Instagram Again Saturday - Cupcakes

The Hubs and I celebrated our birthdays last weekend with a pub crawl the ended with our favorite cupcakes. Coincidentally, a year ago today they opened a shop in Lakewood. Hooray for cupcakes!

Instagram from last year -

Food porn in Lakewood. Popcorn, cupcake and cotton candy Nirvana @CampbellsSweets

A photo posted by Mary Johnson (@mryjhnsn) on Nov 11, 2013 at 9:53am PST

Instagram from this week -

Because You Want to Make Stuffed Cookie Cupcakes

For my son's first communion, I made well over 100 cupcakes and several different kinds. I made a plain vanilla, a Kit Kat* one, a dark chocolate one, a half and half one, an Oreo* one and some others that I don't remember.

The one that I was looking most forward to was the Oreo cookie cupcakes. This recipe is all over Pinterest and I'll be damned if I was not going to attempt to make it as well, it looks so easy!

Split an Oreo in half, carefully, put the Oreo half with the cream in the bottom of the cupcake wrapper, crush a bunch of Oreos and mix in vanilla cupcake batter and spoon on top of the half of the Oreo, bake, frost and decorate with the top of the Oreo cookie in the frosting. Easy, right?

After making about 75 cupcakes, I was starting to get tired and when it came time to make the Oreo cookie cupcakes, I forgot to add butter! Forgot. to. add. butter!

Luckily, they turned out fine and no one knew but me but of course I wanted to make them again. The opportunity came when my son wanted chocolate cake for his birthday. Since we were not going to be home for the birthday party I really did not want to make a cake and I asked him if he wanted the Oreo cupcakes instead; of course he said yes!

The cupcake mix is pretty basic and I adapted** it from one I found on Pinterest.

1 boxed cake mix
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter melted butter
3 large eggs
Bake 350 degrees for 19 minutes

**I was out of butter so I used butter flavored Crisco* and it made 18 cupcakes. The batter is very thick!

For the frosting I thought the Cool Whip frosting* would be close to the cream filling in Oreos and it was easy to pipe it onto the tops of the cupcakes when they cooled.

Our local Giant Eagle* sold me two cupcake holders from the bakery department for $.30 and I put the cupcakes in the container before I frosted them. Once they were frosted I stuck the tops of the Oreos into the top of the cupcakes, deep into the frosting and off to the party we went.

Since the Cool Whip frosting is essentially just flavored whipped cream I advise that you keep them refrigerated up until you have to eat them.

Baby girl wanted to help with the cupcakes and she did a fantastic job putting the liners in the tin, splitting the Oreos in half and putting them in the cupcake holders. Such an easy way to get her involved in big brother’s birthday that was not terribly messy. She even went to the party in the dress she was helping me bake in because she did not get messy. This rarely happens when cooking together.

Why call them "Stuffed Cookie" cupcakes?  Because the cookie is stuffed with a cupcake!

*This is not a sponsored post.

How to Eat a (@MobileCupcakery) Cupcake.

Two weeks ago I checked out Food Truck Friday at the Free Stamp and one of my co-workers got a cupcake from Mobile Cupcakery.  As much as I wanted one, I didn't get one but I could not resist this past Friday and splurged on their Pumpkin Spiced Cupcake with Cream Cheese Frosting dusted with Cinnamon.

As I sat at work contemplating how I would enjoy it I remembered something I saw on pinterest, and now,  thanks to pinterest, I can now eat a cupcake properly.

It has also occurred to me that this would be the perfect way to eat one of their cupcakes while standing in line waiting for my food from one of the food trucks.

This damn cupcake was ridiculously good, even if it seemed a little overpriced for the size.   My first bite I just let sit on my tongue awhile and let my taste buds remember the taste.  The second and third went by way to fast and I had to stop so I could savor the last of the cupcake.  The cupcake was so delicious I am currently stalking their Facebook page to find out where they will be next to get my cupcake fix.

How do you eat your cupcake?

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— MryJhnsn (@mryjhnsn) October 28, 2012

Cakes and Cupcakes

I am certain that everyone is now officially sick of my bebe's birthday but...  It is Tasty Tuesday and let's face it the cakes and cupcakes I have had this past week are worth blogging about again so with out further ado...  Here are some pictures.