Transformers Cupcakes

My son Daniel has a Transformers party at daycare today, so I made some vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with some chocolate Autobot and Decipticon symbols.

Monkey La La Recipe

Monkey La La is a drink with coconut, vodka, Kahlua and Bailey's. A coworker asked me to recreate the drink in a cupcake, and this is what I came up with....BTW, it's super good.

Cupcake:

1 3/4 cup flour

3/4 cup cocoa powder (I use Hershey's Special Dark)

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1 1/2 tsp b powder

1 1/2 tsp b soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 eggs

1/2 cup oil

2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup whole milk

1/4 cup Kahlua

1/4 cup Bailey's Irish Cream

1 cup boiling water (I actually use half coffee/half water)

preheat oven to 350 degrees. This recipe makes approx 28 cupcakes.

Sift all dry ingredients into large bowl (It's a pain to sift b sugar, but it really helps break it up), add all wet except boiling water, mix with electric mixer for 2 minutes on high. Add boiling water and mix until incorporated.

Make sure when you fill you cupcake pan, that you only fill these a little less than 2/3 full, they will make a mess if you fill too full.

Monkey La La mix:

1 oz vanilla vodka

1 oz Kahlua

1 oz Bailey's

2 oz cream of coconut or reduced coconut milk

3 oz cream or half and half

Monkey La La buttercream:

3 sticks unsalted butter, softened

1 stick salted butter, softened

pinch salt

5 cups sifted powdered sugar (or more to suit the consistency you want)

2/3 cup of monkey la la mix

Cream butter till lite and fluffy, add the rest of the ingredients and beat until well blended. you can add more powdered sugar if you want too.

with the rest of the monkey la la mix you can put it in a blender with a little ice, and have a little taste of the tropics.....

Oreos

I made an oreo cake today, and with leftover batter, some cupcakes.

The cake is filled with a whipped cream oreo mousse, and frosted with a vanilla buttercream. I ran out of buttercream, and since it was just for us left it as is....so you can see it's not the greatest frost job.

The cupcakes have half an oreo on the bottom, then topped with a vanilla cake.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

I made two kinds, Pina Colada with coconut frosting and Monkey La La's. The bride-to-be's colors are royal blue and black, so I chose black liners with blue accents made of coconut flavored marshmallow fondant.

Inside the birthday cakes

Not to toot my own horn, but both of these cakes tasted fabulous. beep, beep.

Happy Birthday Frosty!

So, I made these cakes for my friend Frosty's birthday. The chocolate cake is a Baileys and Kahlua infused devils food, alternately filled with whipped Kahlua chocolate ganache and Bailey's buttercream. The wolf on top is an (attempted) copy of her tattoo made out of chocolate, and wolf prints on the side also made out of chocolate using the Whimsical Bakehouse's chocolate method.
I really envisioned this being better. My excuse is that I don't feel well and haven't for about 4 days.

Strawberry Mojito Cake....

I made a Strawberry Mojito cake today, one of two cakes for my friend Frosty's birthday. It is a triple layer mojito cake filled with a Strawberry Mojito buttercream, and Mojito macerated strawberries and frosted with the same buttercream on top and a Mojito Swiss Meringue on the sides. I meant to garnish the top with strawberry, lime and mint---but used all the strawberry and limes in the mix. Oh well. My excuse is that I've been under the weather for a few days.

The cake is Warren Brown's Light and Lemony cake, but I changed the lemon to lime and added mint and rum instead of the limencello. I highly recommend it.