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.

What We’ve Been Working On

Strawberry Hand Pie Step by Step in Pictures Recipe

Strawberry hand pies recipe photo recipe

1/3 fresh strawberries diced

use real unsalted butter in dough #oldfashionisbetter

make dough with ice water, butter and all purpose flour

cut dough in half, place one half in plastic wrap and refrigerate while you roll out and cut this dough in circles. i use a glass (old fashioned) to cut out my dough

put dough in saran wrap and place in fridge for at least an hour. i love the strawberry saran wrap. it's pretty

laid cut out crust on waxed paper

Two dollops of strawberry mixture on top of bottom layer crust

Fresh out the oven, about to removed to cooling rack

2011 National Read a Book Day Shana Burton’s Catt Chasin

Today, September 6, 2011 is National Read a Book Day. The holiday is designed to encourage us to take time from our busy lives and relax with a great book. This year we have selected Shana Burton’s Catt Chasin’(Urban Books) as our 2011 Read a Book Day Pick.

Why did we choose this book?

Catt Chasin’ the story of Jamal Ford. He has narrowed his love life down to a science through the creation of his 30-Day Dating Plan, a guide intended to weed out the drama queens, gold-diggers, and baby mamas from his ideal: a part goddess, part sex kitten, and part Stepford Wife mate. The shallow, fun-loving 33-year-old knows he’s one of Charlotte, North Carolina’s most eligible bachelors, and he won’t settle for anything less than the trophy wife of his dreams.Catherine “Catt” Cason has never let anything slow her down. The brilliant chemist takes being labeled “the cute fat girl” in stride as she fast-tracks her way to a top position with her cosmetic company, Telegenic. While she would enjoy the love of a good man, Catt refuses to risk heartbreak again just to have a warm body at her side. Besides, why settle for the love of an earthly man when she is the fiancée of Christ?

When Jamal is paired with Catt to launch a new product for work, it’s loathe at first sight. She thinks he’s arrogant and incompetent; he thinks she’s a sanctimonious kill-joy. However, what each believes they want may not be what God knows they need. In this game of love, rules don’t exist, and no heart is safe. The Lord is speaking, but will they be too caught up in their own agendas to listen?

Doesn’t the sound like fun?

We will be talking about the book all September and chatting with the author, Shana Burton, too.

Would you like to join us?

To join us is an easy three step process:

1. Join us all month long on Facebook by clicking here (http://on.fb.me/bookmonth).
2. If you do not own a copy, click here to purchase one (http://amzn.to/cattchase )
3. Share http://amzn.to/cattchase with your friends on Facebook or Twitter/

 

Once you’re done, please check in here. Our Goal is to get 50 readers reading Shana Burton Catt Chasin on September 6 and throughout the month. That’s not a Hard Goal. Right?!

Thanks for participating!