Halloween Cupcakes

Last week my friend Magan and I took a cupcake decorating class at Make It Sweet Bakeshop and we had a blast! I was skeptical when I saw the adorable Halloween cupcakes we were going to be creating but our instructor, Jennifer, did a great job teaching us and it definitely was not nearly as hard as it looks! Even though we were following along with the instructor the whole time, we were able to chose our own colors and variations to our cupcakes which was really neat. Towards the end of the class they brought around mini-cupcakes that we could frost and eat while we finished decorating. They were absolutely delicious!! I'm glad I ate them there because I ended up giving all of my cupcakes away :) I showed some of the ladies I work with my cupcakes and now they want to do a Christmas cookie or cupcake decorating class so I'm super pumped!!

So excited for cupcake decorating!!

My cupcakes "before." We had confetti, strawberry, chocolate & red velvet!

My creations!

My Spooky Cupcakes!

Of course I just loved this little guy!

Me & my cupcakes

Magan & her cupcakes

Sour Cream Chocolate Cupcakes

It was my turn to bring dessert for neighbor dinner last night and I wanted to make something new...I'm tired of the same 'ol stuff. I found this recipe in my Betty Crocker recipe box...I saved it there probably over a year ago so I decided it was time to give it a try. They were easy and yummy...just a little time consuming...typical cupcakes. I decided to frost them with a pastry bag since it would take me the same amount of time as spreading on the frosting and they look prettier :) Since this made 36 cupcakes and there's only 6 of us....Justin took the rest to work since there was no way we could consume 6 a piece and luckily they were a hit!

Loved the different color cupcake wrappers

Different Focal Points

Frosting Texture

Ready for consumption!

Vacation in a Cupcake!

Last week it was my turn to make dessert for our neighbor dinner. I was feeling the post-vacation blues so I turned I turned to these Malibu Pina Colada Cupcakes with Lime Cream Cheese Frosting from my handy dandy Sweet Tooth Pinterest board! I think they came out pretty good - they were more dense than a regular cupcake but still tasty!