Strawberry Daiquiri Cupcakes & Pic How To

INGREDIENTS

• 2 teaspoons grated lime peel
• 2 tablespoons fresh line juice
• 2 tablespoons bacardi limon rum
• 1 box strawberry supreme cake mix
• 3 large eggs
• 6 fresh strawberries with caps, quartered (optional)
• 1/2 cup canola oil
  
  Parrot Bay Strawberry Daiquiri for bathing the cupcakes ad including in the icing
  

after cupcakes cool inject then with rum

ICING

• ½ cup frozen whole strawberries, thawed
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, firm and slightly cold
• pinch of coarse salt
• 1/2 cup Parrot Bay Strawberry Daiquiri
• 3 ½ cups powdered sugar, sifted
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• red food coloring

Easter Cupcakes Best Of

 

Tomorrow I’m making Easter Cupcakes, but I do not have time to get creative. My niece is one years old and my daughter is a tween, who loves anything Hunger Games, so I’m keeping it simple this year with a butter cupcake, buttercream frosting and either a blue peep or blue M & Ms on top. Will load the pic up tomorrow. In the meantime, these are my faves I’ve found online. You can share your faves with me on Pinterest at http://pinterest.com/deestewart/

St. Patrick Day Boozy Cupcakes & Pots of Gold

We don’t have a sweet tooth this St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Girlee had stomach flu this week and I’m on bedrest. However, for my cupcake buds here are three cupcakes I’ve seen across the cupcakaverse. Also follow us on Twitter we have a design board up there at http://pinterest.com/deestewart/cupcake-south-2012-ideas-board/

These cupcakes look interesting although I don’t drink. I thought about doing some Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mints with Green Velvet Icing, but maybe by Saturday. If we do them, I will load the pics up here and on pinterest.

The above cupcakes are from Pink Martinis and Pearls. It so pretty. The cupcake is called St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes with Bailey’s Irish Cream, Frangelico and Crème de Cacao Buttercream Icing. Here’s the recipe link.

 

The above cupcake is an Irish Car Bomb. Click this link for the recipe.

The Culinary Chronicles Chocolate Stout with Irish Cream Cupcakes (recipe here)

Tomorrow, if I don’t forget I will post up some child friendly cupcakes . The kind I eat. lol

Mardi Gras Cupcakes

It’s Fat Tuesday here at Cupcake South, but we’re not baking. No. We’re getting our sweets on. While we’re out sampling our local eateries. Here are some pics we’ve pulled of Mardi Gras Cupcakes.

These beauties are from Couture Cakes by Angel.

 

An old classic, Sweet E’s Chocolate Masquerade Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes with WHITE Chocolate Amaretto Frosting: Christmas Cupcake

This is the cupcake we’re making this Christmas. Thank you Southern Living for the Recipe

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 (1-oz.) bottle red liquid food coloring
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Preparation

1. 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Stir in food coloring and vanilla until blended.
2. 2. Combine flour, cocoa, and salt. Stir together buttermilk, vinegar, and baking soda in a 4-cup liquid measuring cup. (Mixture will bubble.) Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Place 24 paper baking cups in 2 (12-cup) muffin pans; spoon batter into cups, filling three-fourths full.
3. 3. Bake at 350° for 18 to 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from pans to wire racks, and let cool completely (about 45 minutes).
4. 4. Pipe frosting onto cupcakes. Garnish, if desired.

Printable Snowflake Stencil for White Chocolate Snowflake

Frosting Ingredients

• 2 (4-oz.) white chocolate baking bars
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 6 cups powdered sugar, divided
• 1/4 cup almond liqueur

Preparation

1. Break white chocolate baking bars into pieces. Melt white chocolate and cream in a microwave-safe bowl at MEDIUM (50% power) 1 minute or until melted and smooth, stirring at 30-second intervals. (Do not overheat.) Let cool to room temperature (about 30 minutes). Beat butter and 1 cup powdered sugar at low speed with an electric mixer until blended. Add 5 cups powdered sugar alternately with almond liqueur, beating at low speed until blended after each addition. Add white chocolate mixture; beat at medium speed until spreading consistency.

4 Cute Halloween Cupcakes to Copy

Happy Halloween!

We at Cupcake South have been toiling around with Halloween cupcake ideas. Had no ideas. Everything was..um… nasty to us (eyeballs, etc.) I’m sorry. We’re girly girls over here. We wanted something pretty, romantic Halloweenish. Can’t Halloween also have pretty cakes? So we searched the blogosphere and look what we found.!!

The Cake Blog’s Pudgy Mummy. Cute and Mouth Watering. Yum!

The chocolate pumpkin cupcake above is from Good Life Eats.

from Family Spice Blog These are cute!

Baking Junkie’s Halloween Oreo Cupcakes. They look yummy. This may be our winner tonight.

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