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Sweet Thursday: Muffins & Breads

August 20, 2009 6 Comments

It’s time for our Sweet Thursday Muffin & Bread round-up! Big thanks to this month’s contributors! These are some yummy treats!

Join the Round-Up: If you have posted a dessert that goes with this month’s theme and would like to be included in my round-up, just leave your link in the comments section and I’ll add your dessert to the post.

Next Month’s Sweet Thursday Theme will be: Cookies. If you’d like to be featured in the next Sweet Thursday Round-Up, send an email with a link to your post to simplysweethome@hotmail.com. Deadline: September 24.

Black Berry Muffins from Snooky Doodle cakes & more

Deluxe Apple Muffins with Streusal Topping Chaya’s Comfy Cook Blog


Cinnamon Bran Muffins from I Blame My Mother

Carrot Cupcakes from Snooky Doodle cakes & more

Black Berry Cream Cupcakes from Snooky Doodle cakes & more

Cinnamon Sweet Bread from Nina’s Recipes

Chocolate Zucchni Muffins from Barbara Bakes

Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins from Obsessed with Baking

Banana Bread from Simply Sweet Home

I’d love to have more Sweet Thursday bakers. It’s a great way to share recipes and show off your blog, so if you’re already posting a recipe that will fit in with our theme, you might as well send it our way. To be a part of my Sweet Thursday Cookie Round-up in September, just email your submission to me by Sept 24. For more information on this event, check out my Sweet Thursday guidelines.

-Jerri


Filed Under: breads and sides, cupcakes, recipes, Sweet Thursday

Wedding & Shower Cupcakes

June 26, 2009 12 Comments

I love the idea of a Rocky Mountain Wedding.  It’s a perfect mix of romance with a cozy, country, rustic appeal. A few weeks ago someone asked me if I had any ideas for some wedding cupcakes. This got me to searching online, where I found a lot of lovely ideas. Today I’m sharing some of the beautiful wedding and shower cupcakes that I found. I absolutely love these; you can tell that a lot of creativity goes into each one, and I love seeing all the different colors and variety of designs.

As always, I’ve included links to the sites or flickr account where these came from, and I totally recommend all these sites. In fact, as I was sending out messages in order to get permission to use the photos, it was really hard choosing just one cupcake from each artist. Hope you all enjoy!

Happy Find

Just Cupcakes

By Paula Thomas Blog

By Kylie Lambert

 

(I know it’s not a cupcake, but they were so pretty, I had to include them!)

-Jerri


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I’m posting at Hooked on Houses for Hooked on Fridays.

Filed Under: cupcakes, party ideas

Patriotic Cupakes

June 22, 2009 10 Comments
This week’s recipe comes from Taste of Home. Their website is full of great recipes for all occasions, and they have great magazines that are very affordable.

These Patriotic cupcakes would be perfect for your Fourth of July party or picnic, and you could use different colors of food coloring for other occasions as well. It’s very easy and fun recipe that all you cupcakes fans should love.

Recipe for Patriotic Cupcakes:
Ingredients:
1 package (18-1/4 ounces) white cake mix
1/2 teaspoon blue food coloring
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
Red, white and blue sprinkles
Directions: Prepare cake batter according to package directions. In a small bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and blue food coloring. In another bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and red food coloring. Leave remaining batter plain. Fill paper-lined muffin cups with 2 tablespoons red batter, 2 tablespoons plain batter and 2 tablespoons blue batter. Bake at 350° for 20-24 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Frost with vanilla frosting; decorate with sprinkles. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

-Jerri



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Tempt My Tummy Tuesday is hosted by Blessed With Grace.
Homemaker Mondays is hosted by 11th Heaven’s Homemade Haven.
Making A Happy Home Monday is hosted by As For Me and My House….
Make Something Monday is hosted by Go Graham Go! and Jolly Mom and Diana Rambles.
Tasty Tuesday is hosted by Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.
I Am Blissfully Domestic is hosted by Blissfully Domestic.
Ultimate Recipe is Swap is hosted by Life as Mom.
Friday Feasts is hosted by Momtrends.
Works for Me Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family
Hooked on Fridays is hosted by Hooked on Houses

