Acorn and Turkey 2012 Cupcakes

 Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
The acorn cupcakes I made for my parents when they were here this past weekend.
  I love Thanksgiving. Each year we make some kind of  candy and cookie turkey. This year these turkey cupcakes went with Emma-lea to seminary.

Little Eagles Cupcakes

 

Tomorrow is Election Day are you ready to vote?  Maddy's School is our voting place,they are the Little Eagles. These cupcakes are my donation to the bake sale.



The Glen Haven Eagles 

Falling Leaves Cupcakes

Triple Chocolate Cupcakes and Salted Caramel Butter cream frosting .

 

The idea for these cupcake decorations are from stephaniecooks.blogspot.com 2009

 I wanted to make cupcakes for Maddy's Halloween party at school but with restrictions they had to be store bought.  BUMMER!  But that's not going to stop me. We have a meeting tonight to plan the ward Christmas party.  So guess what they are getting as a treat.

Black Cat Cookies

I made about 90 of these cute cookies.

Center pieces for the 2012 Halloween party.

The activity day girls in our ward hand painted these pots.

 

THANK YOU REBECCA FOR YOUR WONDERFUL IDEA! (To find the recipe for these cookies go to http://www.rd.com/food/black-cat-cookies-recipe/

Pretzel Pumpkin Cupcake

Its finally October ! I love cupcakes and I love the fall.The changing leaves, apple cider, pumpkins and crisp cool days this is my favorite time of year . My Pretzel Pumpkin cupcake is a chocolate cupcake warmed up with spices such as cinnamon ,nutmeg,allspice and cardamom topped with an orange cream cheese buttercream frosting. Topped with a pretzel pumpkin .                                     
My 8 yr.old daughter Maddy made the fleese pumpkin at church the other night there is a roll of toilet paper inside ! So cute!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins with Streusel topping

My daughter Emma-Lea asked me the other day if I could make something for her for breakfast. She wanted  something she could eat in the car on our way to seminary at 5:15 am .I made Banana Bread last week .This week it is Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Streusel muffins .I started with Pillsbury Quick Bread and Muffin mix and added chocolate chips to the batter about 1cup .The topping is 2tbs of each of the following cinnamon sugar,brown sugar,flour,and butter combine with a fork in a small bowl until it looks crumbly like wet sand .Top each muffin with topping and bake at 400degrees for 15 to20 minutes.makes 15 muffins .

 I do know how to make these from scratch I have a wonderful recipe that I grew up with that my parents made all the time .My Husband Ernie was given the box of mix last year as a Christmas gift so I thought I would use it and I have to say they are really good!

Labor Day Picnic Apple Cupcakes

 Today was the Labor Day Picnic for the Kensington Ward .
The girls had fun with their new friends .Ernie played softball and I got to know the people in our new ward .I think I am going to like it here.
 I think the cupcakes would be cute for back to school too.
Apple for the teacher or something like that.