Cupcakes

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Up your boxed mix cupcake game with these chocolate cupcakes covered in a rich, fudge frosting and soft salted caramel I’ve been experimenting with caramel for years now, and am just a little proud to say I’ve absolutely nailed it with my soft caramel recipe. If you haven’t already tried my easy microwave caramel recipe, …

Chocolate and strawberries kind of go hand-in-hand for Valentine’s Day if you ask me. But this year I decided to switch it up a little bit and turn them into chocolate covered strawberry cupcakes for Valentine’s Day!   Luckily, they’ve got 2 of my favorite things going for them when it comes to dessert: They …

  My parents have 6 kids and somehow my Mom manages to remember each of our little food likes and dislikes. I think she’s got some kind of cart catalog in her head that helps her keep track through the years. I’m not complaining, though, because every time she makes potato salad, I get a …

These 4th of July fondant cupcake toppers are so easy to make, but look like you spent lots of time on them! I’m going to share a super simple trick today to give you professional looking cupcakes for all of your 4th of July picnics this summer! Have you ever worked with fondant? It is …

The perfect chocolate peanut butter cupcake recipe for anybody who takes their sweets seriously! It’s one of the greatest truths that we know in this life: peanut butter and chocolate are a perfect pairing! You could get me a whole line of people to tell me I’m wrong, and I still won’t believe them.  Throw …

We’re friends here, right?  So honesty is always the best policy, right? We are SO not a cupcake family. Or a cake family. At all. I think that’s why I make them so often, because I know we won’t really be tempted by them at all!  There are a few flavors I’ve made along the …

Cookies are my kryptonite.  Seriously, somebody should get me that on a bumper sticker. What is it about those bite-size little morsels?? Oh wait, I know… they’re filled with butter and sugar, and both are things I approve of.  I’m a fan of the classics- chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies and, of course, snickerdoodles!  …

This post is going to be super picture heavy and really light on words!  So let me know if you have any questions and I’ll try to answer them in the comments section! Our carnivals started about 2.5 years ago when my sister had a backyard carnival birthday party as a combined party for my …