Strawberry cupcakes

I had someone asked for white cupcakes with strawberry frosting for a baby shower. I actually didn't have a go to strawberry frosting recipe, so I had to search for one. The one I ended up using was so good, these cupcakes ended up looking pretty and tasting great!

Baby Shower Cupcakes

I know earlier in the week I said I don't make cupcakes often and now here I am posting about them again. This was a last minute order that was picked up on Valentine's day which explains why I didn't take a picture until I had them boxed up. Whoops! Anyway, they were chocolate cupcakes with pink and blue vanilla buttercream frosting since they aren't finding out what they are having.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

It's not often that I'm asked to make cupcakes, I'm not sure why. It's also not often that I'm asked to make red velvet cake, but here they both are with chopped pecans on top. I'd never heard of putting pecans on red velvet cake, but I googled it and found out it is common.

Mini Fall Cupcakes

My mother-in-law gave me these super cute baking cups, and when I ended up with extra cake batter I couldn't wait to try them out! I also had leftover chocolate frosting, and since I'm excited about it being fall I decorated them with little pumpkin sprinkles. These made the perfect treats to take to a friend's house for a girls' night.

Candy Corn Cupcakes

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but I'm not a huge cupcake fan. I mean I like them just fine and of course I'm happy to eat them, but I just think cakes are so pretty. However, my whole opinion of cupcakes went out the window when I made these. These candy corn cupcakes I made for a tailgate were adorable! They didn't taste like candy corn, only looked like them. They were white cake with vanilla butter cream frosting. I'd be okay making these again soon!

Chocolate and Peanut Butter

I like peanut butter as much as your average person, but while looking through recipes I kept coming across ones for chocolate and peanut butter cakes or cupcakes. For some reason, they intrigued to and I decided to make one of the cupcake recipes just for fun. The cupcakes was peanut butter flavored with chocolate chips in it, and even without frosting it was very good! The original recipe included peanut butter frosting--it was incredible. I think I could have eaten the whole bowl of it with a spoon. While it was a good frosting, I felt like I needed more chocolate, so I also made a simple milk chocolate frosting and swirled the two together. The cupcakes turned out SO rich, but SO good!

Several months later I had a customer call (rather last minute) needing cupcakes for her bunco group the following day. She wanted something a little different. I told her I had a good peanut butter chocolate chip cupcake, and she said that sounded great to her. I wanted to do something a little different from my initial attempt at them. I decided to still make the scrumptious peanut butter frosting and to drizzle chocolate ganache on them. They turned out pretty and tasty!