Coconut Lemon Mini Cupcakes

These little babies were well received at Book Club and work. So light, they couldn’t possibly have too many calories or be bad for you!

Coconut Cupcakes
1 box white cake mix
1 cup coconut, processed in food processor
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1½ cups coconut milk

Preheat oven to 350° and put mini cupcake papers in mini cupcake pan. With electric mixer, mix cake mix, coconut, eggs, oil, and coconut milk for 2 minutes. Scoop batter into prepared cupcake pan, filling each cup about 3/4 full. Bake 15-18 minutes, until top is set and springs bake when touched. Cool completely before frosting.
Makes approx. 48 mini cupcakes.

Lemon Buttercream
1 cup butter, softened
5 cups powdered sugar
1 lemon, finely zest and squeeze juice
2-3 Tbl cream
yellow food color
coconut

Beat butter with electric mixer for 5 minutes until creamy lighter in color. Add powdered sugar, zest. Add enough food color, cream and juice to make desired color, consistency and taste. Pipe onto completely cool cupcakes, and dip frosted top of cupcake in bowl of coconut.

Advertisement

Vanilla Caramel Macchiato Cupcakes

Have some fun with flavor!

Vanilla Caramel Macchiato Cupcakes:
1 box french vanilla cake mix
1 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup Coffee Mate Caramel Macchiato Powder
3/4 tsp salt
1¹/3 cups water
2 Tbl oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup sour cream
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 325°. Place cupcake liners in cupcake pans (makes approx 24 cupcakes).  In large bowl, whisk together cake mix, flour, sugar, Coffee Mate Caramel Macchiato powder, and salt. Stir together water, oil, vanilla, sour cream, and egg white. Add liquid mixture to dry ingredients and beat with electric mixer for 2 minutes, or until well blended. Scoop batter into prepared cups, filling 3/4 full. Bake 18-22 minutes. Cool Completely.

Vanilla Caramel Macchiato Buttercream:
1 cup butter, softened
4½ cups powdered sugar
2 Tbl Coffee Mate Caramel Macchiato Powder
1 tsp vanilla
3-4 Tbl whole milk or cream (milk works)

With electric mixer, whip butter until light and creamy. Add powdered sugar, Coffee Mate Caramel Macchiato powder, vanilla and 3 Tbl milk. Whip until well combined, add more milk if needed to make desired frosting consistency. Pipe onto completely cooled cupcakes. Garnish with vanilla chips and toffee bits if desired.

More Cupcake Ideas:

 

Ultimate Turtle Brownies

Not your everyday brownies…but should be!

1 (15.25 oz) box chocolate cake mix
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
1 cup each white chips, milk chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup butter
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
32 Kraft caramels, unwrapped

Preheat oven to 350°. Spray a 13″x9″ baking pan with nonstick spray. Combine cake mix, oil, and eggs. Mix in all the chips. Press half of the mixture into bottom of prepared baking pan (will be a thin layer). Bake 10 minutes.

While baking, in medium saucepan, combine butter, sweetened condensed milk, and caramels. Heat over medium-low heat until melted and smooth (stir constantly). Pour over partially baked brownies in baking pan. Top with remaining brownie mixture, sprinkle over caramel mixture with your fingers (a bit messy) to make an even layer. Brownie mixture will not totally cover the caramel mixture, pat down a bit, it will spread and bake up nicely. Return to oven and bake 25-30 minutes. Remove, cool 20 minutes and run knife around edges. Cool completely before cutting into bars. Recipe found at allfood.recipes.

One Year Ago: Soft & Thick Snickerdoodles

Two Years Ago: Dark Chocolate Snack Cake

Three Years Ago: Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream

Four Years Ago: Date Nut Pinwheel Cookies

Nutter Butter Snack Cake

For all the peanut butter fans out there in the world…a Nutter Butter, peanut buttery treat!

