Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Lil' Black and White









Hello everyone. I love to bake and I've always wanted to be in one of the contests on TV like cupcake wars or something like that. Chances are that I won't ever get to so, I am entering into an online contest. Its the Ice Cream Cupcake Contest put on by The Cupcake Project and Scoopalicous. The following recipe is my entry. I'm calling them, Lil' Black and Whites. They are amazingly simple, but soooo good.











For the Cupcakes themselves:


1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature.


2/3 cup granulated white sugar.


3 large eggs


1 tsp pure vanilla extract


1 1/2 cups all purpose flour


1 1/2 tsp baking powder


1/4 tsp salt


1/4 cup milk


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C).


In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract.


In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.


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.


Using a mini muffin pan sprayed with a non-stick cooking spray, evenly fill the muffin cups with the batter. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let mini cupcakes cool before continuing to the next step.












For the chocolate ganache:


Combine 1/2 cup of whole milk, 1 tablespoon of butter (or 1/4 cup heavy cream) and a half bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips in a melting pot. Once melted, remove from heat. (For best results, let ganache slightly cool before applying to cupcakes.)


Putting the cupcake together:


After your cupcakes have cooled, take a small spoon or some kind of small utensil and scoop out a bowl into the top of your cupcakes.








Now that you have scooped out a bowl, fill the bowl with vanilla bean ice cream and smooth off the top.







The next step is to put the chocolate ganache on top of the cupcake. I've found that it works best if you put your cupcakes in the freezer for a little bit to make sure your ice cream is hard.




Now, the cupcakes need to go back to the freezer to let the ganache harden and the ice cream stay frozen. Keep them in the freezer till about ten minutes before you are ready to serve. After about ten minutes out, the cake will soften and you'll have yourself "Lil' Black and Whites." Enjoy with caution!


























































Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tatum update...

Tatum rolled all the way over for the first time today! And everyone missed it. I hope she does it for me tonight. She was at Susan's house when she did it. I can't believe that she is growing up so fast. I love my baby girl :)

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

I need to start blogging.....

I love to read everyone blogs but I don't do anything with mine. I really need to start taking the time to update ours. We have a crazy life that is never boring. We are always on the go or people are always coming over. My mom jokes around about us having a bed and breakfast at our house. It really seems that way sometimes. I need time to just sit at home and do nothing. It rarely happens. Oh well, maybe someday our life will be boring.
I was reading the other day, in a blog, about a lady writing down all of her 5 year old son's questions in a journal. That way they could look back and see all of the crazy things they ask. I want to start doing that for Hunter. He cracks up me everyday. He is so smart and I don't know how he comes up with things. And I swear he can read. For example... Yesterday we were driving our hour commute home from work, there was a truck with a big tank in the back of it. Hunter asked what was in the tank. I said I wasn't sure because I couldn't read the writing on the back of it. He said, "I think it's water, no probably poop." I asked, "Poop are you sure?" He said, "Yes, it's poop." I drove up closer to see what the truck said, it was a septic service! How does he know septic tanks have poop in them and he had to of read that, right? He is just too smart.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Easter



On Easter, we went to my Great Aunt's house. Hunter really enjoyed hunter for easter eggs.