Deliciocity Friday: Kryptonite Cupcakes

Yes, I realize that title shows some nerdiness. 

I'm alright with that!

This is another semi-homemade recipe but of course you could tweak it for your abilities and preferences.

I started by making a filling.

I used:

4 Tbsp cream cheese

1 tsp cocoa powder

1 Tbsp powdered sugar

Start with the cream cheese being soft (room temperature) and mix all these ingredients well. 

I started with a basic yellow cake mix. I prepared that as instructed but added mint flavoring, about 1/8th of a teaspoon. But you can make that more or less as you want. My goal was a slightly minty flavor, not over done.

I also folded in 1/2 cup chocolate chips.

I put most of the batter in first then added the cream cheese mixture. Finally finished off with the rest of the mixture.

Bake as directed on the mix.

For your frosting; start with a simple white frosting. Add green food coloring till you like the look and just a couple drops of mint. The frosting you can easily taste test but remember that you'll be adding the mint of the cupcake.

Allow the cupcakes to cool, then frost and try to eat just one at a time!  

Deliciocity Friday: A&W Root Beer Float Cupcakes

I'm still working on getting over my illness from the past week, then yesterday I nearly cut off the end of my pointer finger on my right hand.

As such I'm still a bit out of it and have no use of my most used finger.

So sorry for lateness again and if there are any typing errors.

I'm going to tattle on my husband a bit.

Shhh, don't tell! 

hehe

Before my husband and I started dating, were just barely friends at this time, I had an opportunity to look in his fridge.

The entire contents of his fridge were, multiple bottles of A&W soda...

In his freezer were carton after carton of partially eaten containers of ice cream.

That was it.

Yeah, he had some interesting food habits before we got together! lol (don't get me started)

So suffice to say, if it involves A&W root beer or ice cream, the hubby is happy!

So when I came across a mention of root beer cupcakes I figured I could do something really big and awesome with the idea.

Since I'm a semi-homemade kind of girl I started with a yellow cake batter. 

I made the cake mix as described but where it called for water I used the same amount of A&W root beer. I also used a few drops of root beer flavoring for candies. I often find these little bottles of flavorings at Wal-Mart. Try looking in the craft area if not found in the food aisles.

Next I made a vanilla cream filling. I followed a recipe I found but I have no idea what the creator was thinking, it was way off and I had to edit it a lot. So I'm going to tell you as best as I can remember what I did to make the recipe, forgive me if I'm slightly off and tweak your own to get the right consistency.

Ingredients:

Approx. 1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

1-2 tsp vanilla extract (to taste)

possibly some powdered sugar for individual preference.

First heat the milk well, microwave will work. Then thoroughly stir in the flour and set aside.

Blend the warmed butter and sugar till well mixed.

Next add the milk mixture to the butter mixture and add the vanilla and beat thoroughly.

To fill the cupcakes, wait till they cool after baking and using a sharp knife, cut a cone from the center of the cupcake. Cut the top of the cupcake off the cone. Fill the well then place the top back on top of the cupcake.

Since the filling is fairly sweet I wanting something not too sweet for the topping. Hubby also happens to love cool whip.

I added the root beer flavor to some cool whip and mixed. I think I added 7 or 8 drops for about one and a half cups of cool whip but add as much as you like for best taste.

I then piped the cool whip on top of the cupcake and added a cherry to top it off. Alternatively, if you have root beer candies you could crush them up and add them on top of your cool whip.

As for verdict. Hubby loves them! I poured him a glass of A&W to drink with the cupcake. He ate the cupcake then took a drink and said the drink actually tasted a bit weak after the cupcakes! 

   

Deliciocity Friday: Multi-colored Cupcakes

Another treat I made for the Splatter Paint Party that I posted about previously, is multi-colored cupcakes.

I used a white cake mix because all over online they say to use white for bright colors.

If I did it again I'd ignore everyone and use yellow.

White isn't as flavorful as yellow and yellow would make stronger colors with less dye added.

Ingredients:

Boxed cake mix

Ingredients listed on box

Multiple small bowls

Food coloring

I also made a filling that while looked awfully runny ended up working fine after sitting in the cupcake for a bit.

I made the mix as directed except didn't beat for quite as long as directed because you have to mix more to add the dye and you don't want to over mix.

Once mixed I scooped the batter into multiple bowls. I did just the four base colors in an average food dye box so put some batter into three other bowls.

I added dye to each bowl then carefully hand mixed it in. Probably at least 5-6 drops per bowl.

Then using a tablespoon I scooped one scoop at a time into cupcake liners. I alternated different colors so that they weren't all alike. 

