A Surprise Inside! 

Hello!!
So i made these cupcakes, right?
So I wanted to make cupcakes, cause I haven't made cupcakes in FOREVER!
So my mom was looking through her cooking binders. She found a slip with a GREAT idea!
It said to add a piece of chocolate candy and add it in to any cupcake recipe.

As you see I added snickers and crunch.  

I made a simple chocolate butter cream frosting recipe from Bakerella's original book. 

I forgot how many cupcake's the recipe made, but I think it was around 27-30 cupcakes. 

The icing recipe covered most of the cupcakes. 

Martha Stewart's Chocolate Cake

• 1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 1/2 cups hot water

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the muffin tins with cupcake papers or spray with cooking spray.
2. Sift cocoa, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar into bowl. Beat in oil, buttermilk, vanilla, eggs, and hot water one at a time, using a mixer set at low. Beat until smooth, about 2 minutes.
3. Pour batter into pans. Bake 45 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean; an adult should rotate the pans halfway through and remove cupcakes from the oven.
4. Let cakes cool in pans on wire racks, 20 minutes, before frosting the cupcakes. 

Bakerella's Chocolate Butter Cream

3/4 cup butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

3 cups powdered sugar 

1/3 cup cocoa powder

1 to 2 teaspoons milk, if needed

1. Cream the butter and vanilla with a mixer

2. Add the powdered sugar to your butter mixture, add the sugar in batches

3. Then add your cocoa powder, add milk to make creamier.

Christmas!

Hello, I hope you had a great holiday! 

Since I have not posted any thing in the past 2 or so weeks I am making a video. I got a HD Samsung Video Camera and I LOVE  it. I am going to make a video on my personal favorite, Chocolate Chip Cookies! YUM! So hopefully the video will be up by Monday. :D

Hope you had a great Christmas, Hanukah, or Kwanzaa.

-Julia

1000 people!!

Hello! Sorry I didn't post this weekend! But I will be posting on Thursday or Friday! I just wanted to say I hit 1000 PEOPLE VISITED ME BLOG!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!  

Hope you have a Merry Christmas!

-Julia :D

I met Bakerella!! 

Hello, yes. I did meet Bakerella this night at 7:00 pm!

See. There in the picture above she is giving us tips on what type of candy melts are better than others, what type of sprinkles she buys, stuff like that! If you have seen her blog lately, she has a bracelet a person made for her. The charms are cake pops she has made before. 

See, there I am. Shaking to death. I was SO scared. But then I wasn't as much. She seemed pretty surprised that a young girl like me...would bake like her! 

She had her original book that people could sign. I was actually happy to sign her book. She also had some buttons for us. She's so nice! 

Ok, so here's the happy part...well kinda. I made Bakerella cry. Or tear up, as my mom says. How, you might ask. Well, my mom told Bakerella's mom that I had a blog. Yes, Bakerella's mom was there. Bakerella was REALLY happy hear that. But then there I go. " Yeah, you actually inspired me. " I said.  Then she says, "Awwww..." and I hug her. (I think she will remember that!) 

:D 

I am SO happy. My dream came true. 

Thank you, Bakerella, my fans, my family, my friends. 

You all inspire me.

So, keep baking!!! :D 

Bakerella 

Brownie Fail

I was going to make cookies and brownies for Thanksgiving.

I wanted to make mini brownies, so they could just have a little brownie. Well, that was a mistake. 

All the brownies sunk, the sticked to the pan, but the only good thing was they were nice and moist and gooey. 

I got the recipe from all recipes.

Not a fan.

I watched the video for the recipe. They use a large pan. 

I might try it again.

The batter was YUMMY!! It was super chocolatey!!

You can use what ever cocoa you have in your house. If you are going to bake you have to have some type of cocoa. Toll House, Hershey's, H-E-B, Trader Joe's, Safeway, Kroger. Were ever you live. 

Thanksgiving Baking 

This Thanksgiving I baked for my WHOLE family. Cousins and all. 

I was thinking all week what I could make...hmmmm...well my cousins are making desserts too....so.

Cake, cookies, cupcakes, brownies, pudding? What? Something small. I needed help from my mom. She said,"What about cookies they could nibble on?" 

YEA!! But, not plain cookies. Lets add CHOCOLATE!! 

There we go. 

I always wondered how to make these. So, I did! 

This might be a long blog post...so be prepared! 

I got this recipe from the back of the 12oz bag of Hershey's Kisses. So, Thanks Hershey's! 

The recipe calls for peanut butter. My family likes peanut butter, so it was good to go.

These were pretty good! 

It calls for 48 chocolate kisses, but i think I only used about...43?

The recipe says roll them in sugar, idid and they came out all sparkly and soft and chewy and...I'm getting hungry!

You can see I used a D.C comics bowl my brother got when he was like, 3 or 4. 

After they out out of the oven EVERYONE wanted one. They still do right now.

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

40-48 Hershey Kisses Milk Chocolate

1/2 cup of shortening

3/4 cup of peanut butter 

1/3 cup white sugar 

1/3 brown sugar 

1 egg

2 tablespoons milk 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

1 1/2 cups of flour

1 teaspoon baking soda 

1/2 teaspoon salt

Additional sugar 

Directions:

Pre-heat oven 375 F and remove wrappers from chocolates.

Beat shortening and peanut butter in a large bowl until well blended. Add sugar and brown sugar; beat until fluffy. Add egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well. 

Set a side wet mixture; stir together flour, baking soda and salt. Beat in wet mixture. Shape dough in to 1-inch. 

Bake 10-12 minutes or in till golden

When you take them out you have to add the Kiss. Yes, the Kiss will melt. So I recommend you eat it while its hot! 

 

BAKERELLA TOYS!!

Some of you know that I am a fan of Bakerella.

I love her! Well some of you also know that Bakerella has new toys. Yes, Emma, NOW!! 

You can find them on Amazon!! 

I might get one! If I do I will so show you what I made!!