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Caramel Apple Spice Cupcakes

July 30, 2020 by Sweet Ordeal Leave a Comment

Caramel Apple Spice Cupcakes Recipe

Delight your taste buds with delicious chunks of crunchy apple in a spiced cupcake. Using an apple pie filling, not only are there crisp chunks of apple, but the sauce is spiced and adds extra moisture to the cake. Caramel Apple Spice Cupcakes perfectly compliment the tart apple, and the light and fluffy buttercream is infused with a stripe of smooth dulce de leche (caramel). Enjoy the sweetness of the frosting plain, or sprinkle some kosher salt on top, because we all love our “sweet and salty.”

The cupcake is scrumptious alone. Seriously. I know, because I ate the first one that was cool enough to eat. Ha! My excuse was that the side cracked a little when I pulled it from the muffin pan. You break it, you buy it.

I tend to “break” a lot of …

Strawberry Buttercream

May 25, 2020 by Sweet Ordeal Leave a Comment

Strawberry Buttercream Recipe

Whip up a batch of Strawberry Buttercream in about 10 minutes for your cakes, cupcakes, and cookies. This super easy frosting is great for decorating and looks beautiful topping all your baked goods.

When you don’t have fresh strawberries or spare time to make reductions, this recipe creates a quick delicious buttercream you’ll love. Made with butter, or shortening if you prefer, it’s a take on a classic…

Mocha Frosting

May 20, 2020 by Sweet Ordeal Leave a Comment

Mocha Frosting Recipe –

Wrap your taste buds around the smooth delicious flavors of coffee and chocolate in this Mocha Frosting recipe. This twist on a classic buttercream recipe is perfect for cupcakes, cookies, cakes, or brownies. See how easy it is to make a fun dual-colored frosting using cocoa and chocolate shavings.

This light and fluffy buttercream can be made ahead of time, plus it’s great for decorating. With only one bowl and a few ingredients, you can whip up a batch in no time, and look how…

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes

February 29, 2020 by Sweet Ordeal Leave a Comment

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes Recipe

Strawberry and lemon together for a perfect compliment to any celebration. Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes have a moist strawberry cupcake with a smooth creamy lemon pudding filling. The frosting is a combination of strawberry and lemon flavors to perfectly top off this delicious cupcake.

Who doesn’t love the surprise of lemon pudding in the middle of a cupcake? C’mon now, seriously! Lemon pudding mixed with Cool Whip fills the center of these Strawberry cupcakes. To keep things easy-peasy,…

Brown Butter Pecan Cupcakes

November 6, 2019 by Sweet Ordeal 1 Comment

Brown Butter Pecan Cupcakes Recipe

Enjoy this decadent dessert made with brown butter in the frosting topped with candied roasted pecans. Brown Butter Pecan Cupcakes are easy to make, but they taste deliciously complicated.

There is a uniquely elevated quality about the flavor of brown butter, yet it’s very easy to make. The cupcakes are made from a Betty Crocker cake mix, so that’s about as easy as that part gets. That leaves the …

Pumpkin Pudding Frosting

September 13, 2019 by Sweet Ordeal 1 Comment

Pumpkin Pudding Frosting Recipe

The perfect compliment to any cake or cupcake is cool delicious frosting. Pumpkin Pudding Frosting is so light and fluffy, it’s hard not to love. I especially love that it’s not too sweet. In addition, it looks beautiful, pipes really great, and you’ll love working with it. Great things about Pumpkin Pudding Frosting: it has only 3 ingredients, and it’s lower in calories than buttercream or cream cheese frostings. Awesome!

Pumpkin flavored pudding?

During Fall it seems that everything comes in pumpkin flavor, so why not frosting? Jell-O puts out an amazing pumpkin pudding that is so yummy it cannot be ignored. I only find it during Fall, so stock on up it if you like it as much as I do. The pumpkin frosting goes great on lots of flavors like chocolate, yellow, white, and spice, which is seen here….

Pumpkin Pudding Cake with Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting

September 9, 2019 by Sweet Ordeal 1 Comment

Pumpkin Pudding Cake with Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Satisfy your pumpkin cravings with this moist pumpkin cake. The pumpkin flavoring comes from one of my all-time favorite puddings: Pumpkin Spice Pudding by Jell-O. Add the pudding mix to a white cake and it all falls together. You’ll love the way the cake rises so evenly, I didn’t even have to level the top before frosting. The smooth creamy frosting has cinnamon in it to perfectly compliment the Autumn theme of the cake. Pumpkin Pudding Cake with Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting is simply delicious!

