We’re continuing on with Baby Shower Week here at The Pink Flour. Today, I have for you the {easy} recipe for the cupcakes I made for my best friend’s baby shower.
Once we decided on the children’s book theme, I knew I wanted to use the book Pinkalicious and make pink cupcakes (just like in the book!) Knowing there was other food I was making for the shower, I wanted to keep it simple. Therefore, I opted to doctor up a white cake mix instead of making from scratch.
For the frosting, I added strawberry jam to a basic buttercream recipe. You could make strawberry puree and strain the seeds from it, but since I was looking to make things easy and more time efficient I used the strawberry jam.
You’ve probably noticed there are some cupcakes that don’t have liners on them. As the cupcakes cooled, the liners pulled away from the cake, so I just took them off completely. I think it had to do with the type of liners I used, but if anyone knows of another reason this could happen, I would love to hear it!
Click on the recipe to download.
Thanks to {complete 3 photography} (again) for the beautiful pictures of the cupcakes. Don’t forget to visit their website and facebook page, if you haven’t yet.
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This project may be linked to the following:
(Monday) Skip to my Lou, Craft-O-Maniac, (Tuesday) Sugar Bee Crafts, Inside BruCrew Life,(Wednesday) The 36th Avenue, White Lights on Wednesday, Somewhat Simple, Lil Luna, Back for Seconds. Whimsy Wednesday (Thursday) Chocolate, Chocolate & more Chocolate, House of Hepworths, The Shabby Creek Cottage, The Frugal Girls, Sweet Bella Roos, Michelle’s Tasty Creations, Just my Crazy Kitchen, (Friday) Keep Calm & Link Up, Live, Laugh, Rowe, Tatertots & Jello,Whipperberry, Serenity Now, Thirty Handmade Days,Weekend Wonders, Real House Moms, (Weekend) Positively Splendid, Tidy Mom, I Heart Nap Time, and Six Sister’s Stuff.
Megan, these cupcakes are so precious and perfect! I love the flavor almond extract gives cakes.. makes them so bright and flavorful! And the strawberry buttercream.. I kinda just want to bury my face in it.
ReplyDeleteMegan, these cupcakes are gorgeous! I love the fluffy strawberry frosting. I have been meaning to make strawberry buttercream at home sometime soon. I wish I had one of these cupcakes right now to get me through the morning at work. :)
ReplyDeleteSally, I'm over the moon that you visited my blog! And yes, I wish I had one of these cupcakes for breakfast right now too!
DeleteThese look delicious! Love strawberry! Happy Thursday!
ReplyDeleteMegan, These cupcakes look amazing! The frosting alone sucked us in! YUMMY! -The Six Sisters
ReplyDeleteThose cupcakes look delicious! My fingers are crossed for the kindle fire!!! I would absolutely love to win one!!!
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I can't wrap my head around how CUTE these are! They look fabulous.
ReplyDeleteThese look so yummy! Dropping by from Serenity Now.
ReplyDeleteOh yum, those look absolutely amazing! Stopping by from Tatertots & Jello!
ReplyDeleteYummy!!! I really love to find new recipes. I invite you to link to my party every Tuesday and it's still open :)
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Megan I love pretty food! These look delish . Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xo P.S. I'm sorry I missed out on this giveaway. Look at all of those entries! I would love to have that kind of participation in my giveaways!
ReplyDeleteI love anything with almond extract and especially when paired with strawberry!
ReplyDeleteYum! Looks tasty, pinned!
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