Cupcakes for Everyone!
Hubby and I were visiting family while on our big Midwest road trip this summer and we spent a couple days with “the kids” (aka my younger siblings). My little sister loves to bake. She’s been baking for at least two years and she’s only 12. So when we hang out, we like to bake together. I had just gotten my new cupcake cookbook – Crazy About Cupcakes – and was eager to try another recipe. The first recipe I made from the book (Spiced cupcakes) only made 12 and we wanted about 3-4 dozen cupcakes.
We decided to pick 2 different recipes and double each one, thinking we’d end up with ~4 dozen cupcakes. Well, each of the 2 recipes we chose happened to make about 20 cupcakes so we ended up with around 80! Needless to say, we had cupcakes for everyone! We chose to make peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate frosting and cookies-n-cream cupcakes!
We cheated and used store bought chocolate whipped icing for the peanut butter cupcakes and used this recipe to make the frosting for the cookies-n-cream cupcakes. We crushed up some Oreos and mixed them in as well. 
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Browned butter is amazing, especially in cookies. Sounds like another recipe I need to try soon!
beantownbaker — May 16th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm
You’re definitely going to want to make these after you see what I did with them in a post coming up on Monday 😉
Yeah, browned butter just makes everything taste that much better. I may overuse it just a little bit in my cooking though!
beantownbaker — May 16th, 2013 @ 8:41 am
No such thing as overusing browned butter.
i can only imagine how this totally kicks up a snickerdoodle. <3 browned butter!
Browned butter and cinnamon! Can’t wait to try it!
Between the browning butter and the fresh scent of baked cookies, your kitchen must have smelled marvelous.
Oh my! These look delightful 🙂 I love browned butter too!