It is the last Cupcake Wednesday of the school year!! And for that, I decided I needed to make it special. I have A MILLION (ok well, over 100) new recipes to try because I found cheap cupcake cookbooks on Kindle (a super awesome birthday present for my 31st!!), and had to try them out. And in order to get a few in before the end of the school year, I ma
de three recipes and put them all in mini cupcake form so everyone could enjoy all three flavors!Flavor #1 comes from "Cupcake Cookbook: 100+ Super Cute and Droolworthy Recipes to Impress" by Sharlene Alexander on the Kindle. It is a Lemon Cream cupcake and I used some left over raspberry frosting to complete the flavor pairing--sour and sweet (kinda like me, or Sour Patch kids). I piped on a little flower/star and added a mint leaf to spice it up a bit.
Flavor #2 was from Kindle book #2 "The Absolutely Most Delicious Cupcake Recipes Cookbook" by Madison Parker--Key Lime Cupcake. Well, I used re
gular limes but put in a LOT of zest to make it lime-y. I thought a good complimentary frosting flavor would be coconut, and I have a tried and true coconut cream cheese frosting. I like the tropical inspiration of these cupcake. Gets me ready for summer.Flavor #3 is from "Who You Callin' Cupcake" (see the section on Books), a banana cupcake. It's a good solid banana flavor, and could be us
ed for bread as well. To sweeten it up, I added a new frosting--Nutella Cream Cheese Frosting. I googled it and found one I could live with. Essentially, it's cream cheese frosting, but replace some of the cream cheese with Nutella, and add powdered sugar as necessary.All three cupcakes are very moist, and stayed that way after being baked and frosted ahead of time. The lime is very flavorful, despite the lack of lime extract. The group really liked the banana, and the consensus on the frosting is A+!! And, as mentioned above, the lemon and the raspberry are a good combination for the contrasts they provide.
Happy summer!! :)
