Heather’s birfday cupcakes
Last Tuesday was my dear friend Heather’s birthday. She is another teacher at my school and we’ve been close since I did my student teaching 2 and a half years ago. She is always very appreciative of my baked goods so I wanted to make sure I made her one of her favorites. Last year she requested Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting, last week I made Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting. They were “da bomb.” (yes, I just went there… but really, they’re SO GOOD… now in my “cupcakes that I make well” rotation.
Again, my pictures are all yellow tinted because I’ve been baking only at night and I haven’t figured out everything on my fancy new camera.
I felt like the turquoise with polka dots cupcake liners were very fitting for Heather, I also didn’t have much else to choose from. I have a bunch of fall sprinkles but felt like it just didn’t work with the liners.
I put mini chocolate chips in the peanut butter cream cheese frosting (recipe, here)
I have come to really like using a pasty bag without a tip to do the frosting. I’m going to make it my “signature” way of decorating cupcakes, I think. Also, I was originally using a big star tip, but the mini chocolate chips kept getting stuck so I opted to use just the bag.
