Minion Cupcakes!

Minions are the rage these days... blame it on the recently released Minion movie!  Even McDonald's is into it - their happy meal features a minion toy!

So here's our "contribution" -

They are really just our signature chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and topped with minion toppers!

Mocha Latte

Mocha cupcakes plus whipped cream and cocoa...

equals one delicious treat!

This is inspired by my favorite coffee drink!

Choco Almond Cupcakes

A new chocolate cupcake variant!  Our super yummy chocolate fudge cupcake frosted with almond whipped cream and garnished with almond slivers and grated chocolate.

Yum!

Strawberry Short(cup)cake

This is our cupcake version of a strawberry shortcake!

Of course we use real strawberries... which means this is a limited offering.

Once strawberry season ends, we'll have to wait until next year!

Extreme Cookie Butter Cupcakes

Cookie butter is all the rage even in our part of the world.  It used to be difficult to find (and costly too) but these days, certain supermarkets already carry them.  The one I bought was Biscoff brand.

For some reason, the little girl (or hubby) was not so fond of it, preferring instead a homemade one.  So I had almost the whole bottle to use up... I decided on cookie butter cupcakes, stuffed with cookie butter and frosted with cookie butter frosting!  How's that for a cookie butter overload?!

I didn't have a recipe for cookie butter cupcakes, though.  What I did was use my go-to peanut butter cupcake recipe and simply swapped the peanut butter with the cookie butter!

Here they are just before going into the oven...

Right out of the oven -

Frosted with cookie butter buttercream -

The cross-section of the cupcake -

Guess what?  The cupcakes were a big hit! 

Wheeee!

Queen's Favorite

It is wonder that these cupcakes made an appearance only now... seeing as I love peanut butter!  But I guess my only excuse is that I often indulged by eating peanut butter... cookies!

What's even more amazing is the overwhelmingly wonderful response by everyone who took a bite out of these cupcakes!!!

The tops look like cookies, right?

The dark chocolate buttercream is the perfect frosting to complement the cupcake!!!

Super duper yummy!!!

I could eat this the whole day!

Vanilla Buttermilk Cupcakes

I have about 2 liters of buttermilk to use up.  I've done buttermilk pancakes and buttermilk scrambled eggs.  Now it's vanilla buttermilk cupcakes... with chocolate chips and frosted with peanut butter frosting.

I've always considered my vanilla cupcake recipe to be the best, and never thought that I could find one that I could like more.  But this vanilla buttermilk cupcake is really better!  The texture is better, and the taste superb! 

The downside?  This cupcake is more expensive to make because of the buttermilk.

Chocolate Fluffernutter Cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes, stuffed with peanut butter filling and frosted with marshmallow buttercream!!!

A peek at the cupcake and the filling...

Now topped with minions...

Happy Birthday friend M!

Mmmmmm....

Angels & Demons Cupcakes

What better way could these cupcakes be named for being sinful and heavenly at the same time?

Chocolate Cupcakes, filled with custard cream and frosted with Triple Chocolate Ganache!

Here's a box of 6...

A peek inside...

Super duper delicious!

Vanilla Cupcakes, with Mild Strawberry Buttercream

When the little girl is bored, she gets really "makulit".  When I get bored, I read... or go to the kitchen.

This time, I was craving vanilla cupcakes.  But I didn't want any ordinary vanilla cupcakes... I wanted one with a hint of... strawberry... not in the cupcake but in the frosting...

So here are my cupcakes out of the oven... I think they look gorgeous!

And here's the cupcakes with vanilla buttercream with a hint of strawberry... (though you wouldn't know by seeing it because the frosting looks a bit orange-y but trust me I loved the hint... yes, just a hint... of strawberry in the icing!)

Yummmmyyyy!

Banana, Chocolate Chips and Peanut Butter!!!

I can't believe that I have not posted this all-time favorite!

Our banana choco chip cake transformed into a cupcake, with Peanut Butter Frosting!

This is how it looks in a box (which may be mint green or purple in color)...

A look at the cupcake, on the bottom left portion, without frosting...

And, finally, a look at the cross section...

Is it any wonder that this is a best seller???

Disney Princess and Castle Cake

Last year, the little girl made her birthday wishes known... castle and Disney princess...

