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Cupcake One

Jenne — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:40:02 +0000

Cupcakes For Hot Chelle Rae

Jenne — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:04:08 +0000

After many compliments on the cupcakes we took to the show we thought it would be great to post the recipe for you all to try them at home. These are super simple and come out very soft. The trick is the heavy whipping cream in the recipe that helps keep the cake moist. So without further ado, here is the gourmet chocolate cupcake with black and white swirled icing.

Chocolate Cupcakes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 24

Ingredients

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup hot water
1 cup heavy cream
3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line your cupcake pan with paper or foil liners and set aside.
Sift together flour, cocoa, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add eggs, water, heavy cream, oil and vanilla. Mix in stand mixer or with handheld mixer until smooth. Fill each cup with batter half full. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool before frosting.

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Black & White Swirled Buttercream

Ingredients

2 cups unsalted butter; at room temperature
4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder (Nestle)
2 tablespoon vanilla extract
Black gel food coloring
Red Pearls
White Pearls

Instructions

Using the paddle attachment of your stand mixer, whip the butter on medium-high speed for 2 minutes till butter is soft and fluffy. Reduce the speed to low and gradually add the powdered sugar. Once all of the powdered sugar is incorporated, increase the speed to medium-high and add the vanilla; mix well. Whip at medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes, scraping the bowl as needed.
Put half of the white icing into a bowl. To the remaining icing add cocoa powder and mix well on medium till well incorporated. Add food coloring and mix well until you achieve the color desired.
To swirl the icing, simply put white icing on one side of the icing bag and black icing on the other. I used a 1M tip from Wilton. Ice with bag straight up and down, working your way from the outer edge to the inside. Add pearls for decoration using clean tweezers.

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Comment if you have questions! Enjoy!

Hot Chelle Rae and Cupcakes!

Chelsea — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:33:32 +0000

What started as a birthday adventure for Jenne’s daughter and my niece, Menya, turned into and unbelievably awesome and energy packed night! As soon as we walked into the venue there were hoards of teenagers eagerly awaiting Hot Chelle Rae’s stage entrance and when they finally did, you could definitely tell! This whole new energy took over the room and people started jumping and dancing to ‘Beautiful Freaks’ including me and Jenne. Trying to keep up with a room full of teenagers is harder than it looks, by the way.

Their set was flawless, as well as Ryan’s voice. Dude has pipes! Everyone’s stage presence just made the show that much better and I was glad to see that interaction with fans is still happening at concerts. A few funny stories were told (I.E. Jamie’s ‘I-don’t-have-to-do-anything-to-my-hair-it-just-falls-that-way’ story that Ryan told.) in which Menya had to find out if it was really true from Jamie, himself. Apparently it is! Color me jealous! >:( <—– That is my jealous face. A Weezer song was played that made us all very happy and a great piece of work called ‘”Emo” was bestowed upon us! We could all tell that the Dad chaperone standing in front of us had no idea what or who an “Emo” was. They even played a certain Katy Perry ” Teenage Dream” cover that immediately made Jenne, Menya, and I freak out and sing at the top of our lungs.

As the show was winding down, we decided to head out and get the goodies we had baked for them earlier in the day. Homemade chocolate cupcakes with black and white buttercream icing garnished with red and white candy pearls. We also designed a few salt tags with the boys’ names and some little Hermanni Leap Muusat, the logo, ones too! A run across four streets, three parking lots and back, in heels, with six boxes of cupcakes teetering in my hands ready to be dispersed to the boys Hot Chelle Rae. We saved a couple of extra boxes for their techs also!

The Hot Chelle Rae boys came out one by one to meet and greet their fans. Meanwhile, the tower of cupcake boxes slowly dwindled. I never tire of the look on a man’s face when he see cupcakes! All of the boys were extremely sweet, delightfully talkative, and smelled ridiculously good considering they had just played a full concert. I can honestly say that Jenne, Menya and I were very happy to have met them. I hope we can see them more in the future and bring them more delicious treats and a delectable dinner.

~ Chelsea