Cupcake Wars

 
Last weekend Zach's friends were having a garage sale to raise money for a friends family. Since I didn't have that much to sell this year I decided to make cupcakes. I went a little crazy making them. I was planning on just making carrot cake, but then decided I wanted to play around a bit.  I ended up with 6 different types of cupcake flavors. 

• Mexican Hot Chocolate (spicy chocolate cake with a mexican chocolate cream cheese frosting)
• Rolo (chocolate cake with Rolo candy baked inside and a carmel drizzle with star confetti).
• Fluer de Sel (chocolate cake with carmel inside and a chocolate buttercream frosting and sea salt flakes)
• Carrot Cake (with cream cheese frosting)
• Carrot Ginger (carrot cake with ginger cream cheese frosting and crystallized ginger on top)
• Vanilla Buttercream (vanilla cake with a buttercream frosting colored teal & yellow) 

My favorite's were the Fleur de Sel & Mexcian Hot Chocolate (and the Rolo my 3rd favorite)  

I used the Magnolia's cookbook for most of the frosting except the Mexican Hot Chocolate. I found a recipe on the food network, then changed a few things. Here's what I ended up using...

Mexican Hot Chocolate Frosting:

• 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla bean extract 
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate

For the cake I used used a chocolate cake and added 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper. 

I also used the Washi tape I designed for Hambly with toothpicks and pinking shears to make quick little flags.

Comments

[heather fuentes]

washi tape + cupcakes? heavenly. <3