Happy birthday & ENGAGEMENT to ME!!!

mississippi mud cupcakes

I'M ENGAAAAAGED!!!! After 3 long years of patient & silent waiting...ok maybe I wasn't always so patient or silent...but Will finally popped the question! It was the sweetest thing, and I was so surprised. Will got up with Claire and told me I could sleep in, and then a few minutes later Claire was standing by the side of my bed shoving the ring in my face saying, "mommy, will you marry daddy?" I was in shock (Will swears I looked scared) and I turned around to Will who was sitting on the bed next to me. He very sweetly took my hand & asked me to marry him, and then I very sweetly demanded that he get down on his knee and ask me again...and then I said yes!!!

He proposed 2 days before my birthday, so I've had an awesome couple of days celebrating my birthday and engagement. Yesterday my girlfriends and I got pedicures, went wedding dress shopping, and had a delicious dinner at Scotty Browns followed by some scrumptious cupcakes made my yours truly. I went with another Confessions of a Cookbook Queen recipe. I found this recipe a few weeks ago when a friend recommended I make Mississippi Mud cupcakes. I had never heard of Mississippi Mud cake, but apparently it's a pretty big deal on the East coast. I found a few different recipes, but this one was the best. I made half or them with pecans on top, and half w/ an oreo cookie at the bottom of each cupcake & oreo crumbles on top. Both variations were delish! I don't have any leftover to share, but I will definitely be making these again.

mississippi mud cupcakes w/ pecans

mississippi mud w/ oreos

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Cap'n Crunch Cupcakes w/ Peanut Butter Marshmallow Frosting

I know I've been kind of a slacking with my blog posts lately, but I promise I've been busy baking cupcakes. Last week I baked a batch of chocolate mini cupcakes w/ pink cream cheese frosting for a baby shower. I made a few of them look like baby rattles by inserting a lollipop stick w/ a gumdrop attached to the bottom and adding a pink bow around the middle. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures, but you can only imagine how adorable they were!

I also baked a batch of chocolate raspberry cupcakes w/ raspberry buttercream frosting for one of my co-workers who needed them for a potluck. Again, no pictures, but I recently made chocolate raspberry cupcakes w/ a swiss meringue buttercream frosting and they looked very similar.



chocolate raspberry cupcakes
w/ swiss meringue buttercream frosting

My last post was about a new blog I stumbled upon called Confessions of a Cookbook Queen. Yesterday I decided to try out one of her cupcake recipes. I made Cap'n Crunch cupcakes w/ peanut butter marshmallow frosting. Words cannot express how delicious they were. The frosting is very similar to the frosting I use when I make peanut butter high hats, but those are dipped in melted chocolate. The peanut butter marshmallow frosting on its own is so light and fluffy it melts in your mouth. I surprisingly have a few left over and if I don't eat them all while I'm home today I will donate them to trivia night tonight at Boston's. If you don't have plans this evening get yourself over to Boston's at 8pm for happy hour, trivia, and a chance to win some of these yummy cap'n crunch cupcakes!



cap'n crunch cupcakes
w/ peanut butter marshmallow frosting

Confessions of a Cookbook Queen

I was browsing the web today for some fun Mother's Day cupcake ideas and I stumbled upon this blog called Confessions of a Cookbook Queen. Not only do the recipes look mouthwatering, her stories are hilarious! I spent just as much time LOLing as I did drooling on my keyboard. I can't wait to try out some of her cupcake recipes. I especially can't wait to make these! I don't care if Will thinks they taste like chocolate covered toothpaste, peppermint patties are the best!

Chocolate Salted-Caramel Cupcakes

Will's sister-in-law hired me to bake cupcakes for a CAbi party she's throwing tomorrow afternoon, and she gave me free reign so I decided to try out a chocolate salted-caramel cupcake recipe that caught my eye a while back. I had one extra so I cut it in half to share with Will, but if he doesn't get home from work soon it might accidentally disappear. I've never made caramel before so I was worried I was going to mess it up, but it turned out to be quite delicious. A little tip for first time caramel makers...no matter how tempting it looks, don't dip your finger into the pot of boiling hot caramel to do a taste test. It will burn your finger, and then your tongue. I won't have any of these cupcakes left over to share, so until I make them again here is a step by step guide for how to make your own chocolate salted-caramel cupcakes :-)

step 1: bake delicious chocolate cupcakes

step 2: fill cupcakes w/ caramel
& a pinch of sea salt

step 3: top w/ dark chocolate frosting
& a pinch of sea salt

step 4: enjoy



Berry Yummy Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes

It's Tuesday so you know what that means...Trivia Night at Boston's! I've been donating cupcakes to give away to the 3rd place trivia winners the past few weeks and today I whipped up a batch of raspberry filled devil's food cupcakes that are sure to make the 3rd place team feel like they came in first! My obvious goal in donating cupcakes to trivia night is to spread the word about Cupcake Me Away and bring in some new customers. I haven't received any orders from trivia night cupcake winners yet, but I am still getting lots of practice with new cupcake & frosting recipes so I'd like to think I'm winning too. If you'd like to try a chocolate raspberry cupcake come to Boston's tonight. I'll be there from 8-10!

devil's food cupcakes w/ raspberry filling
& raspberry meringue buttercream frosting

Snickerdoodle Dandy

snickerdoodle cupcakes

I finally got enough of my kitchen unpacked to bake some cupcakes last night. It was so exciting to be able to set my cooling racks on the counter (as opposed to the kitchen table where I had to put them in my apt) and even more exciting to be able to spread the 3 cooling racks out on the counter to frost the cupcakes (instead of frosting them one rack at a time and stacking the next rack on top...which I had to do in my tiny apt). We still have a lot of work to do in the new house, but everyday it's feeling more and more like home. I can't wait to have all our boxes unpacked, pictures up on the wall, and every little knick-nack in place...but for now I'm happy with snickerdoodle cupcakes on my counter!

meringue frosting dusted w/cinnamon & sugar