Ari's Birthday Sleep over cupcakes

I made it through another holiday

Well, Christmas and Michael's birthday have passed and I survived. Boy, last week was crazy!!! We went to McCovey's in Walnut Creek for Michael's 10th birthday. The boys had a great time. If you haven't been to McCovey's yet, you have to go.

Christmas Crackers

Tie one end off before putting candy in the cracker.

Empty toilet paper rolls

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Tomato Soup Cake

This cake is really really good! I used a spice cake and

followed the directions on the box and added 1-can of

Tomato Soup, 1-3oz. box of cheesecake pudding mix.

Hard to believe it has been 8 years since I made these

cupcake because my husband love it so much.

  I will make these soon and post the pictures.

My EGGLESS cupcakes

The Recipe~ 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix, 1-3oz box of Chocolate pudding, 1/2 Cups of crushed Oreo cookies. I followed the recipe on the box but forgot the eggs. These cupcakes tasted so GOOD!!!! I made them to sell at a bake sale but they never made it to the SALE. I can't wait to make these again.

Marshmallow Pops

I usually make S'more and Rocky Road Pops, but when I saw Bakerella's Cupcake pops I decided to give my MARSHMALLOWS dip into Royal icing and see if they looked anything like Bakerella's cupcake pops. They are really really simple, and you know I keep it simple. I used royal icing because I had some extra icing I wanted to get rid of. My boys loved them.

Caramel Dipped Apples

Rhonda's Dunkin Delights

For Christmas apples click here  Halloween apples
The Works
Fugi apples dipped in caramel, dark chocolate then drizzled with white chocolate.
The Works~ Fugi apples dipped in caramel, dark chocolate ~ rolled in pecans then drizzled with white and milk chocolate.
Where to get Concord Foods caramel ~ http://www.concordfoods.com/where.html

Billy's Vanilla Vanilla

I've been very interested in the recipe for some time now and I finally got to make it today! I've read some reviews mostly good but some negative ones as well. The not so good ones were mostly about the cupcakes being dry and some were reviewed that the centers in the cupcakes were sunken.

I followed the recipe and was very pleased with the results. I can't imagine them being dry with 2 sticks of butter. MOVE OVER PAULA DEEN! The only thing I can think of that would have caused the sunken centers is overfilling the liners. Or maybe a little tap of the oven caused them to fall.

Overall this was a yummy and easy recipe! BUT I'm interested what would happen if you substituted regular flour for cake flour??

Cupcake Flowers

The youtube link below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9qtZwHHmx4

Decorative Cupcake Holder

Step 1. According fold a (9 x 6 inch) crepe paper, each fold should be 1 inch. This is what it should look like. Step 2. Round the corners Step 3. Cut them into individual strips Step 4. Glue the strips onto a big "NUT CUP." Step. 5 Turn the nut cup over and fluff out the crepe paper.

Decorative Cupcake Holder

Step 1. According fold a (9 x 6 inch) crepe paper, each fold should be 1 inch. This is what it should look like. Step 2. Round the corners Step 3. Cut them into individual strips Step 4. Glue the strips onto a big "NUT CUP." Step. 5 Turn the nut cup over and fluff out the crepe paper.

Decorated Oatmeal Container

Fill the Decorated Oatmeal container with BIG cookies.
Lid 1 no ribbon~ kind of boring! Lid 2 This is the lid with the ribbon.

Time Capsule

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I used an OATMEAL box to make this Time Capsule! I usually make jumbo cookies to put in the decorative box. I will post instructions later.

Time Capsule

I used an OATMEAL box to make this Time Capsule! I usually make jumbo cookies to put in the decorative box. I will post instructions later.