I was stumped about the castle bit, until a dear friend pointed me in the direction of a cut-out castle (and I was all prepared to do it too!).  Then a "guardian angel" gave a real (toy) Disney castle ("playhouse") last Christmas and so... all I had to do was plop the whole thing on top of cake and decoratively arrange the princess figurines!

Presenting... B's 5th birthday cake!

The kids in school were so enamored by the cake!

Anyway, here are the cupcakes, which the little girl said should be Disney princess too, and pink...

And, of course, since it wasn't appropriate for boys to have princess cupcakes... so they got Mickey Mouse instead...

I was the star that day... because I made her wish come true!

Carrot Baby

Imagine our carrot cake as a cupcake...

Yummmmyyyy!

Rowie, a Prettier Version

Chocolate and Vanilla Marbled Cupcake with Peanut Butter Frosting...

I think the marbling is quite beautiful!

:)

Hummingbird Cupcakes, with Super Secret Buttercream

A variation of these Hummingbird Cupcakes... this time not with salted caramel but with a "secret" flavor buttercream!

Very yummy!

Triple Ultimate Ube Cupcakes

We already have an ultimate ube cupcake which has a double dose of ube.  But this Triple Ultimate Ube Cupcake takes it to a higher level!
 
This particular combination was a special request.  The requirement?  A whole bottle of ube halaya to be used up!  So here's THE ultimate ube cupcake - with a TRIPLE dose!

Ube cupcake stuffed with ube halaya, then frosted with ube halaya buttercream!

How the cupcake looks inside -

It was a massive hit!  There's been a lot of inquiries, in fact!

We love it!

Mochaccino

Mocha is another favorite flavor.  Mocha, as Wikipedia explains, could refer to a coffee drink or a coffee bean (amongst others).  Mocha, as a flavor, however, is often thought of as a mix of coffee and chocolate flavors.  Mochaccino is a coffee drink with chocolate.

MaBelle's version is a mocha cupcake, frosted with coffee (or mocha, or chocolate) buttercream, with a sprinkling of cocoa (and cinnamon, optional), topped with a coffee bean (for decoration purposes only).

The cupcakes are yummy (of course!).  Although personally, I think the coffee flavor overpowers the chocolate a bit.  Then again, mocha is coffee with chocolate, not the other way around... ...

Ultimate Ube Cupcakes

Ube is my favorite flavor!  Especially when it's an ube chiffon cake.  It took me a while to make an ube cupcake because I'd been used to the light and airy ube cake that the heavier-type cupcake was strange to me.  Until my repeated experimentation finally resulted in one that I was ok with... and while my "traditional" frosting for ube is a whipped cream (sometimes with macapuno), for this one I wanted a super-duper ube umph.  So this ube cupcake is frosted with ube halaya buttercream!  And I have decided to call them "Ultimate Ube" because the double ube - cake AND frosting!

Up close and personal...

(see the ube bits?)

Even more personal...

This really is my all time favorite!!!

Frost

I've often admitted it - I am NOT a fan of chocolate. I don't hate it, it's just that I don't really crave it or look for it.  In fact, when I was (way, way) younger and had suitors who gave boxes of chocolate, it was my younger brother who benefited!

Oh well.

But, seeing as there are a lot of chocoholics out there (who keep asking for chocolate goodies...) here's another one... of the white variety.

As usual, I used my go-to (absolute favorite) vanilla cupcake recipe and made a few (little) changes by adding melted white chocolate.

The big (and happy) surprise?  They were perfect!!!  If I would "fall in love" with any chocolate cupcake, this would be it!!!

See them out of the oven...

With gorgeous white chocolate buttercream...

The cupcakes were more than vanilla!  They had a subtle hint of white chocolate, not overpowering, with exactly the right flavor!  And the buttercream?  Wow, heavenly!!!

Yummmmmmm... mmmm... mmmm...

Rowie

This cupcake is named after the person who requested it...  she wanted a specific flavor combination - Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cupcake frosted with Whipped Peanut Butter Frosting...

a clearer picture of another one in the same batch...

It's actually pretty good... but I have to work out the marbling thing more carefully.  Some cupcakes ended up looking more like chocolate with minimal vanilla.

(I will see you again, cupcake! and next time, you will be prettier!)