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Loaded with Sprinkles! Pink Funfetti Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Icing

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Let’s admit it – who doesn’t love SPRINKLES? I always get super excited over recipes that include sprinkles, or just about anything with the word funfetti in it. These pink funfetti cupcakes are absolutely perfect for a girl’s birthday party, baby shower, wedding, or if you are just looking to add some color to your life! To make these cupcakes even better, they are piped with vanilla buttercream frosting, and garnished with pretty pearls of sugar. What are you waiting for? These are super easy to make, so let’s get started! 

 

Loaded with Sprinkles! Pink Funfetti Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Icing

 
Ingredients:
 
For Cupcakes
 
  1. 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
  2. 1 tsp baking powder
  3. ¼ tsp baking soda
  4. ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
  5. 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  6. pinch of salt
  7. 1 large egg
  8. ¼ cup of plain yogurt
  9. ¾ cup milk
  10. 2 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
  11. ½ cup of sprinkles
For Icing
 
  1. Two drops of red food coloring
  2. 12 ounces of unsalted butter, softened
  3. 2 cups of powdered sugar
  4. ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instruction:
 
To Make Cupcakes
 
  1. Line cupcake pan with cupcake liners and preheat oven to 350F. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  2. In a separate bowl, whisk together butter and sugar. Slowly add in the egg, yogurt, milk, and vanilla and mix until incorporated. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until smooth and combined. Then mix in the sprinkles.
  3. Fill cupcake liners with batter and bake for about 20 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
To Make Icing
 
  1. In a mixing bowl using an electric mixer on high, beat butter until light and creamy. Gradually add in sugar, continuously beating on medium until combined. Mix in vanilla extract and two drops of red food coloring.
  2. Using a piping tube, pipe frosting onto completely cooled cupcakes. Add sugar pearls on top of the icing to garnish!

Easy Halloween Pumpkin-Chocolate Marble Cake

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CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN MARBLE CAKE  / EMILY CARLIN / CC BY

 

Fall is here, making pumpkin a staple in our kitchen when it comes to baking. From pumpkin pie, to pumpkin strudel, muffins, and cake, what is there not to love about this sweet, low-calorie food that swings us into the Halloween spirit! The bunt cake we are showcasing today is SUPER EASY to make and makes the perfect combination of pumpkin and chocolate – marbled! After all, a cake isn’t a cake without a dash of chocolate! And did we forget to mention, the glaze is made out of cream cheese? Now we’ve definitely got you hooked…

Easy Halloween Pumpkin-Chocolate Marble Cake

 
Pumpkin chocolate marble bundt cake with cream cheese frosting.
                                       
                                       Cook Time
                                       1 hr 10 min
 
Directions:
 
Pumpkin Cake Batter
 
  1. .75 cups unsalted butter
  2. 3 large eggs
  3. 1 ¼ cups pumpkin, canned
  4. ½ cup granulated sugar
  5. 1 ¾ cups white all purpose flour
  6. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  7. 1 tsp baking powder
  8. 1/2 tsp salt
  9. 1 tsp cinnamon
  10. ½ tsp nutmeg or allspice
  11. Orange food coloring
Chocolate Cake Batter
 
  1. .75 cups unsalted butter
  2. 3 large eggs
  3. 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  4. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  5. 1 cup white all purpose flour
  6. 1 tsp baking powder
  7. ½ tsp salt
  8. ¾ cups cocoa powder
Cream Cheese Frosting
 
  1. 4 ounces of cream cheese at room temperature
  2. ½ cup confectioner’s sugar
  3. 1 tsp salt
  4. 1 tbsp lemon juice
  5. 3 tbsp milk, add more if needed
Instructions:
 
  1. Grease/flour bunt pan and preheat oven to 350 F.
  2. To make pumpkin batter, beat butter and eggs until light and fluffy. Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix until combined. Add a few drops of food coloring to make the batter more orange.
  3.  Follow the same steps to make the chocolate cake batter and then pour in half of the pumpkin batter into the bundt pan. Now pour in half of the chocolate batter, then again the pumpkin batter, and finish off with the chocolate batter again.
  4. Use a knife to gently swirl the cake batters together and create a marbled effect. Bake for about 70 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  5. Remove from oven and let the cake cool in pan for 10 minutes, before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
To Make Cream Cheese Frosting
 
  1. Using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese on high until light and fluffy. Slowly add in sugar and keep beating until combined. Add in salt, lemon juice and milk, and mix on low until frosting comes out smooth without clumps. If glaze is too thick to pour, add in more milk 1 tbsp at a time.

Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake

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A bunt cake that melts in your mouth! Inspired by the fall season just around the corner, this apple chunk banana bunt cake is a spin-off of regular banana bread. I am a huge fan of banana bread and so is everyone in my family – we’ve tried all the combinations you could think of except spicing it up with apples! All I basically did was follow my classic banana bread recipe I posted here and added one large chopped apple to the mix (I also omitted the chocolate). The apples made the bread super duper moist and down right addicting. Baking it in a bunt pan and sprinkling powdered sugar on-top gave it a little more oomph. Here’s the recipe once again: 

Quick tip: Because of the apples, I baked my bread about 10-15 minutes longer than usual because it was really moist. I also covered the top with tin foil near the end to give the insides time to bake and to prevent the top edges from burning!

*If you would like to share my recipe and photos please provide proper credit and a link back. Thanks!  

Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake

 
Ingredients:
 
  1. 1 large apple, chopped into small chunks
  2. 2 cups All purpose flour
  3. 1 cup fine oatmeal
  4. 1 tsp baking soda
  5. 2 tsp baking powder
  6. 1/8 tsp salt
  7. 1 tbsp cinnamon
  8. 1/4 cup oil
  9. 2 tsp vanilla extract
  10. 4 ripe bananas
  11. 2 cups water/yogurt mixture (container of 200g plain yogurt mixed with water and 1.5tbsp of vinegar)
Instructions:
 
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 C and greese a loaf pan.
  2. Mix together flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
  3. Mix yogurt/water mixture together with oil, mashed bananas, and vanilla extract. Combine with the dry ingredients and mix until all lumps disappear. Now fold in the chopped apples.
  4. Pour into loaf pan and bake for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Royal Victoria Sponge Cake With Strawberries

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A sponge cake fit for royalty! This delicious sandwich-like cake is light, fluffy, and the perfect simple dessert to make if your in a rush. Sandwiched between vanilla frosting and strawberry jam, it’s a no-fail cake that looks impressive and expensive. Have guests coming over? Make this cake to blow them away, without the need of any special ingredients or baking skills!

Royal Victoria Sponge Cake With Strawberries

Ingredients:

For the Cake
 
  1. 150g sugar
  2. 175 butter
  3. 3 eggs, beaten
  4. 1 3/4 cup flour
  5. 1.5 tsp baking powder
  6. 1 tsp salt
For the Frosting
 
  1. 150 icing sugar
  2. 75g butter
  3. 1 tsp vanilla
  4. 3 tbsp strawberry jam
Directions:
 
To Make Cake
 
  1. Preheat oven to 356F. Grease and line with parchment paper two 7″ cake pans.
  2. Whip together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Slowly add in eggs and keeping beating/
  3. Fold in flour into butter mixture and pour the batter into the two pans. Bake for about half an hour. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before turning out onto wire rack.
To Make Frosting and to Assemble
 
  1. Whip together butter, sugar and vanilla. Spread icing onto cake layer, leaving a bit for the top of the cake. Spread strawberry jam over icing and sandwich together layers. Place a blob of icing in the center at the top of the cake and decorate with strawberries.

Birthday Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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This delicious Hummingbird cake is will give you an explosion of flavour in just one bite! Stacked between four layers of vanilla cream cheese frosting and a crunchy choice of either pecans or walnuts, you really can’t go wrong with this traditional southern cake. Perfect for a birthday party, family get-together, or even a corporate event – take this opportunity to impress your bosses! 

 

Birthday Cream Cheese Hummingbird Cake

 
Layered hummingbird with cream cheese frosting and your choice of pecans or walnuts!
 
Ingredients:
 
For Cake
 
  1. 3 cups flour
  2. 1.5 cups sugar
  3. 1 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped and toasted
  4. 1 tsp lemon zest
  5. 1 tsp baking soda
  6. 2 tsp cinnamon
  7. 1/2 tsp salt
  8. 3 eggs, beaten
  9. 1 cup oil
  10. 2 tsp vanilla extract
  11. 1 can crushed pineapple (8 ounce can)
  12. 2 bananas, chopped and ripe!
For Frosting
 
  1. 2 packages cream cheese at room temp (2 8oz packages)
  2. 1 cup of butter, at room temp (250g)
  3. 3 cups powdered sugar
  4. 2 tsp vanilla extract
  5. 1 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped and toasted

Directions:

To Make Cake
 
  1. Preheat oven to 350F and grease two 9” round cake pans. Cut out parchment paper to line the pans and then grease that too.
  2. Whisk together the flour, sugar, pecans/walnuts, lemon zest, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
  3. In another bowl, beat together the eggs, oil, and vanilla extract. Mix in pineapple and then mix into flour mixture. Pour batter into pans and bake for about 45 mins. Cool in pans for 20 mins before turning out onto cooling rack.
To Make Frosting
 

Using a mixer, beat cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add in sugar then vanilla, beating constantly.

