Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes

Hope everyone had a wonderful Saint Patrick's day on Thursday! For our pot of gold after our meal, we made these wonderful cupcakes! Enjoy!

Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp almond extract
1 cup boiling water
1 Butterscotch pudding cup

Directions:
Mix together all the dry ingredients.
Add in the eggs, milk, oil, and almond extract: beat until smooth
Add the water and pudding and mix until blended
The batter will be watery so you will have to ladle the batter into your liners.

Bake at 350* for 20-25 min. Cool in the pan 5 min, then remove and cool completely.
Frost cooled cupcakes and top with butterscotch chips. Yum!

For the frosting, use our Marshmallow Frosting recipe and simply add Cocoa powder:

Marshmallow Frosting
Ingredients:
4 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature)
2 cups powdered sugar
20 oz marshmallow cream
2 tsp cocoa powder

Directions:
Beat butter until creamy
Add sugar 1/2 cup at a time, beat until fluffy
Stir in marshmallow and cocoa powder.


Catch you on the sweet side!
Marcie and Katelyn

Chocolate Cinnamon Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Marshmallow Frosting

For this delicious cupcake, we use a simple, fluffy chocolate cinnamon cupcake, a super yummy peanut butter marshmallow frosting, and top it all off with a Snickers. :)

BAKEs Chocolate Cinnamon Cupcakes (adapted from The Farm Chicks chocolate cupcake recipe):
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup boiling water

Directions:
Mix together all the dry ingredients.
Add in the eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla: beat until smooth
Add the water and mix
The batter will be watery so you will have to ladle the batter into your liners. Be sure to have something like a paper towel ready because it will drip everywhere.

Bake at 350* for 20-25 min. Cool in the pan 5 min, then remove and cool completely. Then frost to your hearts delight! For our Peanut butter marshmallow frosting, click here.


This recipe is one of our favorites so far. In fact a friend of ours is having a birthday on Wednesday and for his present, we're going to make him these cupcakes topped with a snickers piped with frosting so that they look like little presents. Should be cute!

Enjoy!
Marcie and Katelyn

Peanut Butter Marshmallow Frosting

We are in love with this frosting! So yummy and light. 

BAKEs Peanut Butter Marshmallow Frosting
Ingredients:
4 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature)
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
20 oz marshmallow cream
1 cup peanut butter


Directions:
Beat butter until creamy
Add sugar 1/2 cup at a time, beat until fluffy
Beat in the vanilla
Stir in marshmallow and peanut butter

This recipe makes a lot of frosting, probably enough for 3 dozen cupcakes. Also this frosting can melt, so be sure to refrigerate after frosting if you are trying to hold its shape.

Hope you all love it too!
Marcie and Katelyn

The Ballerina Cupcake: In honor of the Sacramento Ballet Company

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Who doesn't love a little Romeo and Juliet? Even you boys out there can't deny you get a little teary eyed at the end. (Admit it, we all know you do). Well in honor of next weekends performance of Romeo and Juliet by the Sacramento Ballet Company, I felt I needed to create a cupcake. (Yes, a cupcake).

And behold...the Ballerina Cupcake!

When I thought of what a cupcake had to be in order to capture the feel of the ballet, I knew my honorary cupcake needed to be light, fluffy, and most importantly pink and white. So naturally I took our signature vanilla cupcake, added some food coloring, topped it with a light marshmallow frosting and admired my work. I really wanted some little ballerina shoes to top it off with but they were no where to be found. Not even in the Barbie section! I went to three different stores and no luck, talk about disappointed. But hey, I still think it turned out nice. :)

So next weekend (February 10-13th), if you are in the Sacramento area be sure to support our wonderful ballet company and catch a performance of their telling of Romeo and Juliet. They wont let you down.

Follow this link for more information.

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend!
-Marcie and Katelyn