Filed Under: cupcakes, Misc Holidays, Patriotic, Recipe of the Week

Sweet Thursday: Cupcake Round-Up

May 14, 2009 7 Comments

I’m very excited about this month’s Sweet Thursday Round-Up. I just love looking at cupcakes on the web. There are so many unique flavors and methods of decoration out there, it’s just mind blowing! And the cupcakes in our round-up are no exception to this. Thanks to everyone for allowing your cupcakes to be featured here.

If you have a cupake that you’d like to submit to this round up, just leave your link in the comments section of this post, and I’ll add you to the round-up as soon as I can!
The next Sweet Thursday round-up will be on June 18, and since I featured cupcakes this time, for next month, I’ll feature *cakes.* To have your cake featured in the round-up, just email a link to your post to simplysweethome@hotmail.com. (If you don’t have a blog, you can send in a URL where you’re photos are being hosted, or send in a photo as an attachment, and I’ll get those up for you, as well.)
Strawberry Shortcake Babycakes from Five Star Sweets

Lemon Drop Babycakes from Five Star Sweets


Baby Coconut Bites from Snooky Doodle Cakes & More

Cherry Coke Float Cupcakes from Coco Bean

PB & J Cupcakes from Life in a Peanut Shell

Strawberry Crush Soda Cupcakes from Sweet Melissa Light

Margarita Cupcakes from Obsessed with Cupcakes

Full Moon Cupcakes from love-a-cupcake

Spring Flower Cupcakes from Nina’s Culinary Creations

Black Bottom Cupcakes with Goat Cheese from Project Cupcake

Breast Cancer Awareness Cupcakes from Hoosier Homemade

Mother’s Day Cupcakes from Snooky Doodle Cakes & More

Candy Bar Cupcakes from B’s Huron lighthouse

My Internet Pick – Cappuccino Chip Cupcakes from Taste of Home

Birthday Cupcakes from Simply Sweet Home

Thanks for stopping by for Sweet Thursday, and thanks again to all my participants! Don’t forget to stop by for next month’s Cake Round-Up. And feel free to send in a submission any time between now and June 18.

-Jerri


Filed Under: cupcakes, Sweet Thursday

Hubby’s Birthday Cupcakes

May 11, 2009 22 Comments

No recipe this week. Instead, I’m sharing the cupcakes that I made for my husband’s birthday last month. I decided to share these this week, so that I would have an entry for my own cupcake round-up this Thursday.

My husband is very easy to please in the dessert department. He’ll try just about anything, but he only has a few things that he just absolutely LOVES. This is both good and bad. It’s good because I don’t have to go out of my way and make anything very elaborate for him to like it, but it sort of puts a damper on trying new recipes when I know he’d rather have one of his old faithfuls.

Anyway, in the cake department, he likes coconut cake and yellow cake with chocolate icing. Last year I made a yellow sheet cake with chocolate icing, but this year I wanted to do cupcakes instead. (Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that I am no cake decorator by any stretch of the imagination (obviously), but at least I tried.)

I have to admit, there’s nothing like a plain chocolate iced cupcake! They looked so yummy, I decided to leave a few undecorated.
For the cupcake that would go at the top and center of the cupcake tree, I topped it with a Samoa Cookie and stuck a candle in the middle. My husband loves those cookies!

Here’s the tree. In the future I’d like to use ribbon/tissue and what not to make it a little more attractive, but seeing as we weren’t having a big birthday party, I saw no reason to do that this time.

In fact, my husband was impressed with the cupcake tree. He was with me when I bought it, but I guess he wasn’t paying attention or he didn’t remember it. So he was pretty wow’d by it, and was telling everyone about it later on.

For the other cupcakes, I used shredded coconut, candy sprinkles, and little Cadbury Mini Eggs.

