Sunday Cupcakes

I’m back to baking more cupcakes.  I made some carrot cake cupcakes a couple weeks ago when my parents were in town.  They were probably one of my new favorites.  It’s fun to come up with new ideas and play around with different combinations and flavors. 
Tonight I made Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes.  I came up with the idea one day while driving home from work.  With each cupcake idea I think of I have to do a little Google images research.  I prefer to search images, I guess because I’m mainly a visual learner. But anyways, apparently I’m not the only one with the Orange Creamsicle idea, there were tons out there on the internet, cupcakes, cakes etc… all a little bit different.  I use the different ideas to help complete how I want to make my cupcakes taste and look.  This idea took a lot of different steps.  I had to flavor and color the vanilla frosting to taste and look orange, cut up the little candies for decoration, and make the creamy filling for the center of the cupcakes.  This batch made about 36 cupcakes. I could have filled the cups a little higher for a more puffy top, which might have held more filling, but then I’d have less cupcakes to share.  I tasted one and it was very orangey, not sure about the cream part.  I think I taste tested one too many of the orange gummy candies.  Even now I can still taste the orange candy flavor on my tongue and I just brushed my teeth. Orange you wanting one right about now???