Vanilla cupcakes with honey and cinnamon frosting!

Yum! Made these some time ago!
So I hadn't baked proper cupcakes for some time and I decided that it was high time I did this. So they happened, were delicious and killed the ache for cupcakes!
I baked the vanilla cupcakes (click the link and it will take you to the recipe I posted a long time ago! I still use the same one, it's still my favorite!) and topped them with this delicious honey cinnamon frosting!
You need to try out this recipe, for realz, it's absolutely delicious!

  HONEY CINNAMON FROSTING

Ingredients:

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(covers 10-12 cupcakes)

• 1 & 1/4 cup powdered (/confectioners/icing) sugar
• 1/2cup (113g)room temperature butter
• 1tbsp honey (yes, that is enough to give it the honey flavor, I know, CRAZY)
• 1/2tsp cinnamon (but that really depends on how much you love cinnamon, I love it dearly, so I think I've put a bit more)

What to do?

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1. Cream the butter, add sugar (not all at once! Bit by bit!)
2. When about half way through add in the honey and cinnamon. And keep on adding in and mixing the sugar.
3. DECORATE!

And there you have the "finished look"! Me and my best friend went a bit crazy with decorating them hence the rose and fairy dust!
I also dripped a bit of honey on one, just to go with the honey in the cupcake's frosting, as an idea for all of you to decorate!

Hope you enjoyed this "only frosting" recipe & let me know if you make them!

Lots of love,
Annie

BASIC : Vanilla Cupcakes

Hi, there! Like I said, I'm back in my baking shape, so as I've done vanilla cupcakes w/ chocolate frosting I thought I'd share this really basic recipe for pretty much "plain" cupcakes :) My favourite is from joyofbaking.com , ah thanks Stephanie Jaworski! You ALWAYS have those ingredients at home and whenever you feel like baking OR EATING cupcakes it's just great to have that tested recipe. Oh, there's an idea, I could do a series of just those super easy, BASIC, recipes, what you think about that?
Anyways, today vanilla cupcakes are on!  Soo there you go!

  VANILLA CUPCAKES  

Ingredients:

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1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
2/3 cup (130 grams) granulated white sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Zest of 1 large lemon (outer yellow skin)
1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup (60 ml) milk
( of course, you CAN skip lemon zest, but well, it's better with it!)

What to do?

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1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
2) In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy

3) Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract!
4) In a separate bowl whisk together the lemon zest, flour, baking powder, and salt.

5) With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture and milk, in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.

6) Evenly fill the muffin cups with the batter

7) Bake for 17-20 minutes, let it cool for a moment and ENJOY!

haha I've baked those a couple of times, and they are delicious every time, really! And here you've got the pictures from the last time :>
Soo now I see you running to your fridge and puttin everything out on the table. Soo good luck and see you next time! :)
xoxo

Annie

Diet cupcakes part 2?

I've made my diet cupcakes once again! Nothing special, you'd think,but I couldn't resist this time and found a recipe for a LOW-FAT frosting :) Well... I'm not that sure if it's that much different, but in my mind it's saved as a low-fat so I don't have as many regrets after eating the cupcake! Take a look at the pictures

P is for Pixie. She's been my best friend for like 11 years now :) Anyways we were to meet so I thought it would be cool to do maybe just one cupcake especially for her! And those little things on frosting are crushed pieces of biscuits, like it? 'Cause I do like how it looks, i thought it's a nice idea! 

So diet vanilla cupcakes with zucchini + low-fat buttercream vanilla frosting (with baking-margarine instead of butter) + crushed biscuits = NICE DIET CUPCAKE :) If you want any recipe or want more details or anything just let me now. 

I'm waiting for your comments and advices about my blog! 

thanks 

-Anns

P.S. one cupcake is supposed to have like 200 calories? That's.. i think that's less than a normal cupcake which is like 400? 300? not really sure, I'm sorry. But if you want me I can check that out for you!