The Favourites!

This post is dedicated to the favourites! Let's just say, Mr. Reese definitely had it right when he mixed chocolate and peanut butter together creating one of life's best pairings! 

From top to bottom - Chocolate with a rich chocolate cream cheese frosting - because you can never go wrong with chocolate, chocolate peanut butter chip with a peanut butter cream cheese frosting (topped with a mini reese peanut butter cup!) and a caramel cupcake with a caramel butter cream (with a hint of salt!) Who knew that salt would make a cupcake so delicious!

Let me know what your favourite cupcake flavour is :) I am always interested in experimenting with new flavours.

How to make cupcake liners stick

I have been busy making lots of cupcakes for the holiday season. It is always a good feeling when you pull out a batch of cupcakes from the oven and they look perfect.  On the other hand, when you pull a batch from the oven that look less than stellar, I am often left wondering, what went wrong?!

The last mishap I have encountered was cupcake liners not sticking to the cupcake.  This was quite disappointing especially when they were cute (and more expensive!) Christmas liners.  I did some research into why this might happen and realized that letting the cupcakes cool too long in the pan was the culprit (in my case.)  As the cupcakes cooled in the pan, they slowly peeled away from the liner.  This could be fixed easily if it was just a small peel (yay for sugar water!) but not when the whole liner peeled off. 

My advice, as soon as you can manage to get the cupcake out of the pan (careful not to burn your fingers!) get them out and onto a cooling rack. Let cool completely, frost and enjoy!

I love Christmas.  I love seeing family and friends.  I love giving gifts.  I love all of the food! Especially the foods that really are only around during the holidays! Ever since my friend introduced me to PC Candy Cane Ice Cream when I was in grade 7, I have adored all things candy cane and peppermint flavoured! So when thinking about what type of cupcake I wanted to make next, it was the obvious choice.  This cupcake is  white chocolate peppermint with a subtle white chocolate peppermint buttercream icing.  So good!