{ French Toast Cupcakes }

Honestly, I wasn't even planning to blog this.

Do you all know what See You At the Pole is?

Well, it took place this morning, and as one of our church youth leaders, I was there to support the kids.

And by support, being me, it meant "bring cupcakes!". 

However, it took place at 7 a.m. So, I decided to make one of my favorites: Cinnamon Roll cupcakes by Darla, at Bakingdom. When I opened her site though, I remembered her French Toast Cupcakes.

Hmmm... French Toast, eh?

Ok.

Now, like I said, I wasn't planning to blog this, but after the response I got, I had to.

I have to say myself, I took one bite last night and said "Holy crap, that's amazing!". It was good to know I was not alone in this assessment.

The only thing I did differently was in the icing. I didn't have any pure maple syrup, so I added a teaspoon of maple extract. I also added 1/2 cup of brown sugar and cut back a little on the powdered sugar.

Basically though, what I want you to realize is that these cupcakes are amazering!!!!

My friend, Darla? Genius.

You should go make them. Now.

photo property of Bakingdom

French Toast Cupcakes with Maple Buttercream

You'll thank me, but really, you should thank Darla, since they are, ya  know, kinda her recipe!

Tina

{ Nightmare Before Christmas Cupcakes }

I'm going to tell you something that may shock you.

I've never seen The Nightmare Before Christmas.

As a general rule, I think Tim Burton is kinda creepy.

While I love all things magic, wizardy, and fantasy, I'm really not into the macabre.

My nieces, on the other hand, are quite my opposite when it comes to this. Both of my nieces had "Spooky Sixteens" instead of sweet ones. See my post here about my youngest niece's party. 

It's actually been nearly a year since that post I just linked. My niece has just had another birthday. (Her party was later last year due to the Halloween theme). Her party is tonight.

A couple days ago, her older sister posted this link from Disney's website on my Facebook begging me to make Oogie Boogie cupcakes. The birthday girl agreed, and so... Oogie Boogie Birthday Cupcakes it was!

I baked up a batch of chocolate cupcakes (I did 1/2 large cupcakes & 1/2 mini's, the mini's were for Oogie) using this recipe (yum yum!!) by Bakingdom. Since I had some heavy cream sitting in my fridge, I decided to use her Buttercream recipe too. It's the first time I've used a buttercream other than my own, and holy wow. I think I've just found "MY" new recipe!

Then I tinted it green, Oogie Boogie style.

The Disney recipe says to use a marshmallow on top for the base of Oogie's head. I just used icing. All buttercream... all the time!

Using Wilton tip #608 (yes, it's huge), I piped on a daub of icing.

Then, using tip #12, I piped a smaller one with the curved tip.

Then, I smoothed it with the back of a spoon. Using tip #1, I added slashes for his eyes and mouth.

If you use a standard sized cupcake you could easily get more details onto his face.

Then, I decided to not use the large tip, and just pipe with #12. That works fine too. You can smooth ... or not. I didn't here. I kinda like them better, but I'm not sure how Oogie Boogie they look.

Angry Oogies!

Soooo.... I couldn't make Oogie Boogie without making Jack.

Jack was pretty easy, just white buttercream with his face piped on with tip #1.

I picked the white, frilly wrappers because they reminded me of his tux.

*note: to keep the wrappers nice, I didn't bake in them, I placed the baked, frosted- but not decorated cupcakes in the wrappers.

I'm sure he'd look mass better with fondant, but as I said earlier... all buttercream....all the time.

So, there you have it. Easy, peasy.  You definitely don't have to be good at decorating to make these.

I'll thank Tim Burton for not making complicated looking characters at least.

And someday... perhaps soon even, I will watch this movie. It. will. happen.

Someday.

**Edit: I just found out tonight, after taking the cupcakes to the party, what Oogie Boogie actually is.

I have yet to recover.

Tina

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