Friday Night Cupcakes

June 26, 2009 | Filed Under At the In-laws, Photos, Recipe 

Made dessert for my mother-in-law’s church meeting tonight. My simple (dairy and egg-free) chocolate oil cake was the cupcake base.

Ground some sugar (in the gorgeous evening sun) for a light and fluffy (the secret is adding a 1/4 cup of whipping cream to the butter/sugar mixture) vanilla buttercream frosting.

Grinding sugar

Topped the frosted cupcakes with strawberries… added a couple mint leaves on the side. Because everyone knows fancy cupcakes taste better.

Strawberries and Mint

Quintessential summer time fare.

Comments

10 Responses to “Friday Night Cupcakes”

  1. Val on June 26th, 2009 9:24 pm

    YUM!!! Very detrimental to my diet…

    That’s okay, keep um coming…

  2. Muthering Heights on June 26th, 2009 10:52 pm

    Soooo, not to sound like a moron, but is that a machine specifically made for grinding sugar?

  3. Sadie on June 27th, 2009 1:54 am

    oh but Val, didn’t you hear? the chocolate oil cake is dairy and egg free. so it has to be not AS bad for our diets, right?

    it’s really a moot point i’m making anyway, because bad for the hips or not, i’m in!

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  4. Stephanie on June 27th, 2009 3:12 am

    Ooo…I am so excited to try this recipe, having recently found out we can’t do eggs or dairy! :)

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  5. Molly @ Star Cottage on June 27th, 2009 6:43 am

    Food Glorious Food!

    You did a lovely job my dear!

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  6. JessicaC on June 27th, 2009 7:10 am

    Gorgeous!

  7. Rosey on June 27th, 2009 10:48 am

    Is that a vitamix?? We have one of those!

  8. loqi on June 30th, 2009 9:17 am

    You have the best food presentation skills! I can’t believe how cute those cupcakes look! I’m a huge fan of strawberries, so I think I’ll have to steal that idea sometime. :)

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  9. Aleah on June 30th, 2009 5:15 pm

    Yummm those looks so good & pretty too!

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  10. Kiki on July 18th, 2009 9:25 pm

    That sugar grinding picture is a.m.a.z.i.n.g.

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