has a filling that includes sweetened condensed milk. Rich rich rich. So I went ahead and halfed the recipe for the cupcakes themselves, that way I'd end up with just 12 instead of 24. Since I didn't half the filling and icing recipes, I have leftovers of those but I can keep them in the fridge or freezer and use them with fresh cupcakes another day. Other than that I followed the directions exactly. Just pop on over to TidyMom for the must have recipe (and maybe tell her I sent you.)
My first attempts at icing. I tried to get fancy. (Fail.)
Still not professional grade but better yeah?
Kevin came home and liked but didn't completely love his cupcake. We have somewhat different tastes in food (and various other things in life). You'll definitely need a glass of milk close at hand to combat that richness we were talking about. Yummy yummy yum yum! I'm so glad I decided to bake today!
Dang those look YUMMY!!!
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ReplyDeleteI also made this frosting from Tidy Mom's post (originally from Annie Eats) and the frosting was not a hit with any of the big group I served them to for Mother's Day. :( SOOOOOO sweet and grainy from the brown sugar. I think all three of us made some beautiful cupcakes though. ;-)
ReplyDeleteMy cupcake recipe was the bomb though and soooo easy. Easy Gourmet Cupcakes, which I found at: http://heatherbailey.typepad.com/heather_bailey/2011/01/easy_gourmet_cupcakes_recipe.html
I'm trying to add more cupcake/frosting recipes to my cupcake repertoire. Happy Baking!!
they were just as delicious as they look!!!!!! Thanks Amy!
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