Woot! I had a good excuse to make more
cupcakes! We're had some family over for
an Independence Day party and of course, I MUST bake cupcakes!
The Problem: I was entranced by red, white, & blue
star shaped sprinkles when I was at Country Kitchen shopping for the wedding
cupcake supplies. They forced me to put
them in my basket. And so did the
matching cupcake liners.
Don't you hate when
inanimate objects mess with you? Bait
you? Call out to you??? (oh my)
Anyway, ever since
these two objects jumped into my shopping basket, I've been dreaming of swirls
of fluffy, white frosting with red, white, & blue stars scattered
strategically on top. But what kind of
cupcake? Vanilla? Mayybee …
Confetti? Naw, too much going on
with all those sprinkles.
Chocolate? Hmmm …
On the other hand,
for a 4th of July picnic-party-hoopla, berries are practically a requirement
AND as a plus, berries do cooperate with the theme by being red and blue. I could make the berry cupcakes again. But the frosting is pink and talk about
CLASH! I suppose I could make the
frosting become red, but then the star sprinkles wouldn't look good.
The Solution:
Make the Carrot
Cupcakes with the white cream cheese frosting in the patriotic cupcake liners
with the star sprinkles … AND … something summery … like root beer float
cupcakes!
Who says I don't
have a cupcake problem???
Sadly, I was really
disappointed in the root beer float cupcakes.
They were ok, but considering that the last cupcakes I made were
proclaimed pretty much worldwide as being PERFECT (aka HEAVENLY) they probably
didn't stand much of a chance.
I used the recipe
from the Better Homes & Gardens magazine, "Cupcakes 150 Sweet
Recipes". It needs some serious
tweaking. The cake did have a root beer
flavor, but the texture was dense and dry.
The frosting was supposed to have a vanilla ice cream flavor - it did
not. But they were edible and cute and
everyone liked them.
So now I have two
challenges: First, I used my last box of
Carrot Cake mix so I've got to come up with a knock out carrot cake
recipe. Second, I love the idea of the
root beer float cupcakes so I'm going to FIX IT!
