Happy Birthday, Kristie!

Today is not only tax day, it's my friend Kristie's birthday! She's a fellow chocoholic so I made her some Milky Way Cupcakes. It's a chocolate cupcake with a piece of a milky way candy bar baked in the middle topped with caramel buttercream.

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After baking:















After frosting:































I wasn't sure how these were going to turn out. It has been a long time since I baked something in the middle of a cupcake. The candy bar hardened back up into original shape after cooling it had more of a chewy texture, though. These were really good. I wasn't the biggest fan of the frosting, so I used a decorating technique that used as little as I could. Overall, I consider these pretty successful! I just hope Kristie feels the same!

I'm gonna do better

I realize I haven't been quite the blogger lately. The last time I made cupcakes, I didn't take pictures, but let me tell you they were very different and quite tasty. I had a cupcake at a local cupcake shop that was outstanding and tried to reproduce it. It was a chocolate cupcake with Nutella filling frosted with a maple buttercream. VERY RICH--in a good way!

I am baking more cupcakes Thursday for a friend's birthday. I'll post pictures. I'm not going to tell what kind I'm making... you'll have to check back to see!

Also, on my baking agenda is this Coconut Banana Bread with Lime Glaze. Doesn't it look fantastic? I think it's gonna be a "Welcome Home" thing for Derek. He's been in Texas for the last week or so.

Anyway, just wanted to give a shout-out to say I'm still here and still interested in my blog even though it doesn't look like I am!

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