Coconut Pecan Frosting with Devils Food Cupcakes [sms]

This week's Sweet Melissa Sundays pick, Coconut Pecan Frosting, was chosen by a great friend, Eliana of A Chica Bakes.

I remember when I was travelling to New York, Eliana gave me some great tips and pointers for going there. I'm super sorry that we were not able to meet up anything, but I'll be back in New York in March with my best friend for Spring Break. We'll be partying it up and eating some delicious foods.

I do want to apologize to everyone for not posting for a while. School and recruiting has been taking over my life lately, but I have some extra time this weekend because I don't have midterms until next week. I had a date this weekend, one of many since my ex and I broke up. He decided to cook me dinner while I made him these cupcakes with this topping. He loved it. I made the Devil's Food cupcakes from a mix, but doctored it up. I used this recipe for Chocolate Rum Cake because I had some Malibu lying around...well because my friend Elan is awesome and bought me some when I was super depressed.

Anyways, back to my blog, I've been trying to get myself back into baking, and I'll attempt to make something weekly. Wish me luck!

Mango Bread with Cinnamon-Rum-Strawberry Glaze [sms]

This week's Sweet Melissa Sundays pick, Sweet Potato Bread with Cinnamon-Rum-Orange Glaze, was chosen by Lorelei of Mermaid Sweets. I instead made it with Mangoes and Strawberry.

I ended up using canned mangoes found in the grocery store. At first, I thought they tasted a bit weird out of the can, but it tasted fine when it came out of the oven.

I first pureed one can of mangoes and the other can, I chopped up and put it into the batter itself. It gave it two different ways of getting mango.

As for the glaze on top, I made it with strawberry juice and Puerto Rican rum. It was pretty good except for the fact the glaze was kind of too sticky or something. It was great regardless.

I had made this and Thin Mint cupcakes for the Bake sale. The next couple [or a lot] of pictures are from the Bake Sale on Saturday! Enjoy. [we made $1650 for charity!]

Make sure to check out the rest of the SMS bakers on the blogroll.

Jello Shot Cupcakes

While browsing blogs, I came across this one recipe and told myself that I would make it for something. An occasion came up. My friend's surprise going away party. It was perfect.

So during this time, I was done with finals but it was still the busiest week that I've had in a while. Graduations take forever, but I really enjoyed going to them and seeing my friends walk across that stage and receive their degrees. I digress. So finding the time to go out and get unflavored gelatin was none actually. I had no idea where to go looking for it either. Oh well. I decided to just go with regular jello toppings instead of the broken jello. Maybe some other day. If I had a bit more time, I would have created shapes and yeah, been impressive, but no time =(.

Picture of some of them

The off colors in the jello are because I had cut all the jello up and put it in a pan all together.

With the extra jello, I put whipped cream on top and wrote have fun!

But it had kinda broke on me when I brought it to the party. Well I had a friend bring it and to none of their fault, the jello fell and the foil got stuck on the whipped cream and you couldnt read that it said have fun anymore =(.

Everyone thought it was good though, that's all that counted.

<3 Nina