Back to School Cookies

My daughter Bianca celebrated her first day of Kindergarten on Wensday(sniff sniff). Every year on their first day of school I like to send my children with goodies to share with their class.

I think it helps ease the pain of the first day because they feel like they have something special to share with their new classmates and I hope that the children in the class would enjoy getting a special surprise treat on the first day, I know I would. So for the big day I made smiley face cookie pops. I thought cookie pops would be better for the class rather than cupcakes.

I figure if the teacher didn't want the childeren to eat them for their snack they could always take them home.

Te Quiero Mucho, Cupcake

This is another one of my cupcakes created last week during my baking frenzy, I didn't have a chance to post it until now. I had dulce de leche leftover from my Nuevo Banana Splits and Latin Elvis cupcakes and thought to myself what else would be great with dulce de leche ? What else? Chocolate! This is a rich and moist chocolate cake filled with creamy dulce de leche filling, I made my favorite chocolate ganache recipe but this time I mixed in Dulseda which is a creamy dulce de leche liquer that gave the ganache a rich caramel bite.

Next, I dipped the tops of my cupcakes in the ganache and let them cool. Once cooled I warmed the dulce de leche so that I could drizzle a little on top of the cupcakes.

At first bite of these cupcakes I was in love!! The chocolate cake was so rich and moist and the dulce de leche within the cupcake was so creamy and gave just the right sweetness to the cupcake. The dulce de leche chocolate ganache gave this cupcake a smooth and perfect chocolate and caramel twist.

My oldest daughter and I were sitting at the table and in between bites I was telling I her I think that this is my new favorite cupcake! I then asked her what should we call it ? And she replied, we should call it "Te Quiero Mucho, Cupcake" which in Spanish translates to I want you so much, Cupcake! I told her once again that she was brillant and that was a perfect name,and so here it is the "Te Quiero Mucho, Cupcake"!

Baking Up A Fuego!

I don't know what came over me this weekend, but I was baking like crazy! I started off by wanting to make just plain chocolate cupcakes(a special request by my little one) but then all these new cupcake flavor ideas started popping into my head and I thought to myself, who am I to deny them their exsistence. So the baking began!

This cupcake was inspired by the Choco Taco dessert bar

Choco Taco

This is a chocolate cupcake dipped in a chocolate ganache that has been infused with salted peanuts, then I crushed sugar cones and sprinkled them on top of the ganache to mimic the taco shell, a swirl of vanilla buttercream then a fudge drizzle . My oldest loved it, and said it tasted just like the ice cream bar, without the brain freeze....brrrr!

Latin Elvis

This cupcake is inspired by "The King's" favorite sandiwich but with a Latin twist. A rich banana cake filled with a creamy dulce de leche filling, topped with a smooth peanut butter butter cream, topped with a dulce de leche swirl, a fresh banana chip and a sprinkle of salted peanuts.

This cupcake was pure delicioso! It covered so many yummy bases, sweet, salty, creamy, crunchy!mmmm.....

As the ideas came, I kept my pretty pink Kitcheaid spinning and my cupcake pans full.

I wanted to make a banana split cupcake but I wanted to add a different touch, so I came up with a Nuevo Banana Split

this is a banana cake topped with strawberry buttercream that is infused with real chunks of strawberries, over the buttercream is a sprinkle of sweet coconut and walnuts, then the cupcake is drizzled with warm dulce de leche and a rich chocolate drizzle and a plump maraschino cherry.

Guavapeno Love

vanilla cake filled with a jalapeno- guava mousse filling than topped with a jalapeno-guava infused buttercream. Two flavors that you may have thought wouldn't find love but Did!! The guava gives a sweet richness while the chopped jalapenos give a spicy kick at the end which can't be denied.

These two flavors together were surprisingly soooo delicious I could hardly keep my fingers out of the bowl!! Yum!

You Got Chiles In My Cookie Dough!

mexican chocolate cupcake filled with ancho chile infused chocolate chip cookie dough, dipped in dark chocolate ganache with another ancho chile infused chocolate chip cookie topped with a spicy and sweet mexican chocolate buttercream a sprinkle of ancho chile powder and a chocolate dipped red jalapeno chile pepper!! mmm... Spicy, Chocolatey, Yummy!

Iron Cupcake Earth

These are my two entries for the Iron Cupcake Earth Challenge, I have to admit that this blog was initially set up because I came upon Mke Cupcake Queen's blog and saw the cool Iron Cupcake challenges, I thought to myself I would love to be a part of that challenge because it gives you a chance to be creative with ingredients that you may have never thought to use before in a cupcake, like Chili Peppers!! Once I set up the blog and committed myself to this challenge my cupcake juices began to flow and so many ideas started to come to mind. But before I went too far I decided to stop at just two, and here are the one's I came up with. I hope you enjoy!

Don't forget to vote for this challenge starting Aug 31