1 (15.25 oz) white cake mix
1¼ cups milk
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
14 Nutter Butter cookies, chopped
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter (optional for topping)

Preheat oven to 350°. In large bowl, combine cake mix, milk, oil, and eggs. Mix with electric mixer, mix on low speed until combined and on medium speed for 2 minutes. Mix in chopped Nutter Butter cookies. Pour into well sprayed bundt pan. Bake for 40-42 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, turn out onto cooling rack to cool completely. Heat peanut butter in microwave to melt, drizzle over top of cake, and sprinkle with powdered sugar. To go all out, drizzle chocolate over the peanut butter!

One Year Ago: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

Two Years Ago: Peach Pecan Breakfast Cake

Three Years Ago: Chocolate Chip Cookies Oreo Brownies

Orange Creamsicle Rice Krispies Treats

This is a great treat to make on a hot day. No need for the oven to heat up the kitchen. My nieces and I had fun making this recipe from simplysouthernbaking.com.

Orange Rice Krispies Treats:
1/4 cup butter
1 (10 oz) bag mini marshmallows
1½ tsp vanilla
2/3 cup orange cake mix (I used Duncan Hines Orange Supreme)
6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
2 cups white vanilla baking chips

In large microwave safe bowl, melt butter in microwave. Stir in mini marshmallows and microwave until melted. Stir in vanilla and orange cake mix. Add Rice Krispies and vanilla chips and stir to evenly coat. Turn out into a sprayed 13’x9″ pan, and press out evenly in pan. Cool.

Orange Creamsicle Buttercream:
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp orange extract
2-4 Tbl orange juice
food coloring

Whip butter with electric mixer. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and orange extract. Mix well. Add enough orange juice until creamy spreading consistency. mix in a couple drops each of red and yellow food coloring to make desired orange color. Spread evenly over orange rice krispies treats.

One Year Ago: Dark Chocolate Snack Cake

Two Years Ago: S’more Ice Cream Cake

Three Years Ago: Harvest Grain & Pecan Pancakes/Waffles

Carrot Cake Sweet Rolls

A box carrot cake mix is the beginning for this idea. A carrot cake mix made into sweet roll dough with cinnamon sugar filling and cream cheese frosting, I think they are yummy!

Carrot Cake Sweet Rolls:
1¼ cups warm water (110°)
1 pkt (2¼ tsp) dry yeast
1 box carrot cake mix
1 Tbl oil
2½ cups flour
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tbl cinnamon
1/2-3/4 cup raisins

In bowl of mixer, pour warm water, sprinkle yeast over, then cake mix.  Let sit 5 minutes.  Add oil, flour, salt, and raisins; mix all together.  Knead.  Let rise 1 hour.  Knead lightly again, roll out to 18″x8″ rectangle. Spread butter over dough. Stir together sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon; sprinkle over butter. Roll up from long end to long end, pinch seam.  Cut into 12 rounds (I use thread, place under dough, cross ends over and pull quickly through dough), put in sprayed 13″×9″ pan.  Cover and let rise until doubled. Bake in preheated 375° oven for 18-20 minutes. Cool to just warm and spread with frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting:
4 oz cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla

With electric mixer, whip cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla.

    

One Year Ago: Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies

Two Years Ago: White Chocolate Candy Cane Fudge

 

Pumpkin Pie Cake

Here is another option for Thanksgiving dessert…or anytime! The original recipe is from keyingredient.com. I made one addition to the recipe, Biscoff cookies, how could that go wrong? Yum!

Cake Base:
1 yellow cake mix, minus 1 cup
10 Biscoff Cookies, crushed
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 egg, beaten

Preheat oven to 350°. Mix cake mix (minus the 1 cup, put in bowl and set aside for topping) and crushed cookies. Add butter and mix. Add egg and mix well. Press in bottom of a sprayed 9″x13″ pan. Mix together the pumpkin filling.

Pumpkin Filling:
1 (15 oz) can pumpkin
3 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup milk
1½ tsp cinnamon

Whisk together pumpkin, eggs, sugar, brown sugar, milk, and cinnamon. Spread over base in pan. Mix together topping.

