Chocolate Mini Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

I have been in a cupcake Coma since trying this recipe. This has got to be the best icing recipe I have ever made! Not too sweet...I could literally sit with the spatula and eat the entire bowl of icing. I usually wouldn't be able to do that with a regular vanilla butter cream (too sweet for me). But this particular frosting recipe was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
What you'll need:
1\3 cup of butter
1\3 of vegetable shortening
3\4 cup peanut butter

1 Tsp of pure vanilla
4 cups of sifted confections sugar
4-6 tablespoons of milk

Cream together the softened butter & shortening.

then add the peanut butter and vanilla. add one cup at time of icing sugar. its will start to look very dry after a few cups but don't worry once you add the milk it will all be good. So then gradually add your milk.

you can refrigerate up to 2 weeks. make sure you cover up your unused portion so it does not dry out. If you put in the fridge to keep,make sure you re whip it before icing your cake.Then topped with my favorite all time Candie...

REESE'S PIECES

Robots and Bride & Grooms

These chocolate cupcakes were for a very Loyal customer for a wedding On Saturday I'm not too sure what the robots signify but they were fun to make. Everything is edible all made of icing.

Diploma Grad Cupcakes

 

Fondant Graduation caps

these were ordered from a customer, who's friend had just graduated Bsc..Computer Sciences at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The Icing is "Actually" a deep royal purple...Time to get a new camera (they look blue) :(....

Anyways in real life I'm sure they will be very happy with them. The purple Icing was requested to Symbolize the school colors of the University.

All 18 are made of double chocolate cupcakes, and vanilla butter cream frosting. all the decorations are made of Fondant except for the little diplomas. They are paper rolled up with some "Congratulations", "You did it", "BSc class of 2010".... and special words written on the inside.

Is spring here yet?!

I had so much fun making these cupcakes. I think it is the whole "miniature scene" kind of theme. Everything you see is completely edible. All made out of Fondant icing or buttercream icing. I was going to just make it a bumble bee & watermelon theme but I thought the that Mr. Bee looked lonely so I added some Lady bug friends to join him. I think I may have a hard time eating these guys cause they are way too cute.

Daisy Cupcakes

 

French Vanilla Frosted Rainbow & Chocolate Cake cupcakes.

These Cupcakes too were for our church's bake sale. All the funds are going to go towards fundraising for "World Youth Day."

I got these cupcake papers & daisies from the "Martha Stewart Collection". They have been sitting in my cupboard for a while waiting to be made for the perfect event.

 I love polka dots. This is what Sold me on buying these paper cups...

But....

With much disappointment....
They DID NOT SHOW UP!!! err Sorry Martha!

I love Ya but I'm not happy with your paper cups.

Look at the picture below....

......No yellow??!!! No POLKA DOTS!!!

Sigh :(

Any who....
I was going to do plain French Vanilla cupcakes.(this is the batter before they hit the oven)..but I thought that was kinda boring, so I thought Id add a splash of color-with Wilton gel color (rose pink, sky blue, and yellow butter cream)...It really changed the whole look of what I had planned for the cupcakes...
so much for boring white...I think I could find this my new favorite thing so fun!

These were super Colorful & really yummy.

I know that at the sale probably 90% of the people are probably guilty "Chocolate Lovers"like me...So I couldn't be a part of a bake sale with no Chocolate....

So I gave in.

I whipped up Another batch of Double Chocolate Cupcakes. I wonder which will sell faster? The rainbow bright cupcakes or Chocolate?

Or maybe no one will buy them at all?

who am I kidding...they will be gone.......right?!

"I hope."

(all packed and ready to go)..

Little Ladybugs

 

Chocolate cupcakes-- with royal Icing blossoms, buttercream icing for grass and Sugar cookie Lady-bugs.. Arnt they Cute?!

It all Started with a little mini-lady bug Sugar cookies.........
Then they started to come to life with some red buttercream icing....
Did some piping with tip # 23, doesnt quite look like much yet, sort of looks like green hair,
Icing was colored with (Wilton icing color...leaf green color) , still doesnt look like much yet... do you know what it is going to be?

Some wild grass...for the Lady bugs to hang out on.
And some more..... Some Spring Blossom candies made of Royal icing...yum! What to do with the Flowers? I thought I'd turn them into lolipop flowers and stick them in the cupcakes. In order to do that...some chocolate wafers had to be melted as glue.
Melt, melt, melting..... And stick them!

And Voila!