Happy Birthday!!
We were going for a pub crawl to celebrate Hubby’s college roommate’s birthday. I offered to bring cupcakes. He loves coffee flavored things, so I had quite a few options when I flipped through Crazy about Cupcakes. I decided on the Carmel Mocha cupcakes.
As usual, when I start baking, I get really excited and tend to bake way too much. Since I wanted to make the Carmel Mocha cupcakes “full-dairy” for the birthday boy, I wanted to make some cupcakes that I would be able to eat. I decided to use some strawberry preserves that we had paired with French Vanilla cupcakes. When I make two batches, I tend to make one from scratch and one from a box mix.
Everyone said the Carmel Mocha cupcakes were great, and I loved the strawberry filled cupcakes. Overall it was a baking success!
So i just made this over the weekend, in a rush, in like 2-3 hrs, for a party.
It won the best dessert!
It wasn’t that difficult,though i think it was a bit expensive, because i didn’t have things like peppermint extract and such.
Instead of crushed candy canes i put crushed peppermint bark chocolates.
thanks for the awesome recipe!!!
beantownbaker — December 18th, 2013 @ 1:03 pm
Congrats on winning! How exciting. Glad you enjoyed the recipe. It’s one of my favorites.