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April Fools’ Day Meatloaf Cupcakes with Mashed Potatoes Frosting

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by snackingkitchen in Allrecipes.com, Beef, Cupcakes, Holidays, Potatoes, Video

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Happy April Fools’ Day.  Have you been fooled today yet?  The day is still young.  While there are no announcements of engagement, pregnancy, or moving to Australia in this post (who am I kidding?), I am going to share with you this April Fools’ Day recipe and video I got to style for Allrecipes.com ~ Meatloaf Cupcakes with Mashed Potatoes Frosting.  These are so believable, you might just fool your friends and family at dinner.  Better yet, they are also delicious.

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For the frosting, I chose to color the mashed potatoes with red and green food coloring.  Feel free to pick your own colors and try going with natural colors, using beet and spinach juice (or even blueberry juice).  Add as much color as your wish to achieve desired shade, but don’t go too wild, making sure the color is still frosting-believable.

When it came to decorating, I designed Vanilla Raspberry cupcakes with natural mashed potatoes and cherry tomatoes, Strawberry Shortcake with red mashed potatoes and Parmesan cheese, and Mint Chocolate with green mashed potatoes and bacon bits.  What combinations will you come up with?

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Be sure to check out this video to see how to make the Meatloaf Cupcakes with Mashed Potatoes Frosting: http://allrecipes.com/video/4506/meatloaf-cupcakes/detail.aspx

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Valentine’s Sweetheart Cupcakes – Recipe & Video

14 Friday Feb 2014

Posted by snackingkitchen in Allrecipes.com, Baking, Cupcakes, Holidays, Video

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Happy Valentine’s Day.  I hope that we all have the love in our lives worth of appreciating and celebrating.  Whether it’s the love of the parents, siblings, friends, or platonic.  Let’s wish someone in your life happy love day.

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And with that, how about a cupcake?  I worked on this recipe video for Allrecipes.com and today is the perfect day for sharing!  With the recipe, I would recommend using a regular yellow cake (instead of white), or your own from-scratch recipe.  The layering of colors is not as intimidating as it might look or sound – just take your time, and be careful of not inserting too much air into the cupcakes.

These are the perfect fun and decorative cupcakes to make for any holidays – just change the color scheme and you have Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day and Easter cupcakes at your disposal.

Recipe: Sweetheart Cucpakes

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Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

18 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by snackingkitchen in Cupcakes, Dessert, Holidays, Recipe

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carrot cake cupcake recipe

It’s hard to believe that my young brother just turned 25 years old!  Time flies, people grow up, mature, and become adults that you are proud to call your friend.

For his birthday, my brother requested Carrot Cake Cupcakes with raisins and walnuts.  I took this opportunity to use my wonderful orange KitchenAid and bake something delicious for the whole family to enjoy.  For the recipe, I adapted Ina Garten’s carrot cake cupcakes.  Modifications: 12 cupcake yield, reduction of sugar and oil, addition of baking powder, change in baking directions, toasted walnuts.  The frosting was cut in half and dressed with clementine zest.

I must admit, I was rather nervous waiting for the cupcakes to finish baking and once I removed them from the oven, my fears did not diminish.  But!  These were truly fantastic – moist, just sweet enough, with a wonderful texture variance of raisins and crunchy nuts.  The frosting with the addition of clementine zest played nicely along, lending just enough sweetness and decadence.

Ingredients

3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon
3/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/5 cups grated carrots (I used organic, with skin on, grated in a food processor)
1/2 cups raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, lightly toasted
1 tablespoons flour

For the frosting:
8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
8 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
zest of 1 clementine or orange

Directions

1.  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Line 12-cup cupcake pan with liners and lightly grease with cooking spray.

2.  Beat together sugar, oil and vanilla until evenly incorporated.  Beat in one egg at a time.

3.  Sift together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

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4.  Mix carrots, raisins and walnuts with 1 tablespoon of flour.  This will keep the mix-ins evenly incorporated with the cupcake batter.

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5.  Add half of the dry ingredients to the sugar-oil-egg mixture and mix just until blended.  Blend in carrots, raisins and walnuts and then add the rest of the dry ingredients.

6.  Divide the batter evenly among the prepared cups.

7.  Bake in the preheated oven for 30-40 minutes until the tops of the cupcakes are medium-brown and the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.  Cool completely on the wire rack.  I removed the paper from cupcakes right before frosting.

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8,  For the frosting, beat together cream cheese, butter and vanilla.  Gradually beat in confectioners’ sugar (you might want to sift if first so it incorporates easier).  Once the frosting is of your desired consistency and sweetness (you can add more sugar), fold in clementine zest.  Frost cupcakes as desired.  I fit a piping bag with a star tip and filled it with frosting, trying a few different designs when it came to decorating.

carrot cake cupcake recipe

If the frosting gets too soft, you can refrigerate it briefly.  I chilled the cupcakes for an hour before serving to allow the frosting to set up slightly.  These would be beautiful garnished with candied carrots or toasted walnuts.  Mine came garnished with candles and a “happy birthday!” song.

By the time the cupcakes were baked, cooled and frosted, it was too dark to take any decent photos.  Sadly, I took a few with my phone on the bathroom floor.  The good news, there are a few cupcakes safely tucked in inside the refrigerator – I will attempt to take photos tomorrow!  Sweet wishes.

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