Shea's 2nd Birthday Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

1 box of any flavor cake mix (ingriedients needed to make cake)

24 cupcake liners

24 large oreos

48 mini oreos

1 bag of White chocolate chips

red food coloring

frosting

Ingredients:1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine softened1 teaspoon vanilla

4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)

2 tablespoons milk

Cupcakes:

Preheat oven to 350.Line a cupcake pan with 24 cupcake liners. make cake batter as suggested on box. Bake as recommended on box. Pour into cupcake liners and bake.

Frosting:

In large bowl, cream shortening and butter with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy.

For the Mickey Mouses:

take a large oreo and dip it in the melted, colored white chocolate chips, let dry on wax paper. add 2 little dabs of the white chocolate chips that isn't colored. Top each cupcake with frosting and add one of the large oreo's and add 2 little oreo's for the ears.

Frosting recipe http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Buttercream-Icing

Lemon Cupcakes

These cupcakes were made for my daughters Girl Scout troop, for the Girl Scouts 100th Birthday, yesterday. They were made with the new lemon Girl Scout cookie on top. They were delicious.

Preheat oven to 350. Line a 24 cupcake tin, with cupcake wrappers

Lemon Cake mix, prepare with the box directions. (3 eggs, oil and water)

orange zest

and the juice of 1/2 an orange

yellow food coloring.

Bake for 15-20 min, or until fork comes out clean. cool and frost, with the Lucious Lemon frosting, and top with a Savannah Smiles Lemon Girl Scout cookie.

Lucious Lemon frosting: http://low-cholesterol.food.com/recipe/luscious-lemon-frosting-54666

1 teaspoon
fresh orange
rind , grated
3 tablespoons butter
3 cups
confectioners' sugar ,
sifted
2 tablespoons lemon juice and a a squeeze of an orange
1 tablespoon water
1 dash
salt

yellow food coloring

I added the orange to give it a little something different, since I didnt have a fresh lemon for the rind, and it turned out fantastic.

Tagalong cupcakes

Just in time for Girl Scout cookies.
cupcakes:
1 chocolate cake mix (with all ingredients that it suggests on the back of the box)
2 boxes of Tagalongs, or if it;s not GSC season you can use the Keebler knockoff brand)
24 cupcake liners

Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup creamy peanut butter
4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup cream

Preheat oven to 350. Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners (makes 24). add a tagalong to the bottom of each liner.
Make chocolate cake according to the package directions. and pour on top of Tagalongs, in the liners. and bake according to directions.

For frosting:
In a large bowl, beat butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Slowly beat in 1/2 of the confectioner's sugar. Mix in 1/4 cup of the cream. Beat in the remaining confectioners' sugar. If necessary, add a little more cream or milk until the frosting reaches a good spreading consistency.

Frosting recipe from: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/peanut-butter-frosting/detail.aspx

Tie Dyed Justin Bieber Cupcakes

I made these for Delaney's 7th birthday. I used a white cake mix and made it normally. Then I divided the batter and put different color food coloring in each bowl, put them in cupcake liners and baked.
I made buttercream frosting and dyed them purple. And put sprinkles on top.
The day before I took white chocolate chips and melted them and dyed pink and purple. I used a cake decorating bag and wrote out some Justin Bieber songs and other cute things. Let them dry.
After they were hard I put them on top of the frosted cupcakes.

Wilton's Buttercream Frosting:

1/2 C shortening
1/2 C (1 stick) butter, shoftened
1 tsp vanilla
4 C confectioners sugar
2 tbs milk

confetti cheesecake cupcakes with cake batter frosting

From: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=227008443995265
INGREDIENTS
Confetti (or Funfetti) cake batter, use your favorite homemade or boxed version)8 oz package cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 and line 24 muffin tins with liners. Spoon cake batter into each tin until it is about 1/2 full. In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese, egg, sugar and vanilla on medium speed until smooth. Spoon one spoonful over the top of each cupcake. Bake for about 15 minutes or until set.

Cake Batter Cream Cheese Frosting:
1 stick salted butter, softened
8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon Baker's Mystery Flavor (you could omit this, but I really liked the baked flavor it adds)
3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup white cake mix (MIX--NOT BATTER)

In the bowl of a mixer, beat butter, cream cheese and extract(s) on medium speed until smooth. Add powdered sugar and cake mix and beat on low until just combined. Increase speed to medium-high and beat for 2 minutes. If frosting is too thick, mix in a bit of heavy ix in a bit of heavy cream or milk until desired consistency is reached. Once cupcakes are cool, frost generously. And add sprinkles.