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Minion Cupcakes

May 5, 2014 by Margaret Leave a Comment

I’ve always been a little behind the times. I don’t usually see movies at the theater and my clothes are a few seasons behind. I have no idea what’s on t.v. these days and I had no idea what a Minion was. I saw Minion Cupcakes on Pinterest and thought they were strange. My brothers talked about Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 and they meant nothing to me and I didn’t even know Minions and the movies were related.

Well…my husband rented movies one night and since we have 3 little ones at home we watch a lot of kids movies. He brought home Smurfs and Despicable Me 2. So we sat down to watch after a small fight of what are we going to watch first. Despicable Me 2 won, somehow throw 3 and 5 year old logic and compromises. I loved it. All of sudden those weird Minion Cupcakes on Pinterest were so cute.

Minion Cupcakes - create your own army on minions ~ Spindles Designs #minioncupcakes

The kids and I liked them so much we decided to make them for my husbands birthday. He thought they were great.

My kids loved helping my make daddy’s birthday cake. They are so easy I felt almost bad that I didn’t spend more time on my Hubby’s cake.

All you need is:

Frosted Cupcakes

Twinkies or Cloud Cakes

Black Frosting

Small decorating tip

Decorating Frosting Bag or baggie

Wilton Eyes or Smarties

Cut the Twinkies in have and decorated like your favorite Minion. While you let the Minion frosting set frost your cupcakes. Place Minions on cupcakes before frosting sets.

Minion Cupcakes by Spindles Designs #minioncupcakes

Enjoy!

Mags

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Checkerboard Cake

April 11, 2014 by Margaret 2 Comments

We are having fun this year celebrating birthdays. One thing we are doing is having fun with cakes. I asked David our oldest son what kind of cake he would like he said “Crumby Cake“. Now this was a surprise because that is Robert’s favorite cake. He then said, “no let’s make it more challenging, make a two layer checkerboard cake.” I immediately retorted, that a true “Checkerboard Cake” has tree layers and I could do that, secretly knowing that my daughters both have the magic tool to make one.

This was going to be a fun project, but how to decorate it.

David is a huge Seattle Seahawks fan, that was the answer. Here is David’s

“Seattle Seahawks Checkerboard Cake”.

Well at least what it looked like before we cut it for the surprise center.

First things first. I made my favorite plain white cake with a few changes to the measurements and directions. Because it is a three layer cake it needs a bit more batter.

1 cup Butter
1 cups sugar

3 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

4 cups flour

1 tbsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp salt

2 cups milk

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Cream butter and sugar together until light. Add eggs and vanilla, beat until fluffy. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk. Divide batter in half into two separate bowls. Add enough water to the 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to make a medium paste (about the same consistency of the batter). Stir into one bowl of batter. In the other bowl of batter I added green food coloring (team Color).

Just to help make sure your layers come out of the pan perfectly line the bottom with parchment paper.

Using a large spoon carefully pour batter into the separate divider sections of the magic tool (checkerboard baking set) that can be purchased at www.target.com and other on line stores. Be careful to get the different colors of batter at the same level.

Repeat for the other two pans. Be sure to make two layers the same. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes. Cool. Assemble cake with frosting in between layers, putting the different layer in the center. Frost cake with butter cream frosting.

Butter Cream Frosting

1/3 cup butter

Pinch of salt

3 cup powdered sugar

1/4 cup milk

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Cream butter, salt, vanilla and one cup powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Add remaining powdered sugar and milk alternately, beating until smooth and spreading consistency.

Cutting into the cake is always fun and a surprise to those who have no idea because you can’t tell from the outside. You can make any color combination you desire. Mary Catherine made a red and green one for Christmas one year. Have and enjoy.

Mary Ellen

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Graveyard Cake

October 25, 2013 by Margaret 5 Comments

For many year my husband and I have been gathering recipes that we liked from magazines, newspapers, friends and anywhere else we could find them. We would make some quickly and others got put in a file for later. After the file got out of control we put them in a binder after sorting out the ones that we knew would never get made. One of the keeper recipes is a “Graveyard Cake”. I didn’t make it for many years and then made it for a couple of Halloween parties. When I looked at the page today I found just how old it is and that the Taste of Home website still has it online. It is from their February/March 1998 issue.
It is fun to make and is a hit at a party. It tastes good too!
Make one for your party.

Mary Ellen

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Caterpillar Cupcake

August 13, 2013 by Margaret 10 Comments

Yes, we are playing with cakes again. This time however it isn’t Margaret.

My husband and I were shopping in Kohl’s the other day and while I was paying for my purchase he was browsing through a cook book just beyond the check out stand.

As we walked out the door he said, ” when we get home Google “ Caterpillar Cupcake“. So I did and this adorable cake turned up. Well I couldn’t resist.
All though not as cute as the original, the grand kids thought it was great.
Yes, sadly was, past tense. It has been devoured.

Mary Ellen

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Taco Cake

July 18, 2013 by Margaret 21 Comments

Did you see this fun Taco Cake in your Sunday (7/14/13) newspaper?

It was in the Parade Magazine. I always look through it for recipes or cute decorating ideas. At first I thought they had a cornbread taco shell. I wasn’t really interested then I notice it was a cake. I had to show my kids because they love tacos.

I decided it would be a fun dessert for family night so the kids and I visited the bulk bins to pick out the candy we would need. Our Taco Cake turn out pretty good.

If you don’t get the Sunday paper you can visit the Parade Magazine site for instructions.

It is a lot of fun to make.

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