Good Eats: Leopard Spotted Cupcakes

Brittany — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:58:35 +0000

As Wild Week continues, I wanted to bring you a sweet treat tutorial so you can celebrate with desserts, too! After much research on Pinterest and baking blogs, I found a super cool way to get leopard spots inside of your cupcakes!

Here’s what you’ll need:
Cake mix (I used yellow cake, chocolate cake, and carrot cake mixes.)
Frostings for all of your cake mixes (I used vanilla, chocolate and cream cheese frosting.)
Wax paper

1. Bake the chocolate and carrot cakes as directed on the box. Don’t worry about these being perfect, because you’ll crumble them up into a cake ball mixture next!
2. After the cakes are baked and cooled, scoop them into separate mixing bowls and crumble. Add frosting to each by the spoonful until it is malleable enough to roll into cake balls. Place the mixtures in the freezer for about 30 minutes so that they become easier to roll.
3. Take the chocolate mixture and flatten it between two sheets of wax paper, then break into flat chunks. Roll the carrot cake mixture into tiny ball shapes – they don’t have to be perfect because no two leopard spots are ever the same!
4. Place each carrot cake ball into a chunk of the flattened chocolate mixture and press around the carrot cake ball. Leave some of the carrot cake showing through (this will create the contrasting spots).
5. Prepare your last batch of cake mix. In cupcake tins or a cake pan, alternate a layer of cake balls and a layer of batter, repeating until filled. Note that for cupcakes, you’ll only need 5-6 small cake balls in each cup.
6. Bake as directed on the box and cut down the middle (or take a bite!) to see the wild design in the center!

xoxo

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Baking 101: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Sienna — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It’s no secret that I used to be a baker. A forever passion of mine, I am reminded of those early mornings with the giant mixers and flirting with the intense heat of industrial ovens. Those days are gone, and for me, the love of whipping up extra large batches of cookies, breads and goodies has only been replaced by the joy of cooking at home!

For all of you lovely home bakers out there, I am ready to divulge one of my all-time favorite cookie recipes. Tried and true, this recipe makes delicious Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies small or jumbo!

1C. Peanut Butter (smooth or crunchy, you pick!)

1 C. Butter (softened)

3/4 C. Granulated Sugar

3/4 C. Brown Sugar

2 Eggs

2 C. Flour

1 tsp. Baking Soda

2 C. Chocolate Chip

Directions: Preheat oven to 350*. Mix together flour and baking soda. In a separate bowl, mix together peanut butter and softened butter, then beat in all the sugar. Add eggs and mix. Add flour mixture and beat until fairly smooth, then add chocolate chips.

Bake cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet until lightly brown on the bottom. Approx. 8-12 mins.

*For Jumbo Cookies: Measure out dough with a 1/2 C. measure, flatten gently on cookie sheet. Bake approx. 15 mins.

**Bonus Tip: Roll out the dough into individual cookie balls and freeze on a cookie sheet. When dough is frozen, store in a sealed bag or container in your freezer.

To bake, simply pull out how many cookies you want and defrost on a cookie sheet for 20 minutes. Bake as normal and enjoy fresh cookies whenever you please!

For a fun project this weekend, try this recipe and share your results with your friends back at LuLu*s.com!!!

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