BAKEMANIA (and technical difficulties..)

SO! As previously mentioned in m y last post I was going to be baking this last weekend and yeah. It was. Amazing. More than amazing. It was spectacular. Spent Thursday night doing homework and making cupcakes until the 11 o clock hour and it was the best thing ever.....

I'm trying to get photos onto the post but until I can get onto my laptop this post will be painfully blank, colorless and dull because school computers wont let me do things with pictures and the Blogger app is painfully useless to me right now and just. Ugh. Things. The tortures of life!

But yes these cupcakes. These Strawberry Brownie Beauties that I created just. Wowza. Delicious. There are three cupcakes that I have loved more than any other of the many batches I've made for the shows I've worked on and for other misc. events and these are(for now until better idea comes along) going into the book of Good Food Things(I should make a thing like that..otherwise I'm going to lose all the delicious recipes..)


Going to label all the steps here WITH PICTURES!

STEP 1

You make you mix. and make bloody certain that you've got enough cupcake liners and eggs because too often have I gotten home to the crushing realization that I need to go BACK to the store and just...*Grumbles*

So. Make your mix according to whatever directions you are following whether they be scratch or box(I used box).

Depending on how many cupcakes you want to make you're going to want two boxes for around 55 and one box for about 27.I'm not actually sure how many cupcakes I could have made, I only made 48 and still had enough batter for yet more cupcakes but I'll tell you more about what I did with that later...

STEP 2

Line your little cupcake pans with some awesome little decorative cupcake liners. Depending on where you go you can get the fun and fancy off brand ones for cheaper than normal boring cupcakes. I think they are just a smidge smaller but hardly noticeable. Just saying..for the fun of cupcakes and such...

Spray each cupcake liner with some cooking spray(whatever you use). Do it as individuals not as a big swoosh. it gets better coverage that way.

STEP 3

Put about 1-2 large spoonfull(s) of brownie batter into the bottom of the cupcake. Then once that is complete all but fill your cupcake liners with strawberry. Not too crazy but much more than the normal 2/3 full. You want nice beautiful rounded muffin tops not that crap that just barely makes it over the liner!

STEP 4

The box directions that I used had similar cook times but still not quite the same so I compromised with the highest number on the one that took less time. A little less than halfway and that actually did produce some nice cupcakes(about 20 minutes at 350).

STEP 5

Remove your new cupcake soldiers from their quarters and set them out on a cooling rack or the stove top wherever you put your baking things to chill. Your army has begun. Let them cool for the time of the next batch of cupcakes.

STEP 6

Once you have successfully gotten all of your cupcakes from the oven AND TURNED THE OVEN OFF(....don't forget about that. Parents/other inhabitants of your household will accuse you of trying to burn  down the house) begin frosting them with whatever frosting you will use or be creating.

If you don't have fun decorating things or don't think you have enough frosting to do fun decorating you can always do fun swirls with a butter knife or some handy tool like that. Do what you desire to do and whatever you see fit!


Since out opening night was on Valentine's Day I put little chocolate hearts on these beautiful creatures. But other chocolate pieces(Like Hershey's kisses..) would probably work just as well for non-lovey cupcakes.

STEP 7

Enjoy! These are delicious and always taste what you make I mean really you guys. You can't give people food without at least trying it..at every step of the way..shhhhh......

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

For those of you like me who get sleepy and just there's not quite enough batter for another 12 cupcakes with he strawberry and there's too much of the brownie but if you make more cupcakes you wont have enough  brownie left over for real brownies but you don't want to make brownie cupcakes.....

There's another way!

Just pour all the remaining batter into a small square pan and swirl it together(or layer it whatever you want to do). Bake for about 25 minutes and viola. Brownies! Deliciousness. As for that left over frosting....that's what spoons are for. Or crackers. Am I right or am I right?

IT'S PRODUCTION WEEK..

....YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!

CUPCAKES!

Image from cupcakemojo.com which looks like a really delicious website, check it out!

More delicious sites here: Caterlicious

Glorious Cupcakes!

This is the blog who has these cupcakes! thatwinsomegirl

It's that time again, the winter show is upon us.

