Bubble Gum Cupcakes!

I found these here...cookiesandcups.com/blow-pop-cupcakes. (If this link doesn't work, you can access Cookie and Cups by clicking the link on the right side of my screen).  I made them for the Bingo/Bake Sale night at our school!  The icing tastes just like Bubble Gum!  Like the blogger at Cookies and Cups, I made my own Buttercream frosting!!  Here is the recipe I used:

Bubble Gum Buttercream
1/2 C. Crisco Vegetable Shortening
1/2 C. Butter, softened
3-4 C. Confectioners Sugar
1 Tbsp. Vanilla
3 Tbsp. Milk
1 Packet of Duncan Hines Bubble Gum Mix In Flavoring (for icing)
Combine Crisco and Butter until combined.  Add sugar - starting on low speed until combined and then to medium speed.  Add vanilla and milk and mix on high speed for several minutes, until light and fluffy.  Add flavor packet and mix on high speed for another minute or so; until well incorporated.

HAPPY EATING!

Peanut Butter Snicker Brownies.....

Yes, I did it....I made these....why, I ask myself, do I like to torture myself with these sinfully rich, decadent treats! I did have a taste and OH MY! These need to be packaged up and immediately sent with Jimmy to work tomorrow or I will nibble on them and then before I know it I will have nibbled them all up....and well, that would not be good for me!

I so wish that I could own a little shop to peddle all my little tasty things. It would be a dream of mine! You know the kind of shop....part antique, part food, 100% comfy~some place that people like to come and hang out....a place that you know everyone by name, just a little neighborhood shop.....maybe someday.
This recipe was adapted from the "Cookies and Cups" blog:
This is what you will need:

Yes, you make them in regular size muffin tins because somehow the "fun size" does not fit in the mini-muffin tins~

Cooling.....

After icing them....you need a 1/2 gallon of milk to go with them...

Peanut Butter Snickers Brownies

1 Family Size Package Brownie Mix + ingred. to make them

1 Bag "fun size" Peanut Butter Snickers

DIRECTIONS: Prepare brownie mix and place in muffin tins (makes approx. 10). Unwrap snickers and place in brownie mix. Cover up snickers with brownie batter. Bake for 17 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack, in pan, for 30 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely. If you icing the brownies, recipe is as follows:

PB Icing

1/2 C. Peanut Butter

1/2 Stick (4 Tbsp.) Butter

2 1/2 C. Confections Sugar

3 Tbsp. Milk

DIRECTIONS: Combine all ingred. with electric mixer and blend until smooth.

Chocolate Icing

4 Tbsp. Butter

2 1/2 C. Confectioners Sugar

1/4 C. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1 tsp. Vanilla

1/4 C. Milk

DIRECTIONS: Combine all ingred. with electric mixer until smooth.

Place PB icing in 1/2 of a pastry bag and Chocolate Icing in 1/2 of the pastry bag....pipe onto brownies!

Happy Eating!