M&M Cupcakes

My lil guy is getting creative with cupcakes too!

After being inspired with the banana cupcakes, he was really excited to do M&M cupcakes this time!

These are chocolate (devil's food) with mini M&M's inside. He then wanted to add chocolate icing on top & topped with more mini M&M's.

They were baked in liners that contained NO pink or purple! They are fun liners with a mod, geometric, circular pattern in blue, green, orange & white. Just perfect to hold an M&M cupcake!
The M&M's that were baked into the cupcakes acted as chocolate chips!

It's like you are eating a really big M&M!

Now my older kids are getting inspired too...be watching for upcoming cupcakes that they have been wanting!

Popcorn Cupcakes

When I made my cornbread cupcakes, it was to tide me over until I could try to make popcorn cupcakes! I wanted to do them ever since I found the red & white striped cupcake liners that made me think of a popcorn box. I have also seen some super cute popcorn decor for them online (which I used), but, if you haven't yet figured out, I have to go beyond that & make the cupcakes TASTE like popcorn, too! But how?

I used white cake mix & popped some salted popcorn. I then added margarine to it to help break it down a bit & give it a great buttery flavor. Then it went directly to the batter, handpicked to make sure no unpopped kernels made it into the cupcakes.

When those baked up, I made sure to use my filling "corks" to make way to fill the centers with a coconut buttercream. After I filled the popcorn cupcakes with the coconut buttercream, I spread a layer of it on top of each cake. This would be the "glue" for mini marshmallow topper. As I learned from other sites, you take the marshmallows & rip them in half; take 2-3 (3 works best) of the torn pieces, squish them together & it forms a "kernel". After each "kernel" was formed, I placed them all over the top of each cupcake, making sure to secure them to the icing. When the top of the cupcake was covered (about 15 "kernels" per cake), I had to take it a step further...I sprayed the tops with butter-flavored cooking spray.

It took 2 hours to arrange the tops of 24 cupcakes, but it did look like movie popcorn!

Not only to they look like a tub of movie popcorn, but it has a really great taste that isn't too sweet & isn't too over-the-top. I used the coconut in the buttercream to be reminiscent of the movie days of using coconut oil to pop the corn. YUM!

However, since there is actual popcorn in it...keep some floss around...you still get the fun pieces stuck in your teeth.

Chocolate Birthday Cake & Cupcakes

Well, since we all survived the "end of the world" (said totally tongue-in-cheek), we had my daughter's 15th birthday party. And she wanted devil's food chocolate cake...but...I found these fabulous cupcake liners to use for her birthday, so we went with a cake AND cupcakes! All devil's food.

OK...I was going to attempt Hello Kitty for her cake, but timing & space on the cake didn't really permit. Bummer. But I attempted zebra print on the cake. I probably should have let my cake-decorating mom do the cake, but I was determined!

But I was very happy with the cupcakes. The liners are adorable & I used white buttercream icing &, since she wanted "bling" & glitter, I added edible glitter in pink, purple & green so the cupcakes would also be sparkly.

And now that we have leftovers of cake...we can still enjoy them for a few days!