Don't mind me as I use this opportunity to advertise because YOU SHOULD GO SEE THIS SHOW IT'S LOVELY

COARSE ACTING STRIKES BACK

Friday, February 14  at 7pm

Saturday, February 15 at 7pm

Sunday, February 16 at 3pm

Tickets are $5 at the door!

In the Jackson High Auditorium

Okay but beyond the Show(which is awesome!)

I always make cupcakes for the cast because I love them, they're awesome and we put a ton of work into these shows. So as a reward people bring food. 

Well, seeing as our opening night is on Valentine's Day I decided to make a sort of Valentines themed cupcake..

How it's going to work:

A brownie bottom. A strawberry Cake batter layered on top and then! At the end of it all! Cream cheese frosting on top and a little chocolate heart because it's Valentine's Day so why not?!

Yeah. These cupcakes are going to rock. 

In past years I've made a cupcake that's half chocolate and half vanilla(vertically! fancy stuff not this layering jazz), super chocolatey ones with chocolate mousse in the middle and yummy homemade chocolate cream cheese frosting on top and various others. Generally lots and lots of chocolate and yumminess but occasionally I try and get fancy. And since this is Valentine's Day so it works. 

Will post pictures of the process! Which I always forget to do whoops..

Okay so I have yet to actually cut my Narwhal pieces. I've got the colors all picked out but. The Narwhals are well. It's a slow process.

HOWEVER!

I do a lot of baking sometimes and of late I've been baking things. Alas I haven't photographed anything. Sadness.

But here's some of the things I have made and I'll link recipes that are either like them or the exact ones! SO!

Chocolate Peppermint Bread

Similar Recipe Here

Okay so this isn't exactly the same recipe as the one I had made, the one I got I got for Christmas it was in a tube with the mix and things so I didn't have to mess with all the dry ingredients however this is pretty close. I didn't have that strange red frosting type stuff under my peppermints and my peppermints were more crushed because I used a hammer(a rolling pin also works) and a plastic zippy bag.

This bread actually went pretty easily. There were some problems getting it out of the pan, i don't think i greased it enough so some stuff got stuck on the bottom(Yay yummy leftovers! Can't leave good food to just get washed out!) but other than that it went really great. The bread was really delicious;. I wrapped it in foil and just left it in the microwave however if you stick it in the fridge that's good as well.

I think some tasty toppings with this would be some vanilla ice cream with a mint topping whose name I can't think of but that used to come in this glass bottle and it was green and really good and some dark chocolate drizzled on top because wow. Yum.

Pumpkin Bread Pudding
Recipe

Okay so this was not one of my prettiest creations however it was pretty tasty though maybe not my favorite one and I'm not sure I would do it again unless I had a spring form pan which I think is where my problems came from. Also I don't think I mixed everything together as much as I should have.

The bread pudding ended up taking two hours to bake. Again I think this was because of the problems that I mentioned before. It was taking awhile to get the consistency I wanted and to not just be raw pumpkin stuff.

But overall it was good. I think I will try it again if I ever get that kind of pan. Also some whipped cream and maybe some ice cream would be good if I could get it to normal bread pudding consistency. I would definitely like to try this again.

Normal Bread Pudding

Okay so normal bread pudding recipe I got from a  book that I have at home so I'll type it up later for you however this recipe was, as my grandmother often says, super easy. It turned out great and was the perfect consistency, texture and flavor. There was little that could have been done to make it more awesome and simple.

Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Similar Recipe Here

Again I got this from a little package so I'll have to put a close recipe. However This also turned out amaaazing though I think in the future I'll cook it a little less than the box says because I like my bread and such things to be a little doughier. But this was also really fantastic. Again I keep saying add ice cream but really like the breads and everything on their own are great. Just. Yes they are lovely and you should definitely try making them on your own.



A Note for the Bread Puddings:

Not everybody plans ahead to just have stale bread, I know I sure don't because I'm pretty spontaneous when I bake things. So for those of you that are like me and kind of bad at pre-planning when to make their deliciousness, set your oven to 350, throw it on a pan and bake it for 10-15 minutes and viola nice staled bread.