I hope you all enjoyed these. I really enjoyed making them and EATING them!

By the way, don’t forget to stop by on Thursday. I have several delicious looking cupcakes for this week’s round-up. There’s still time if you’d like for me to include you. Just send me a link to your cupcake post before Thursday or if you don’t have a blog, just email me your photo, and I’ll put them up. OR you can leave a link in the comments section of Thursday’s post, and I’ll add you to the round-up as soon as I can.
Next week I’ll be back with a new recipe. Have a good week!

-Jerri


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I’m posting a link to this post on the following sites:
Tempt My Tummy Tuesday is hosted by Blessed With Grace.
Homemaker Mondays is hosted by 11th Heaven’s Homemade Haven.
Making A Happy Home Monday is hosted by As For Me and My House….
Kitchen Tip Tuesdays is hosted by Tammy’s Recipes
Make Something Monday is hosted by Go Graham Go! and Jolly Mom and Diana Rambles.
Tasty Tuesday is hosted by Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.
I Am Blissfully Domestic is hosted by Blissfully Domestic.
Ultimate Recipe is Swap is hosted by Life as Mom.

Filed Under: cupcakes, desserts

The Best of Simply Sweet Home: The Christmas Recipe Edition

December 9, 2008 8 Comments


Time for more of my favorite posts from a year ago. I did a lot of Christmas recipe posts last year, and since this is Recipe Week in my little Christmas festival, I thought it would be a good time to revisit last December’s recipes.

I recommend the appetizers and the holiday poke cupcakes, but that’s just me! My husband recommends the coconut macaroons. (Unless you’re coming to my house; in which case, they’re no good. lol.)

Appetizers:
Christmas Pinwheels
Crunchy Cheese Crisps
Sausage Balls

Desserts:
Coconut Macaroons
Peppermint Brittle
Fantasy Fudge
Holiday Poke Cakes
Chocolate Bon Bons
Rudolph Cupcakes


-Jerri


Filed Under: appetizers and snacks, Best Posts, cookies and candy, cupcakes, recipes

Halloween Treats That Will Leave Them Screaming for More

October 24, 2008 1 Comment

Here’s another links & pics post. This week I’ve looked up some “witchy” desserts to post for Halloween. If you’re looking for a Halloween party dessert or just something fun to fix for your family, you’re sure to find something here. I think I’ve pretty much covered all the bases so that there’s something for everybody, from the simple to the more complex recipes, from a little bit of sweetness to the decidantly rich. And if you don’t like these, there are a lot more choices on the sites where I found these.

Don’t you all just love looking at all the fun ideas out there? My hat goes off to all the people that actually come up with these projects. I just wish I had the time (& money for all the ingredients) to try them all. But I’m sure in the future, after we have our kids, I’ll get the chance to try just a few at least.

Jack-o-Lantern Cake – This is one of my favorites out of all the desserts I looked at. It’s just lovely and very professional looking!

Ghost Cupcakes – I just had to post these up because I honestly wouldn’t have known they were cupcakes if they had not been labeled as such.

Halloween Pumpkin Bars – I’m not a fan of pumpkin myself, but I thought these were cute, not to mention very simple. And I suppose, if you’re like me and aren’t exactly a pumpkin fan either, you could use this same concept with brownies or some other kind of cake/bar.

Scarecrow Cake – Similar to the Jack-o-lantern cake, the decorations on this scarecrow cake are waffle cones and fruit roll ups. Very cute! And this one will be a great Thanksgiving cake as well. Or if you know any Wizard of Oz Fans (my nephew loves the scarecrow!) this would be a cute birthday cake too!

Scarecrow & Spider Cupcakes – I thought these cupcakes were very funny looking & they’re pretty easy to decorate too.


Mini Pumpkin Spice Cakes – I’d say these are a little more “adult” but it’s very pretty and festive looking! Could be great to serve at a party or family gathering or to take to work.

