Peaches and Cream cupcakes/Chocolate mint cupcakes

Last night our beautiful Young Women and valiant Boy Scouts held a pasta dinner, auction and bake sale to earn money for their separate summer camps

These are the cupcakes I donated to the cause. I hope they made alot of money!

Chocolate and Strawberry Cupcakes

http://www.yourcupofcake.com/2012/06/strawberry-pop-tart-cupcakes.html This is the recipe I followed.I added 1/2 a cup of mini chocolate chips  and 1 cup chopped freeze dried strawberry slices to the batter.To a can of vanilla frosting I added 1/4 of a cup of pulverized freeze dried strawberries and mixed it well. I swirled it ontop of the cupcakes and topped with mini chocolate chips.

Melt My Heart Cupcakes

For all those who melt my heart every day.
Happy Valentine's Day!.

The Melt My Heart Cupcakes are for Emma-Lea's seminary class.
Who do you think the candy bouquet is for ?

Melted Heart cupcakes

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Oreos are Caroline's favorite treat. She is one of the beautiful young ladies I teach on Sunday. She just turned 12 so I wanted to do something for her birthday and Valentines Day.     I also love Dove Chocolates. The blog were I found the Idea for the Melted Hearts is listed below .             

  

http://iwashyoudry.com/2013/01/25/you-melt-my-heart-cookie-valentines/

Game Day Cupcakes

   Well, I wish the Patriots were going to the Super Bowl. Better luck next year.
We still plan to watch the game any way .
  Maddy really wanted to make some cupcakes so I followed her lead.
We started with a yellow cake mix batter added 1 cup mashed banana,1 cup of her favorite crushed breakfast cereal a chocolate and peanut butter corn puff. We mixed in 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter.They came out really delicious.To decorate we unwrapped a few Hershey's Chocolate Easter eggs. Did you know they already have them out in the stores .With some melted white chocolate we piped on the laces and made the field goal post and green frosting for the grass.I think they turned out cute.

Maddy's Cupcake with 3 goal posts.

Chocolate Cupcake with Cookie Butter Frosting

Cookie Butter!  I had never heard of it before. I found it at Trader Joe's. Its very much like peanut butter but has a gingerbread cookie taste. I mixed about 1\3 of a cup of cookie butter into 2 cups of vanilla frosting until well incorporated.The mixture now tastes like sugar cookies. Piped a swirl of frosting onto the top of some chocolate cupcakes. Then came the chocolate covered Cheerios. Plain Cheerios dipped in melted chocolate. A labor of love and well worth it,very addicting!

Eggnog Quick Bread

My kids are not fond of eggnog, but I love the stuff. Its not the holidays with out it. Its a lot to drink all by my self. I found this quick bread recipe on allrecipes.com. My Husband likes it so its a keeper.