Making Pumpkin Pudding Cake

Adding the pudding to a cake mix means you’ll need to add more moisture to the mix besides the eggs, oil, and water. I love to add almond milk into my recipes because it keeps cakes moist and adds a subtle vanilla flavor. It also bakes well. Whenever I mix wet with dry ingredients, like in this recipe, I put all of the wet ingredients into the bowl first. They get thoroughly mixed together…

Easy Strawberry Cupcakes

May 10, 2019 by Sweet Ordeal 2 Comments

Easy Strawberry Cupcakes Recipe

These Easy Strawberry Cupcakes have a surprise strawberry pudding filling in the center, and real strawberries in the frosting. Perfect for any party or celebration, these cupcakes are a crowd pleaser. Using the fresh strawberries reminds me of the strawberry festival in Santa Maria, California. Strawberries everywhere and in everything. Well, it’s strawberry season again and I love it!

Making Strawberry Cupcakes

Have your fresh ingredients ready…here we go….

Pistachio Cookie Cake

February 22, 2019 by Sweet Ordeal 2 Comments

Pistachio Cookie Cake Recipe

Here is a great tasting cake that I’m so happy to share with you. Oreo came out with a new flavor cookie called Oreo Thins, Pistachio flavor. I just knew I had to throw some into a cake, so here you go: Pistachio Cookie Cake.

I saw the bag for the new flavor of Oreo Thins – Pistachio, and it reminded me of an old recipe I had. This old recipe used chunks of cookie in the cake batter, which is so cool to bite into. Here’s a beautifully …

Tropical Ambrosia Cupcakes

November 29, 2018 by Sweet Ordeal Leave a Comment

Tropical Ambrosia Cupcakes Recipe

Imagine yourself biting into a beautiful little cupcake; smelling the orange cupcake and the toasted coconut on top of the vanilla buttercream frosting. Now imagine your pleasant surprise at finding Ambrosia Salad inside the cupcake. All of those amazing flavors beautifully blended together in one little package called Tropical Ambrosia Cupcakes. Love it!

Ambrosia Salad Filling

I love ambrosia salad…I could eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The combination of pineapple, mandarin oranges, cherries, pecans, and those adorable little marshmallows is genius. Add to that the crunch of pecans. So good! The idea popped into my head to fill an orange flavored cupcake with this…

French Toast Cupcakes

May 11, 2018 by Sweet Ordeal 2 Comments

French Toast Cupcakes Recipe

I’m so excited to share this French Toast Cupcakes recipe with you. This is a light cinnamony cupcake with a hidden crumbly streusel under a light maple buttercream frosting. It all came about when a friend (Margie) asked me for some cupcakes using maple buttercream frosting. I immediately starting thinking about buttery maple syrup and French Toast. I may have been hungry at the time. Well, I didn’t have a tried and true recipe for maple buttercream frosting so it was game on!

First I created my version of maple buttercream frosting that holds it shape when piped. Then, because I bake for my local rescue mission and needed some cupcakes for that Tuesday, I took the creative liberty…

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

April 11, 2018 by Sweet Ordeal Leave a Comment

This delicious Vanilla Buttercream Frosting recipe will become your favorite, especially if you plan on doing a little decorating. Since it makes a large batch, easily enough for 24 cupcakes and a 2-layer 8″ cake, you’ll have plenty for the frosting, the decorating, and maybe even extra for freezing. I don’t often bake that much at one time, but when I make my Vanilla Raspberry Cake & Cupcakes, I need a recipe that fits the bill. In addition, I love it when I have more than enough…have you ever run out of frosting in the middle of a job? Ugh…a wee bit frustrating. You’ll love this buttercream frosting recipe for all of it’s conveniences.

Buttercream Frosting

You’ll love the mixture of buttery goodness combined with the structure of shortening, which gives it a great feel for decorating. I start out with the frosting on the thinner, more spreadable side to frost the cake, then thicken it up for the hydrangeas with the powdered sugar. This helps the flowers maintain…