When investigating how to make easy cupcakes all you need to do is get into the kitchen and open up the cupboards and grab a few ingredients. These carrot cake cupcakes are easy to make and filled with vitamin A. The kids don’t need to know their yummy treat is actually good for them.

These are two easy cupcake recipes:

Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Take 2 cups of self rising or all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 2 cups of refined sugar, 2 cups of shredded carrots (like you would have in a coleslaw – use a food processor), 1 teaspoon baking soda, shortening of your choice, 1 teaspoon of either ground cardamom, cinnamon or nutmeg, 4 eggs. Read More

Looking for tips on how to make cupcakes? Making cupcakes is very easy! A show of kitchen ingenuity and you are sorted. Making cupcakes is probably one of the best stress busters you will ever come across. However, there are some tips to making cupcakes you should keep in mind prior to giving any one or many flavors a try. Some of the important tips while making cup cakes include experimenting with flavors most loved by the birthday girl or boy or the family at large. Read More

Another Simple Cupcake Recipe

The easiest way to come up with a new cupcake recipe is to personalize an existing one.  If your favorite cupcake flavor is chocolate, to make create a new recipe from the original chocolate, you can come up with various ideas to make the recipe your own.

For chocolate cupcakes you can do a black forest version of this treat.  You can add a little brandy to the batter and top off your cupcake with cherries.  You can also use bittersweet or dark chocolate. A Devil’s Food cupcake is also another adaptation for the chocolate cupcake modification.  My favorite version is to top off my cupcakes with ice cream instead of frosting.  After your chocolate cupcake has cooled, slice off the domes to create flat topped cupcakes. Garnish your cupcakes with your favorite flavor ice cream.  I like to put vanilla on top of mine. Aside from cupcakes, I also love brownies, so another way to incorporate these two is to add some nuts and marshmallows into the batter.  If you have time to make different flavors of cupcakes you can layer them to create a multi flavored one.  For example, you can exchange the domes of your chocolate flavored one with a vanilla bottom.  Top a chocolate domed cupcake with a butter flavored frosting and the vanilla domed with a chocolate flavored icing.   Read More

Baking Cupcakes With Kids

Baking cupcakes with children is a fun filled activity for families or friends to enjoy. Whether preparing for a party or baking for a quick snack this activity is entertaining and easy to do.

For first time bakers it would be advisable to start with an easy recipe. The basic recipe is to mix butter, eggs, flour and sugar. It is important to remember that since cupcakes are smaller, they bake faster than most layer cakes. Read More

If there is one thing one thing I have learned from my kids is that they are very picky about their food. My kids, nieces and nephews, in fact all toddlers now, do not settle for just about anything I set in front of them. This rule also applies to cupcakes.

I find it curious how they pass over the plain, unfrosted ones I have stocked in my refrigerator. They always go for the ones I spent the most time designing. My Sister shared a ‘mommy secret’ with me: make the food look attractive and the kids will eat it, no questions asked. After all, that was how they introduced them to vegetables. Read More

Adults aren’t as picky about their foods as kids are, but they do appreciate good aesthetics. How else would some of those fancy restaurants flourish when the food itself occupies a mere ¼ of the plate and the rest is compensated by the exquisite arrangement? The same applies to foods cooked in households, be it pasta, main courses, or desserts. Cupcakes are not above the rule as well.

Sure, adults can and will eat those plain, unfrosted cupcakes you didn’t have time to design. But for them to truly appreciate your creation, you need to ice them according to the occasion or the preferences of your family. There are already a lot of unique frosting recipes that utilize a wide variety of ingredients. Experiment with your family’s tastes and stick with what they prefer the most. Read More

The wedding I went to the past week had something unique in their menu. Instead of serving the guests cake from a three-tiered, white fondant-covered cake, the bride and groom (and their planner) opted for cakes that are easier to serve and easier to stow away for later: they have decided to introduce cupcakes for dessert. Though I have heard of cupcakes being served in formal events nowadays, that wedding was the first time when I saw an elegant cupcake in action (that is, ready to be consumed).

I spent some time scrutinizing the cupcake. It was the blackest, most moist, most luscious chocolate cupcake I have ever tasted. But the taste pales compared with its design. The baker used fondant to decorate the cupcake. It was topped with a flat circle of pale blue fondant (the wedding’s theme was blue) with white fondant flowers placed delicately on top of each one. The light colors contrasted sharply with the color of the cupcake itself, giving it an elegant look that no full-fledged cake could ever hope to achieve. Read More

All-Star Cupcake Frosting Recipes

All cupcake frostings were not created equal. Some are sweet, some with a tang; some have fruits, others are garnished with nuts. Making cupcake frostings in itself is an art – you have to take into consideration how it looks, its consistency, and most especially how it tastes. No wonder a lot of people have experimented on cupcake frostings over the years. The tastes that you can incorporate in frostings are as diverse as the combination of different ingredients to suit your preferences.

Cupcake frostings range from the most basic – such as the basic vanilla or chocolate frosting – to the exotic. Each has its own group of loyal supporters, and each can be delicious in their own right. The main criteria for choosing these cupcake recipes featured below are its taste and how easy it is to prepare. It was not easy to play favorites among cupcake frostings, but for us, these emerged as clear winners: Read More

Sometimes, I ask myself, “What better way to wake up than to the smell of freshly-baked cupcakes mingling with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee?”

And I answer myself, “No, there’s no better way to wake up from that.” Then again, it’s also fun to wake up to the kiss from a beloved. But that’s another story.

Anyway, now that I’m quite old and very stressed (adult life can really get to you) I find that I have less and less time to go out and get myself a half-dozen of my favorite cupcakes from my favorite bakery. But there’s an easy solution: I can make them myself! So with my salary I bought my own pans and ingredients, and I started baking. Read More