The Perfect Cupcake

The Perfect Cupcake

1 pkg. cake mix (choc. or white)

1 cup sour cream

4 eggs

3/4 cup oil

3/4 cup water

1 pkg. small dry pudding mix (choc. or vanilla)

Mix all the ingredients together until well blended. I use muffin liners, but I usually spray them with Vegalene, just to make sure the cupcakes slide out easily. Fill each muffin cup 2/3rds of the way full. Bake at 350 for 15-16 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

This recipe will yield the yummiest, moistest, perfect shaped and most beautiful cupcake you have ever seen! I topped these with a vanilla buttercream frosting. Oooh, so delicious.

Spaghetti & Meatball Cupcakes

I think these are pretty cute. My cute neighbor, Ashley, who is only 13 made them for a family party a few weeks ago. She brought a plate of them over to us and I thought it was such a cute idea.

They dyed the white frosting with yellow food coloring and some how cocoa powder was involved. Not sure on that detail. But you just take the frosting and swirl it all crazy over the top. Then you add spoonfuls of strawberry jam for your sauce. Top with a whopper and grate a little white chocolate on top for Parmesan cheese!

So cute. The girl's got talent!

Pumpkin Brownies

Got this recipe from Crystal over at Everyday Food Storage. They are more like pumpkin cake than brownies, I think, but they were really good! Give them a try!

Pumpkin Brownies

1 (16 oz.) can pumpkin

4 eggs (1/4 C. dry egg powder + 1/2 C. water)

3/4 C. vegetable oil (or 3/4 C. white bean puree)

2 t. vanilla

2 C. whole wheat flour

2 C. sugar

1 T. pumpkin pie spice

2 t. ground cinnamon

2 t. baking powder

1/2 t. salt

Mix wet ingredients (including the water needed for your powdered eggs but not the dry egg powder…remember you DON’T need to mix these before adding to your recipes) Mix dry ingredients with wet ingredients. Pour into 9×13 pan and bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Allow to cool and frost with cream cheese frosting or dollup cinnamon whipped topping.

Flip Flop Birthday Cake

This is the cake I made for the birthday party. I am pretty tickled with the finished product. It was pretty simple and I am not a cake decorator. I did use a generic cake mix the first try and it fell apart to crumbs so I went and bought a Betty Crocker cake mix and it turned out marvelous.

I got the instructions here at the Betty Crocker website. It even has a template for you to print out to get the right shape for the flip flops. My husband and I worked together on it and had a great time. BayLee helped me put the candies on and I wish I could have found other colors of fruit by the foot but this just had to work.

BayLee was happy and that is what matters. HA watch out Martha!!!!

My Rainbow Cupcakes!

So I made the rainbow cupcakes. I didn't actually do the recipe that used the sprite and cake mix, although that is something I will be trying. I don't have any Sprite in my house today so I just used, my Alison's Pantry Creme Cake Mix. This was so easy, and I thought it would be time consuming. HA!! I am in love with this idea. I think this will be our new birthday cake at our house, because it really is cool to look at. What a fun new tradition! The kids thought it was great fun and loved it.

Fried Ice Cream

If you haven't noticed Mandee and I both like to cook. I think there will be lot's of recipes on this blog, but we also do craft. We are working on posting a few easy and fun craft idea's in the next week or so! Enjoy and please leave comments. We would love to know what you think!!!

This is the yummiest dessert I have ever had. I can't take credit for it, because I got it from my friend Jayma. She made this for a fireside that we did at church and it was divine. I made this up for my mother-in-law's birthday party the other night and everyone loved it. It's so easy to make and a good recipe for a crowd.

Fried Ice Cream

2 cubes butter

2 cups brown sugar

4 cups rice crispies

2 cups walnuts, chopped

2 cups coconut

1 gallon vanilla ice cream

Melt butter, mix with sugar, add all other dry ingredients, mix well. Press 2/3 of mixture in the bottom of the bar pan. Slice ice cream and layer on top of mixture. Add remaining mixture on top of ice cream. Freeze. Cut into squares and top with ice cream toppings.

We use strawberry, chocolate and Carmel toppings to put on top of this. The Carmel is divine with it. We let everyone choose their own toppings. I should have gotten some pictures of it when it was ready to serve, but I was to worried about eating it, because it is so good!!! It makes a ton so it's a good chance you will have left overs.

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Finished Project
Happiness is licking the bowl. I was trying to be sneaky in the kitchen by keeping the bowl to myself but after I licked the spoon two times I felt really guilty. So I called for them to finish the job. It won't be to many years before they won't be around to lick the bowl. They liked the bowl of stuff but weren't too keen on the cake. Silly kids.

1 box devils food cake mix

caramel topping

Heath candy bars(Crushed up)
chocolate cool-whip

Bake cake according to directions. Let cool for a few minutes. Poke holes with fork all over the cake. Drizzle caramel over top. so it starts to melt into the cake. Put it in the fridge to completely cool. Add cool whip to top of cake and top with heath candy bar.