Peanut Butter Pattie Cupcake

This cupcake was obviously inspired by my favorite Girl Scout cookie, the Peanut Butter Pattie.  It's a peanut butter cake filled with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, frosted with peanut butter frosting, drizzled with dark chocolate ganache, and garnished with a Peanut Butter Pattie.  This version has a lot of peanut butter, so if that is your thing, you will love it. 

Blue Moon Cupcake

In October, while attending an Emporia State Alumni event at The Boulevard Brewery, someone asked me if I could create a Wheat beer cupcake.  I told him, "Yes," but I never followed through.  Finally today I decided to attempt it.  Since I am a Blue Moon fan, this is the beer I chose to use.  The cake is made with orange zest, coriander, buttermilk and Blue Moon.  It tastes very similar to a spice cake.  The frosting is made with cream cheese, orange zest and a little Blue Moon.  It's garnished with an orange wedge with the peel left on.  I think it's delicious, but I am a fan of coriander.  My tongue is still tingling from the spice.

My daughters like to make Cupcakes too!

So it's been three months since I baked a new cupcake.  I did one new cupcake a week for eight weeks and I guess I got burned out.  I've still been baking, I just haven't come up with anything new in awhile.  Haven, however, has been decorating like a star!  I am posting her MINI FLOWER CUPCKAKE.  She saw a picture of this cupcake and then figured out how to make it completely on her own.  She even made a "how-to" video.

Briley made a lot of awesome cupcakes too.  This one below was her favorite design.  We had a fun time decorating on New Year's Day.