Cookie-in-a-Cupcake

Cookie-in-a-Cupcake

This week I had a bake sale and couldn't decide whether I should make cupcakes or cookies.... so naturally I just made both. Everyone at the bake sale loved them and both batches completely sold out!

I started by making vanilla cupcake batter. 

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Ingredients:                                                                                                               Yield: 12 Cupcakes

2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened          

3/4 cup sugar                                        

1 1/2 cup self rising flour                     

3 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F 

2- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy using an electric mixer

3- Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each

4- Add vanilla and flour. Mix just until fully incorporated

The next step was to make the batter for my chocolate chip cookies.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:                                                                                                                      Yield: 4 dozen 

1 cup unsalted softened butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

1- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2- In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla until light and fluffy

3- Beat in eggs

4- Add flour, salt, and baking soda and beat until fully blended

5- Stir in chocolate chips

Once both batters are complete, fill your cupcake tins with a thin layer of cupcake batter.

Once that is in, place a dollop of cookie batter in the middle. 

Then fill the rest of the cupcake wrapper with cupcake batter, completely covering the cookie dough.

You can take the rest of the cookie dough and bake them on a baking tray in the oven for 15 minutes to be used for decoration.

Place the cupcake tray in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until the cupcakes look golden brown.

Once the cupcakes are out, allow them to cool before you decorate them. 

Pipe a swirl of creamy white icing onto the cupcake. Then you can place a finished cookie and place it on the top on an angle for decoration. Your cookie-in-a-cupcake cupcakes are now done!

They will look delicious and taste evcen better! I hope you enjoy making and eating these cupcakes!

Happy baking and

don't forget to put a burry on it!

xoxo- Rayburry

Pi Day Cake!

Pi Day Cake

As many of you know, today is pi day.... not to be confused with pie day. Today is 

March 13, 2015 or 3/14/15 which is pi day because pi is 3.1415. So in honor of this very amazing nerdy day I made a cake! I know you are probably asking yourself why I made a cake and not a pie, well my answer for you is simple. I had a really cool pan.

The first step is to make the cake. I used this recipe for yellow cake. You have two options for your cake. You can either make one cake or make a double layer cake. I did both as I took the layer cake into school for a pi day party in math class and my parents took the single cake into work with them. This recipe is for one 9x13 inch pan or two 9 inch round pans so in order to make the double-layer cake just double the recipe.

Yellow Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

2 cups self-rising flour

1 1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup softened unsalted butter

1 cup milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream together the butter and sugar.
Beat in the eggs.
Add the flour, milk, and vanilla and beat to a soft smooth batter.
Bake 20-30 minutes in the preheated oven or until testers come out clean.

Once your cake or cakes is/are complete and completely cooled it is time to deceorate. Take your vanilla icing and cover your entire cake. If you decided on making a double-layer cake you are going to carefully place your second cake on top of the first. Take your icing and cover the entire top cake with it as well. 

If you are a nerd, kinda like me, then you can use decorating icing to write on your cake. I only wrote a few numbers on the top of my pi symbol, but I wrote 3.14159265. Feel free to not write on your cake at all, or write 100 digits of pi if you realy want.

Have a wonderful pi day!

Don't forget to put a burry on it!

xoxo- Rayburry

Sword Cupcakes

Sword Cupcakes

The other day I am sitting at home, minding my own business, when I get a text from my sister, 'Can you make me Persain War cupcakes?'. My first thought when reading this text was, what is a 'Persian War cupcake'? Well, after some thinking I decided a sword would work well. So this is how I went about making sword cupcakes.

I started by making vanilla cupcakes using my usual recipe, which you can find on Cookie in a Cupcake  post and I piped a swirl of vanilla icing on top.

My next step was taking white fondant and rolling it out to be about an 1/8 inch thick.
Using 2 1/4 inch cookie cutters I cut out 24 fondant circles.

I then drew my swords. To do this I took a tube of gold and a tube of black decorating icing. I drew one small black line a little below the center of the circle. 

I then connected another black line going in the opposite direction to create the handle of the sword.

Once the handle is completed, it is time to draw the blade of the sword. I found the easiest way to do this was to take your gold decorating icing and draw three separate lines. Your first line should be  a long line from the edge of your handle to just below the top of the circle. The line should be even with the line of the handle.

To finish the blade, take the gold decorating icing and draw two thin lines on each side of the center line. Make these two lines end a little bit earlier than your middle line to give the tip of the sword a point.

Lastly, take your fondant circles with your beautifully drawn swords and gently place them atop the iced cupcakes. 

And that's it! Simple sword cupcakes for all your weaponry cupcake needs. Next time someone needs pirate desserts, edible video game weaponry, or Persian War cupcakes, you will be able to deliver.

Happy baking and

Don't forget to put a burry on it!

xoxo- Rayburry