Wednesday, September 30, 2009

[BLUE] Raspberry Buttermilk Cupcakes

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So like I've been talking about for almost all of my posts, I'm in this club - Circle K. Recently, we were allowed to be Family Heads. It's sort of like in the greek system where you have a big bro and a big sis and what not, but in Circle K, it's like a Mom and a Dad. Dmitriy and I decided to be family heads together. We are known as the Blue Shapangs (Shaprio + Yang = Shapang).

Tuesday was our first meeting, and we were supposed to wear our family colors - blue. EASY! I wanted to bring something extra along with me in the form of cupcakes. I had looked at my recipes, and quite a few of them were blue - as in blueberries, but going to the grocery store, the raspberries were only 99 cents but blueberries were 4.99. Guess which one I bought.

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Dont these look like alien creatures wanting food?
Maybe I just try to entertain myself while baking and laughing at random things I think about.


So with these raspberries, I remembered this beautiful recipe made by Smitten Kitchen, but I still needed something blue.

I decided to dye the batter itself blue. Food coloring will be my best friend. I expect that I'll be using it a lot to get that unnatural color of blue. Even blueberries aren't blue. *sigh* I guess I'll have to see how well the blue lasts me. I'll probably give up after a month. As a surprise too, I added one chocolate chip in the little cup that the raspberry created. I wondered how many of the family members actually noticed.

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Recipe for the raspberry buttermilk cupcakes
[found here]

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10 comments:

  1. Nina, I love these! They would be perfect for any kid's party, too. What kind of frosting did you use?

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  2. I had used a regular vanilla frosting with blue food coloring in it...

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  3. I'm a sucker for blue coloured food. Like bubble gum ice cream and blue rasberry things. These cupcakes look really yummy! Yes I agree they cupcakes look like aliens haha. But delicious aliens. I love that you put a raspberry with a chocolate chip inside.

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  4. mmmm yum yum. reminds me of cotton candy!!

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  5. These little beauties look super delish Nina.

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  6. Nice-these are like smurf cupcakes!

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  7. Normally I'm averse to blue food, but these are just the right shade to go from ew to adorable.

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  8. nina, i'm so liking the blue!! these look delish!!

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  10. Thanks for sharing, I was doing a google search for blue raspberry cakes and this came up! I am planning a "Breezy-Blue" party for my 11 year old son and I want everything to be blue including the cake, so this is perfect! I'm going to refer my cake designer, so that she can have a visual of what I want the cake to look like! Thanks again! ;-)

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<3 Nina

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