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Both cupcakes were dense….frosting became soft very quick, beware when decorating.  
Vanilla Cookie Cupcake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup milk

recipe from: AllRecipes.Com

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line the muffin tin with cupcake liners.

Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl.

In another medium bowl, beat the eggs and sugar with an electricmixer until light and foamy, about 2 minutes. While beating, gradually pour in the butter and then the vanilla.

While mixing slowly, add half the dry ingredients, then add all the milk, and follow with the rest of the dry ingredients. Take care not to over mix the batter. Divide the batter evenly in the prepared tin.

****Cookie addition, make or buy cookie dough, make the raw dough in balls, FREEZE them and place the frozen dough in your yellow cake cupcake batter bake for 20 mins. 

• Red Velvet Cupcake
  
• allrecipes.com
• 1 cup flour
• 3 tablespoons and 1/2 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup and 1 tablespoon butter, softened
• 3/4 cup and 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1-1/2 eggs
• 1/3 cup and 1 tablespoon sour cream
• 3 tablespoons and 1/2 teaspoon milk
• 3/8 (1 ounce) bottle McCormick® Red Food Color
• 3/4 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
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• Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting:
• 3/8 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 tablespoon and 1-3/4 teaspoons butter, softened
• 2-1/2 teaspoons sour cream
• 3/4 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
• 3/8 (16 ounce) box confectioners’ sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Set aside.
2. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in sour cream, milk, food color and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until just blended. Do not overbeat. Spoon batter into 30 paper-lined muffin cups, filling each cup 2/3 full.
3. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cupcake comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 5 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely. Frost with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting.
4. Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat cream cheese, softened, butter, sour cream and McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract in large bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners’ sugar until smooth.

Chocolate Tea Bread!

The “bread” was good for those who want something light, and not very sweet, great for an afternoon tea or breakfast. 

• Changed from the website i got it
• 4 eggs, separated
• 1 cup butter
• 1 2/3 cups white sugar
• 1 cup brewed black tea, cold
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1/3 mini chocolate chips
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Orignal recipe unchanged: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Black-Tea-Cake/Detail.aspx

Cake with a surprise: A simple, rich chocolate cake I made for the holiday. 

The cake was just a plain old marble cake. After baking I cut of the top and hollowed out the middle. The filling was yummy and very rich, I thought using dark chocolate would make if good but i will recommend you to stay with the milk chocolate. 

Mix it together. 

1 pkg. (8 squares) Semi-Sweet Chocolate (melted)1/4 cup  milk2 tsp. powdered sugar1 tsp.  vanilla1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed

Brownie Cheesecake

i did make small modifications, i made a lot less caramel sauce. Let the sauce cool for a while before putting it on the brownie/under cheesecake layer. 

recipe from allrecipes.com

• 1 (9 ounce) package brownie mix
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon cold water
• 1 (14 ounce) package individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
• 1 (5 ounce) can evaporated milk
• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs

I bought Hershey kisses with almonds and made the recipe on the back. Turned out yum, I did add one egg white, and since i used almond extract as well i added 2 extra tbsp of sugar. 

Ingredients:

• 36 HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates with Almonds
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1-1/4 cups finely chopped slivered almonds
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract(optional)
• Powdered sugar