Phish Food Cupcakes

This is my last ice cream cupcake that I have made. So this is marking the end of the annual Ice Cream Cupcake competition by Cupcake Project and Scoopalicious. This is inspired by the wonderful Ben and Jerry's flavor Phish Food. It's one of my boyfriend's favorite ice cream flavors and I love the combination of chocolate, marshmallow, and caramel.

I started out with a chocolate cupcake. I used the Martha Stewart 1 Bowl Chocolate Cupcake Recipe. It's super simple and easy to clean afterward baking.

I topped the cupcakes with some marshmallow fluff to imitate the marshmallow in the ice cream.

I then added some caramel flavored ice cream on top. I would have made my own, but alas, I have no ice cream maker. In addition, I found this place near my house that sells a scoop of ice cream for a dollar and they're also homemade.

I topped the ice cream with some homemade marshmallow fluff frosting. I took some of the extra marshmallow fluff and made Marshmallow Fluff Frosting. It's super delicious!

To recreate the fish that are IN the ice cream. I piped some melted chocolate onto some parchment paper in the shape of fish. When they set, they made the perfect topping to the cupcake.

I had a super fun time making, creating, and eating all these ice cream cupcakes.

ps. feel free to look at my other creations that I didn't end up entering.

Cream-Filled Chocolate Cupcakes [msc]

This cupcake has got to be one of the more complicated ones for me.

I didn't have marshmallow fluff and so I had to melt down marshmallows for it, but somehow, it just didn't turn out . But it go onto the cupcake and into the cupcake. I got some cool pictures of me putting the cream into the cupcake.

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The cupcake was pretty good itself - I had tried it. The whole cupcake was average I suppose with the average marshmallow creme.

Sorry for the super short post, I'm super busy this week. It's like showcase week [where my friend in Taiko performed Wednesday and then another friend in a dance group is on Friday]. This weekend is also the Bake Sale!

The recipe for this month's Cupcake Club is found on pages 133 of Martha Stewart's Cupcake book. Thanks to Jess from Cookbook Habit for choosing this.

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S'more Cupcakes [msc]

These S'more cupcakes were easy to make and super yummy.

Mine were a little on the dry side, but since I added extra chocolate and marshmallows, it seemed okay. I had filled mine with extra chocolate. and added marshmallows on top. Now, that I've sat down for a while, I could have filled mine with the marshmallows and chocolate and then topped them again. That would have been creative.

I realize that I always run out of time before going to parties with my friends and finish my cupcakes almost always last minute.

Last time I made s'more cupcakes, it was a completely different recipe and those who tried both had their differing opinions, but that always happens.

Here's some pictures from the reunion dinner I had made these these cupcakes for [taken by my friend Linda]

The recipe for this month's Cupcake Club is found on pages 150-151 of Martha Stewart's Cupcake book. Thanks to Mary Ann from Meet Me in the Kitchen for choosing this.

Rocky Road Brownies

Last brownie recipe. These Rocky Road Brownies taste just like the ice cream version! I love rocky road ice cream so I thought I would share these with my boyfriend. I enjoy the chocolate, marshmallow and nuts. It was just a good combination of flavors. I had broiled the brownies a little bit because I wanted the chocolate chips on top and the marshmallows to melt and brown a bit.

Baking Party!

So my friend, Tiffany, and I wanted to make cake pops together and she wanted to dip cookies in chocolate...so we did!

What started out with the two of us ended up having 4 people decorating, laughing and overall having a great time!

I can't say too much since we didn't do that much, but I did try out a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipe. I really dont know how it tasted because I didnt have any.

PICTURES!

I just realized that we didn't take any pictures of the cake pops! oh well. That means I'll have to make them again HAHAHA.

Anyways, Tiffany [girl in the last picture] has some in her bag if you can see them!

Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies [db]

The July Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.

So I decided to tackle the Chocolate Covered Marshmallow cookies first since I decided that they would be fun to do first. I know that I would not be able to make homemade marshmallows this month at all, but I did buy those jumbo marshmallows. The first batch I made some covered in semisweet chocolate, and others in milk chocolate and covered some in different toppings.

The next time I decided to make the Chocolate Covered Marshmallow cookies was for the president's retreat. I was leading a workshop that actually had the title "Chocolate River with Marshmallows." It's a team building workshop but it also works the creativity of the people involved.

from top left (going clockwise): sprinkles, green crystals, caramel, red crystal, and just regular

I decided to tackle the Milan Cookies a week later. These were pretty easy to make and I decided to make the cookies in all different sizes. It's more fun this way.

They were both easy and fun to make. I'm really glad that I was able to make these and have fun feeding my friends while doing so!

S'mores Cupcake

So many things to bake, and so little time.
To be time efficient, I decided to bake these cupcakes a day before the baby shower, but then the baby was born today, and the baby shower tomorrow? So no baby shower, but now I'm left with cupcakes.
Oh well, these cupcakes came out amazing though. <3>
I, obviously, was inspired by this.


Cupcake portion:
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups of graham cracker crumbs
½ cup of flour
2 ½ teaspoons of baking powder
½ cup of butter, softened
¾ cup of sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoon of vanilla
¾ cup of soy milk
12 oz bag of chocolate chips

Directions:
In a small bowl combine the crumbs, flour and baking powder; set aside.
Beat the butter and the sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add the vanilla.
Alternately add flour mixture with milk, beating well after each addition.
Add in chocolate chips and mix well.
Divide the batter into two muffin tins lined with 22 cupcake liners total.
Bake at 350F degrees for 22-25 minutes or until done.
Cool in pans for 5 minutes.
Remove from pans and cool completely on a wire rack.

Frosting:
Ingredients:
1/2 lb. (2 sticks) butter, room temperature
1 cup confectioner's sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
7 oz. tub of marshmallow cream, 2 of them
Directions:
Cream the butter on high until it's light and fluffy.
Add the confectioner's sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, and beat until fluffy each time.
Beat in the vanilla until incorporated.
Then dump in the Fluff and mix it up 'til it's all creamy.
Transfer to pastry bag and pipe onto cupcakes!
Garnish with graham crackers and Hershey's chocolate.
Here are some different ways to do so.
Put them all together!

Recipes from here and here.
<3 Nina