Then baked.

Filling:

4 oz Cream Cheese

1/4 cup powdered sugar

1/8 cup milk

After the cupcakes had baked and cooled I used a sharp knife to cut a cone out of the top of the cupcake. 

I mixed the filling well then scooped it into the well.

I cut the top off the cone and placed the top back onto the cupcake.

(the insides you get to eat!)

For the frosting I used gel food coloring by Wilton and a paint brush to brush the color thickly onto the inside of a piping bag.

Then filled with white frosting and added my frosting tip.

You'll need to squeeze some frosting out to get it to go from solid white to multi-colored.

(pst, squeeze it onto the cupcake centers you cut out then eat later!)

Forewarning, there is a strong chance that all this coloring will color your tongue. 

Not great for office lunch but really great if you're a kid at heart and enjoy that sort of thing!

Happy Eating!  

P.S. Just had to share with you the kitchen helper I often have. 

Sure he doesn't keep me from messing up but he does cheer me on with a happy meow throughout my baking! :)

Deiciocity Friday: Nearly Chocolate Overload Cupcakes

Yellow cupcakes with chocolate chips, chocolate chip cream cheese filling and chocolate frosting.

These would be chocolate overload except I used yellow cake mix. You could easily go all out and make everything chocolate by using chocolate cake mix.

Cake:

Yellow cake mix

Ingredients required on cake box

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Filling:

8oz cream cheese

1 egg

1/3 cup white sugar

1 cup chocolate chips

Dash of salt

(also need frosting of choice)

Start by making the filling. Allow cream cheese to get to room temperature. Meanwhile chop the chocolate chips up, either by hand or via a food processor. Using a beater, mix the cream cheese and egg. Once mixed add in the sugar and salt. Finally fold in the chocolate chip pieces.

 Set aside.

Preheat your oven and prepare your cupcake pans as directed. 

Mix your cake mix like normal, when finished gently fold in your chocolate chips.

Begin filling your cupcake liners. Fill about 2/3rds full of cake mix. Do not go over or you'll end up with mushroom cloud cupcakes. Then add about a tablespoon of your filling on top of the cake batter.

This should make more then the usual 24 cupcakes so be prepared for that.

Bake as directed, allow to cool then frost.

Makes a moist cream cheese cupcake that is oh so delicious!

Deliciocity Friday: Cream Filled Carrot Cupcakes

The filling is a bit sweet like a cupcake, but the cake density is sort of like a muffin. However the recipe would probably make some good bread also...

 Confused you yet? :)

I made my batch into just over 12 cupcakes, but next time I'll probably do it as about 1 loaf of sweet bread.

First the filling:

8 oz cream cheese

1/4 c sugar

1/4 tsp vanilla flavoring

 Microwave the cream cheese just enough to make it soft and creamy (maybe 30 seconds), then mix in the other ingredients and set aside.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

Cake:

2&1/4 c flour

2/3 c sugar

1/4 c brown sugar

1&1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

2 tsp ground cinnamon

3/4 tsp ground ginger

3/4 tsp salt

Whisk all these ingredients together.

In a separate small bowl, whisk together:

2 eggs

3/4 c water

1/3 c vegetable oil

Whisk the wet ingredients then carefully stir them into the dry ingredients. Don't over mix.

Lastly fold in 1 cup grated carrots (about 2 carrots) 

If making cupcakes, line the pan with cupcake papers. If making a loaf of bread then spray the pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Fill your baking container with about half of the batter. Then add in the cream cheese filling and finish by using the rest of the batter to cover the filling. 

Bake for about 17-19 minutes.

It's not necessary to frost them, however, if you want more sweet to your cakes you could frost with more of the same recipe as the filling or with a regular cream cheese frosting. 

Deliciocity of the Day 1-6-12

I am not a big fan of cakes, but once in a while the craving hits.

I decided to make strawberry cupcakes, with cream cheese and strawberry filling and strawberry frosting... 

I like strawberries, stop giving me that look!

I'm a semi-homemade type girl. I like taking something from the store and making it better. So I started with strawberry cake mix and made as directed. Then just before sliding them in the oven I dropped a small piece of cream cheese in the middle on top and a little bit of strawberry jam. 

Then baked as directed. Don't worry that the filling is sitting on top, it will sink as it bakes.

Once ready I allowed to cool for an hour then frosted with strawberry frosting from the store and used cupcake decorating stencils to sprinkle red sugar over some to add the extra pretty factor, on others I put a slice of strawberry.

 So delicious! I want more. And the hubby says they may not make it to church tomorrow!