To Assemble
 

Slice both cake layers in half and spread each layer with 1 cup of frosting. Spread the remainder of the frosting all over the top and sides of the cake and decorate as desired!

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/hummingbird-cake-1

Chocolate Chip Banana Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Topping

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Chocolate and banana is the perfect foundation for ANY cupcake, cake, or even bread recipe! It’s one of the most favorite flavours of many and mixed in with a cream cheese topping, who can resist? These cupcakes are loaded with chocolate chips and have a banana cream cheese topping to cool you down in the summer months and even cozy you up in the winter! Bake away for family and friends, and you surely won’t disappoint! 

Chocolate Chip Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Delicious banana cupcakes with chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting!
 
Ingredients:
 
For Cupcakes
 
  1. Dry Ingredients
  2. 1 ¾ cup flour
  3. 1 cup sugar
  4. 1 tbsp baking powder
  5. ½ tsp salt
  6. 2 tsp vanilla extract or 1 packet vanilla sugar
  7. Wet Ingredients
  8. ½ cup Crisco shortening
  9. 1/3 cup evaporated milk
  10. 2 medium sized ripe bananas, mashed
  11. 2 large eggs
  12. 1 cup chocolate chips
For Cream Cheese Frosting
 
  1. 8 oz (225g) of cream cheese
  2. ½ tsp vanilla extract
  3. ½ cup powdered sugar
  4. 2/3 cup heavy cream, chilled

Instructions:

To Make Cupcakes
 
  1. Set oven to 375F and line cupcake pan with cupcake cups. In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, mix together all the dry ingridients. Slowly mix in the wet ingredients one at a time and then mix in the chocolate chips last with a wooden spoon.
  2. Fill cupcake cups with batter and bake for about 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack until completely cooled.
To Make Frosting
 
  1. In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Slowly add in the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and then the heavy cream until super thick. Pipe frosting onto cooled cupcakes and serve! To store, place cupcakes in airtight containers.

Belgian Waffles with Ice Cream, Nutella, Banana, and Strawberries

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The Belgian Waffle is one of my favorite types of waffles due to its huge size, fancy toppings and unlimited wow factor. If you are looking to surprise or impress someone, the Belgian waffle is the way to go. It’s identified buy it’s larger than average size, light batter, and high grid pattern. It uses yeast to make instead of baking powder. The recipe I’m showing below is straight from Belgium and is one of the few that actually doesn’t use yeast, instead it uses whipped egg whites. 

What’s interesting to know is if you go to Belgium itself, there is no single type of waffle identifies as the ‘Belgian Waffle’ as it does not exist. They have different varieties like the Brussels waffle and the stroopwafel. Try it out and see for yourself!

Belgian Waffles with Ice Cream, Nutella, Banana, and Strawberries

 
Make this delicious desert right at home with all kinds of your favorite unique toppings!
 
Ingredients:
 
Waffle
 
  1.  250g of flour
  2.  Spoonful of sugar
  3.  Pinch of powdered vanilla
  4.  Pinch of salt
  5.  Eight egg yolks
  6.  Half liter of sweetened cream or fresh milk
  7.  250g of butter
  8. Eight egg whites
Toppings
 
  1.  Icing sugar
  2.  Whipped cream
  3.  Nutella
  4.  Ice Cream
  5.  Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, banana
  6.  Butter, maple syrup, orange marmalade
  7.  Cherries, dark chocolate chips
  8.  Walnuts
Instructions:
 
  1. In a mixing bowl mix flour, sugar, vanilla, salt, and egg yolks
  2. Blend in half a liter of sweetened cream or fresh milk and then melt the 250 grams of butter in a pan
  3. Whip the eight egg whites until they are very stiff
  4. Add the melted butter to the original mixture followed by the whipped egg whites
  5. Lightly grease a waffle iron and heat
  6. Fill one side with a good spoonful of the waffle mix and close the iron
  7. Cook until it has a golden color
  8. Serve with some icing sugar or the topping of your choice