Here’s a compilation of the top amazing Valentines day cakes from me to you . . . with love of course!
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How to Make Homemade Hostess Cupcakes
April 16, 2016 by
Today I am showing you how to make Homemade Hostess Cupcakes. These are a take on the popular store bought brand. I’ve used a deliciously rich chocolate cake, filled it with marshmallow buttercream and dipped the cupcake in chocolate ganache.
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How to Make a Box of Chocolate Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day
January 21, 2014 by
What would you say is the most stereotypical Valentine’s day present to give? Flowers? Candy? Jewellery? CHOCOLATES? According to my research on amazon, people even give perfume! What a thoughtful gift . . . I love you but you could smell better.
Well, I thought that playing on the idea of giving chocolates as the most popular Valentine’s Day gift to give (not determined by any research!), I would make a box of chocolate CUPCAKES instead. The cupcakes look like a box of regular holiday treats, but upon closer inspection, you realize they’re so much better and they’re in cupcake form! By the way, if your “sweetheart” gives you candy, leave him. You can get that stuff at the dollarstore. I would know . . . it’s where I bought some of the ingredients for the Box of Chocolate Cupcakes I made. Note to self: don’t shop at the dollarstore and then tell people. Oops.
Do you think Valentine’s Day is overrated? Commercialized to the point of nausea? It seems as though the second that the Christmas decorations are put away, the stores are filling the shelves with pink and red Valentine paraphernalia. I guess they all have to make their quota’s, or whatever it is stores do. As do people on YouTube, which is why we have a Valentine’s day video going live in January. Oops again.
What is happening here? I think they had me at “Cupid Corn”. How I could I resist THAT!?!?
Ferrero Rocher & Nutella Cupcakes
January 10, 2014 by
I’m going to have to start out by saying that I have never really been a Nutella fan. Until we made these cupcakes, I really never understood what the fuss was about. I’d rather eat a peanut than a hazelnut. I’d rather have peanut butter and jam, than chocolate and hazelnuts. It was never in our house growing up as a kid, so I don’t think I ever really knew about it. But, when an Italian family becomes your family, you learn quickly about all things Italian. One of those things is hazelnut flavoured everything! I think I first tried a Ferraro Rocher at Paul’s mom’s house, and meh, didn’t really care for it. Apparently it had to be baked inside of a cupcake for me to really like it!
As far as Nutella went, I could never understand why bloggers were posting about it, drooling over it and giving it love I didn’t think it deserved. UNTIL I made this buttercream. This Nutella buttercream may be the absolute best thing I have ever tasted. No lie. It is rich, creamy and oozes smooth buttercream flavour. The hazelnut-chocolate taste is perfectly complimented by the sweetness of the sugar and saltiness of the butter. O.M.G. That’s how good it is. Good enough to talk in capitals.
The buttercream is one of those tastes that just the smallest amount will send you face first into the bowl. If you have strong willpower, I guarantee that it will be tested with this cupcake.
