100% NUT free Cupcake Bakery!

The Cupcake Shoppe Website: http://www.thecupcakeshoppe.ca

Location: 2417 Yonge Street, Toronto

Check out the gallery! They have some really neat cupcake designs for all occasions!

Weddings, Birthdays, Baby Showers, Just Because, Girls Night, Mother's Day, Father's Day and the list goes on and on!!

All cupcakes are baked fresh daily and 100% nut free!!

Graduation Cupcakes!

Denise showed me this today! I thought it was cute (as we are close to graduation!!!). Hmm maybe i will have to attempt this, when all my work is done of course!

Heres the recipe incase anyone is interested:

what you need!

1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow or white cake mix

1 env. Kool-Aid Unsweetened Orange Drink Mix

3 squares Baker's Semi-Sweet Chocolate, melted

12 Honey Maid Graham Wafer, broken crosswise in half (12 squares)

2 cups thawed Cool Whip Whipped Topping

2 fruit roll snacks, any colour

24 jelly beans

make it!

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Line 24 muffin pan cups with paper liners. Prepare cake batter as directed on package. Stir in drink mix until well blended. Spoon into muffin cups. Bake 20 to 25 min. or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean; cool.

SPREAD 1 tsp. melted chocolate onto each graham square to cover entire top of cracker. Place on baking sheet. Refrigerate until hardened. Remove paper from cupcakes. Turn upside down. Using wooden spoon handle, make small tunnel from top to bottom in centre of cupcake. Place whipped topping in small resealable plastic bag. Snip corner; pipe small amount of whipped topping into each cupcake. Place remaining whipped topping on top. Top with chocolate covered graham to make "cap".

CUT each fruit roll into 3-inch segments to make "tassels." Using a small sharp knife cut "fringes." Place on top of cap with jelly bean in centre, using a small amount of whipped topping as glue.

Kitchens tips

SUBSTITUTE

To make all white graduation caps, spread additional whipped topping on top of grahams instead of chocolate. Line them up in rows for a black and white graduation!

Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

For all you Lemon Meringue Pie lovers! who would have thought you could make cupcakes, I will have to try this, to see if they taste as good as they look!!

 Check it out: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/lemon-meringue-cupcakes?&backto=true&backtourl=/photogallery/fancy-cupcakes#slide_1

Makes 24

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs, room temperature
• Finely grated zest of 3 lemons (about 3 tablespoons), plus 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup buttermilk
• Lemon Curd
• Seven-Minute Frosting

• Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
  2. With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until each is until incorporated, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Beat in zest and vanilla. Add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with two additions of buttermilk and lemon juice, and beating until just combined after each.
  3. Divide batter evenly among lined cups, filling each three-quarters full. Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until golden brown and a cake tester inserted in centers comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Transfer tins to wire racks to cool completely before removing cupcakes. Cupcakes can be stored overnight at room temperature, or frozen up to 2 months, in airtight containers.
  4. To finish, spread 1 tablespoon lemon curd onto middle of each cupcake. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a large open-star tip (Ateco #828 or Wilton #8B) with frosting. Pipe frosting onto each cupcake, swirling tip slightly and releasing as you pull up to form a peak. Hold a small kitchen torch 3 to 4 inches from surface of frosting, and wave it back and forth until frosting is lightly browned all over. Serve immediately.

Cupcake Girls

A cupcake bakery started in Vancouver called Cupcakes.  Check out this site! http://www.cupcakesonline.com/

Also, The W Network is running a program based on two best friends Heather and Lori who opened up the chain of cupcake stores. A reality TV show based aroun

d their business and their lives.  It premiered last night! Watch it online: 

http://www.wnetwork.com/Shows/TheCupcakeGirls.aspx