Chocolate Chip Werewolf Cookies – I think it’s safe to say that all the kids will love these. These very elaborately decorated werewolf cookies are actually very easy to make and decorate with assorted candies.

Related Posts: Great Snacks for Halloween, Sweet Treats for Day of the Dead, Simply Sweet Recipe – Spider Cupcakes, Candy Apples: Photos & Links

Filed Under: cupcakes, desserts, fall, Halloween

Recipe of the Week: Sweet Jack-o’-laterns

October 16, 2008 1 Comment

I got this really cute treat in my email last week, and I thought it would be a great recipe to feature as the recipe of the week. The idea comes from Taste of home and they call them Sweet Jack-o’-lanterns. These would be such a great treat to take to a school Halloween party or serve at home.

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know that I love sweet treats, especially if they are easy to make and decorate (since I’m not much of an artist), and this definitely fits that mold. It’s something you can make even if you’re short on time, and it’s easy enough that you could even get the kids in on the action. And you can make something that’s very fun and professional looking without spending a lot of money and without having to be a culinary artist. Excellent!

Ingredients:
1 package (18-1/4 ounces) yellow cake mix or cake mix of your choice
3-3/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons butter, softened
2/3 to 3/4 cup milk
1 to 1-1/2 teaspoons orange paste food coloring
12 gumdrops
12 black jujubes
Directions: Prepare and bake cake according to package directions for cupcakes. Fill 24 greased muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. For frosting, in a small bowl, combine confectioners’ sugar, butter and enough milk to achieve spreading consistency. Stir in food coloring. Cut a thin slice off the top of each cupcake. Spread frosting on 12 cupcakes. Invert remaining cupcakes and place on top; frost top and sides. For stems, place one gumdrop on each pumpkin. Cut jujubes into thin slices; use a bottom slice for each mouth. From remaining slices, cut one large triangle and two smaller ones. Position two small triangles and a large triangle on each cupcake for eyes and nose. Yield: 1 dozen.


Filed Under: cupcakes, fall, Halloween, Recipe of the Week

Recipe of the Week: Graduation Cup-caps

May 15, 2008 1 Comment

Going along with the graduation theme, here’s a very cute cupcake recipe. These would be so great for kindergarden and pre-school graduates, but the big kids and adults should like them too.

Graduation Cup-caps
1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow or white cake mix
1 env. KOOL-AID Orange Flavor Unsweetened Soft Drink Mix
2/3 cup (1/2 of 7-oz. tub) BAKER’S Real Dark Semi-Sweet Dipping Chocolate, melted
12 HONEY MAID Honey Grahams, broken crosswise in half (12 squares)
2 cups thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping
2 chewy fruit snack rolls, any color
24 jelly beans
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 center 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 center 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”.
SEE tip below to make tassels. Place each tassel on top of cap with jelly bean in center, using a small amount of whipped topping as glue.

Filed Under: cupcakes, desserts, Recipe of the Week

Recipe of the Week: Chocolate Banana Split Cupcakes

April 18, 2008 5 Comments

Here’s another yummy cupcake recipe, courtesy of Taste of Home. And that’s all I’ve got to say about that!

Ingredients:
1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup mashed banana (about 1 medium)
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 milk chocolate bars (1.55 ounces each) broken into squares, divided

FROSTING:
1-1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 tablespoon butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 to 2 tablespoons milk
12 maraschino cherries with stems

Directions:
In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the banana, butter, buttermilk, egg and vanilla. Add to the dry ingredients; stir just until combined. Fold in the nuts. Spoon 1 tablespoon of batter into each paper-lined muffin cup. Top each with one candy bar square. Fill the remainder of the cup two-thirds full with batter.

Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cupcake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.

In a bowl, combine the confectioners’ sugar, butter, vanilla and enough milk to achieve spreading consistency. Frost cupcakes. In a microwave, melt the remaining candy bar squares; drizzle over frosting. Top each with a cherry. Yield: 1 dozen.

Filed Under: cupcakes, Recipe of the Week
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