Swirl Shaped Cupcakes

So today I decided to finally use the pans my aunt gave me. One is a pan with 6 stars and the other is a mini bundt pan. I also decided to add color to the cake because it was just vanilla and I like color.

Ingredients

Cake mix

3 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 ¼ cup water

Food coloring

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and spray pans

Mix eggs, oil, water and cake mix together until most of the lumps are gone and the dry ingredients are mixed in. If you want the cake to be white instead of yellow before dyeing use egg whites instead of the whole egg.

Separate batter into two bowls and dye each bowl of batter a different color. I used blue and purple, but my purple looks pink.

Pour one of the bowls of batter into the dish leaving enough room for the other color of batter.

 

Take a toothpick and swirl the toothpick through the batter in a swirling motion like the brownie swirl cake from two post ago.

Remember to add water to any empty parts of the pan so the pan does not burn.

Bake the cakes for 20 minutes.  Then take out and let cool.

I over stuffed the pan and my cakes ended up being a mess and when I took them out of the pan some of them fell apart. I also had to cut the tops off so that the stars and bundts would lay flat.  

 

For the cakes that fell apart I made them into cake balls.

I decorated the cake with icing and added sprinkles for decorations.

Once they are iced and decorated enjoy.

Spring Filled Cupcakes

So my mom got me this cup cake corer and I have been really excited to use it. I decided to fill the cupcakes with pudding because I did not want too much icing. I also have been excited to try Kraft’s new Cool Whip frosting (even thought I don’t like cool whip frosting).  

Ingredients

Cake

1 cake Mix

3 eggs

1 cup of water

5 1/3 tablespoons of butter

Pudding

Instant pudding mix (I used vanilla)

2 cups of milk

1 tub Cool whip icing (I used chocolate)

Food coloring

Sprinkles (optional)

Set out frozen icing about an hour before you use it or stick it on the stove ( if you forgot to take it out) while the oven is on to defrosted it.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake pan with liners.

Mix eggs, water, and cake mix in a bowl for about two minutes at a medium speed. I did this by hand because I don’t have a mixer at school. For spring I decided to dye the batter pink.

 Fill cupcake pans a third to half way full and bake for about 19 minutes.

While cupcakes are baking mix pudding mix and milk in a bowl for two minutes with a whisk or a fork. Then dye green or yellow if the green doesn’t work and chill for at least five minutes.

 

Once cupcakes are done baking let them cool completely and use a cupcake corer to take the middle out.  I used the larger corer and pressed about half way down. Sometimes all the cake didn’t come out so I had to just pull it out. Next time I will use the smaller one because I like less filling but you might like more.

 

Take pudding out of the fridge and scoop into a baggy then cut of a corning like you would if you were making icing. Squirt the pudding into the cupcakes.

 

Then scoop icing into a baggy and cut the corner off and ice the cupcake. Make sure you cover the filling completely.

Sprinkle and enjoy but you need to keep the cupcakes in the fridge because of the pudding and icing. 

I made cake balls with the cupcake middles and leftover icing.