Topping:
1 cup of cake mix
6 Biscoff cookies, crushed
1/4 cup butter, softened

Stir together the 1 cup cake mix and cookie crumbs. Add butter and mix with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over pumpkin filling. Bake for 50-55 minutes. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

One Year Ago: Pumpkin Gingersnap Truffles

Two Years Ago: Triple Chocolate Hazelnut Pie

Confetti Cream Cheese Bars

There was a confetti cake mix in my pantry, what should I do? Well, this is what happened.

Confetti Cake Layer:
1 confetti cake mix
2 Tbl rainbow sprinkles (or jimmies)
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 egg, beaten

Preheat oven to 350°. In bowl, stir together cake mix and sprinkles. Stir in butter and egg until well combined. Press into bottom of 9″x13″ baking pan.

Cream Cheese Layer:
1 (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
2 cups powdered sugar

In bowl with electric mixer, whip together cream cheese and eggs. Add powdered sugar and mix until well incorporated. Spread over confetti layer in pan.

Short Bread Crumble Topping:
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 Tbl rainbow sprinkles (or jimmies)

In small bowl, stir together flour and sugar. Mix butter into dry ingredients until crumbly. Sprinkle crumble mixture evenly over cream cheese layer. Sprinkle the sprinkles evenly over crumbles. Bake 30 minutes. Cool and cut into bars.

Key Lime Cupcakes

Oh Yum! A little tart and a whole lot of sweet!

Key Lime Cupcakes:
1 (16.25 oz) white cake mix
1 can (22 oz) key lime pie filling (Duncan Hines Comstock), divided
3 eggs
1/2 cup oil

Preheat oven to 350°. Put cupcake liners in cupcake pans. In large bowl with electric mixer, mix cake mix, key lime pie filling (same 2 Tbl pie filling for frosting), eggs, and oil. Scoop batter evenly into prepared cupcake pans. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until set in center. Cool in pan 5 minutes, remove to wire rack and cool completely. Makes 18-24 depending on how full you fill the cups.

Key Lime Buttercream:
1 cup butter, softened
2 Tbl key lime pie filling
5 cups powdered sugar
3-4 Tbl key lime or lime juice
2 drops green food coloring, optional

With electric mixer, whip butter until light and fluffy. Add the 2 Tbl key lime pie filling and whip. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time and lime juice one Tbl at a time, whipping until desired consistency.  You can add a couple drops of green food coloring if desired. Frost completely cooled cupcakes. Sprinkle with green sprinkles if desired.

One Year Ago: Sweet Bread Rolls

Two Years Ago: Oreo Truffles

If you are interested in Demarle bakeware such as the Muffin Tray and Perforated Sheet please visit mydemarleathome.com/kristenparker or simply click on the Demarle at Home logo below.

Lemon Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream

Whenever I can, I like a shortcut…as long as the end product is presentable and delicious. These lemon cupcakes are light and tender with creamy raspberry buttercream, definitely presentable and delicious!

Lemon Cupcakes:
1 (15.25 oz) yellow cake mix
1 can (15.75 oz) lemon pie filling
3 eggs
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup milk

Preheat oven to 350°. Put cupcake liners (makes 24) in cupcake pan. In large bowl with electric mixer, mix cake mix, lemon pie filling, eggs, oil, and milk. Scoop batter evenly into prepared cupcake pans. Bake for 18 minutes or until set in center. Cool in pan 5 minutes, remove to wire rack and cool completely.

Raspberry Buttercream:
1 cup butter, softened
4 Tbl seedless raspberry jam
5 cups powdered sugar
4 Tbl milk

With electric mixer, whip butter until light and fluffy. Add jam and whip. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time and milk one Tbl at a time, whipping until desired consistency.  You can add a couple drops of red food coloring if desired. Frost completely cooled cupcakes.

One Year Ago: Coconut Vanilla Oatmeal Cookies

Two Years Ago: Humming Bird Bread

If you are interested in Demarle bakeware such as the Muffin Tray and Perforated Sheet please visit mydemarleathome.com/kristenparker or simply click on the Demarle at Home logo below.