Mmmmmmm Bananas Foster

Bananas Foster is one of my families favorite treats. They love the brown sugar, bananas, and rum! How the flavors just go so well together. Of course I had to re-create that beloved dessert in cupcake form. I thought it was going to be more complicated than it actually was, but getting the banana flavor to not over power the brown sugar and rum, and keep all the flavors in harmony. Well, it was just magic!
When my husband took that first bite of the cupcake and I saw his eyes light up, I knew I had gotten it right. I'm so glad it turned out to be another hit! What's your favorite banana cupcake?

Blueberry Cupcakes: Ironically, They Make You Feel the Opposite of Blue

I Love blueberry pie. I wanted so badly to re-create that flavor in a cupcake. I took one of my vanilla recipes and tweaked it, adding a little lemon and some frozen blueberries. I created a vanilla cinnamon butter cream to top it off. The finished product? A blueberry pie tasting cupcake! They were moist, the blueberries bursting in every bite. The vanilla cinnamon butter cream was the perfect finish! They were just plain good!

Vegan!

I had been trying to figure out a way to broaden my cupcake variety besides trying new flavors. It wasn't long until I found some vegan cupcake recipes. I noticed that the chocolate recipe I found was a lot like my regular chocolate cupcake. SO, I made the substitutions and voila! The vegan "butter cream" was pretty simple and as easy to make as regular butter cream. I was nervous once they were done. Would they measure up to a regular non-vegan cupcake? Yes! No one even new the difference! Everyone loved them, some even having seconds. I was so excited. Now I can't wait to try the next obvious vegan flavor. Vanilla! lol

Cream filled!

I have to admit at first I was a little intimidated by filling the cupcakes. Now that i feel like I've gotten the hang of it they are so much fun and taste so good. What I have here are the three that people have liked the most. The Banana Fluffernutter, which is a banana cupcake with marshmallow filling and peanut butter butter cream. Next is the Boston Cream (courtesy of my aunt Somari), which is a vanilla cupcake with vanilla cream and a chocolate glaze. Last but not least, is the Coconut Cream cupcake. This one has been my fave of the three. Its a coconut cupcake with coconut custard and a coconut butter cream! Hhhmmmmmmm! All three were moist and yummy.

I Love Pie

So why not make a pie cupcake? Lemon Meringue pie at that. I was sitting at my aunts house and she said she wanted lemon meringue pie, and I hadn't baked in a couple of days. I decided, what the heck, let's try it. Of course as a cupcake that is.  All the components were easy enough. Filling them was even kinda fun, but once they were done........OMG. They were these perfect little personal lemon meringue pie/cupcake goodies. You couldn't eat just one!

Millie's Birthday

I know Carrot cake is not original, but it was a request by my mother in law for her birthday. I did it with a cream cheese butter cream frosting. I really like how they turned out. There really isn't too much to say about them but don't they look pretty? Lol

Spice

A friend of mine had asked me if I had tried anything with tea then she came up with this brilliant little gem. a Chai spice cupcake with cinnamon butter cream! As soon as she said it I new I had to make it. But how would I get that flavor? Easy- real tea! I used a mortar and pestle to grind the tea into a fine powder before putting it into the batter. You could smell the chai throughout the house as it baked in the oven. I was so excited. I'm not sure what it was about the tea but these cupcakes and the combination of the cinnamon butter cream were so comforting. They would have gone perfect with coffee or I don't know, maybe a cup of tea? lol  They were also falling apart moist! So yummy!!! Once again, another hit.