Running away? I'll help you pack.: Minecraft Cupcakes

Thursday, May 1, 2014

I'm Featured on Pin Me!

I'm still on the party train here so just a quick post :). I'm so excited my Minecraft Character (Perler Beads was featured) on Diana Rambles Pin Me! Thank you so much Diana for featuring me!

What I've been working on just a few more things to go.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

I'll be finishing up this party and showing it all off next week :)

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Minecraft Birthday Party ... Minecraft Creeper Cupcakes

Today is Cole's 10th Birthday! I wanted to surprise him at school with cupcakes for his friends. Going with our Minecraft theme, I wanted to make Creeper Cupcakes. I saw a version on Candy Bar Cupcakes that I took and ran with.

I started with a One Bowl Chocolate Cupcake recipe, I filled these cool brick square cupcake liners (found on Amazon). I wanted a square cupcake so I found a square cupcake pan also on Amazon.

NGREDIENTS:

2 cups white sugar

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup boiling water

DIRECTIONS:

1.	Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two nine inch round pans.
2.	In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer. Stir in the boiling water last. Batter will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
3.	Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

After the cupcakes had cooled I frosted them and added the fondant shapes. I have learned that everytime I make my Sturdy Butter Cream Frosting and my Rolled Buttercream Fondant I have a ton left over. Instead of throwing it away (yes I've done that before) I now freeze it.

What you Need:

Square Cupcake Liners

Square Cupcakes

Frosting (colored green)

Fondant (colored black)

Square cookie Cutters (small and medium)

So today I pulled out my lefter over frosting and fondant and colored it the colors I wanted (using Wilton Icing Color). I frosted the cupcakes Green. I rolled my fondant using my small square cookie cutter I made the eyes. For the mouth I cut a medium square, then took my small cookie cutter to cut the the top left and right and then the bottom middle. I googled the creeper image and printed it out so I could reference it while I did mine.