Miss You Cupcakes

The staff around Hobart library is a-changing. We had a retirement, a promotion, and two new additions. For the retirement I made we will miss you cupcakes. She told me I could make what I wanted. That's always fun for me. To make it easy I made vanilla cupcakes and spruced them up, Oreo and Cherry. I'm excited because I think I finally found my butter cream recipe.

For the Oreo cupcakes I was able to use up some crushed Oreo pie crust I had. The cherry cupcakes didn't turn out quite like I wanted them too but they tasted yummy.


For the cupcakes:

Prepare a box of vanilla cake mix according to the package directions.


Cherry Cupcakes
a Lacey creation

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From the cupcake batter above bake 12 cupcakes according to the package directions.

Buttercream Icing
from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen

This recipe only frosts 12 cupcakes decoratively, 24 normally.

2 sticks butter, softened
2 T milk
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
2 T corn syrup

In a bowl of a stand mixer place the butter, milk, and vanilla. Mix on low speed until it just starts to come together, for about a minute. Scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula. Increase to medium low speed and beat for about another minute. At this point it should almost be combined with a little liquid still at the bottom. Increase mixer speed to medium high and beat for another minute. When you butter looks whipped you are ready to add your powdered sugar. Add the 4 cups of powdered sugar and beat on low until the sugar is barely incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bow, and increase the speed slowly to medium. Beat for a bout a minute. At this point you want to check the consistency. If the frosting is to thick you want to add a tablespoon or two of corn syrup. Beat for 30 seconds. Thick frosting works good for decorating but not frosting. Once the frosting is at the consistency you want to beat it on medium high for a minute to make the frosting nice and fluffy.

To make it cherry I added a 1/4 cup of cherry pie filling. I think I should have added the filling to the butter first. When it added it last it made the butter separate. It tasted good but it wasn't as pretty as I thought it would be.


Oreo Cupcakes
a Lacey creation

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Using the rest of the cupcake batter add 1/4 cup of crushed Oreos. bake 12 cupcakes according to the package directions.

Oreo Frosting

This recipe only frosts 12 cupcakes decoratively, 24 normally.

2 sticks butter, softened
2 T milk
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
2 T corn syrup

In a bowl of a stand mixer place the butter, milk, and vanilla. Mix on low speed until it just starts to come together, for about a minute. Scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula. Increase to medium low speed and beat for about another minute. At this point it should almost be combined with a little liquid still at the bottom. Increase mixer speed to medium high and beat for another minute. When you butter looks whipped you are ready to add your powdered sugar. Add the 4 cups of powdered sugar and beat on low until the sugar is barely incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bow, and increase the speed slowly to medium. Beat for a bout a minute. At this point you want to check the consistency. If the frosting is to thick you want to add a tablespoon or two of corn syrup. Beat for 30 seconds. Thick frosting works good for decorating but not frosting. Once the frosting is at the consistency you want to beat it on medium high for a minute to make the frosting nice and fluffy.

Add 1/2 cup of crushed Oreo's to the frosting. I used a piping bag with a star tip to frost the cupcakes. Even though the Oreo's were crushed finely they were getting stuck in the tip. I may need a bigger star tip. Top off each cupcake with a mini Oreo.