October & November Cupcakes!

Leave it to me to wait to the very last day of November to bake the two cupcakes I promised you. #lifeofaprocrastinator

Okay, so what should have been October's Cupcake:
 Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

For starters, I just want to say I absolutely LOVE when the cakes come out like these did. They just look so perfect. The recipe was pretty easy and didn't take me very long to mix it all together. They smelled very delicious and taste scrumptious! Not dry at all, the frosting and the cake together are a great combo.

Speaking of the frosting...I had some complications with. Really, every time I make cream cheese frosting it never comes out the way I want it. And my piping of the frosting never, and I mean NEVER comes out the way the picture looks from the amazing bloggers I get the recipes from.   The picture I managed to get actually came out amazing ha ha. About 3 minutes after I took this photo the frosting started to droop. Actually, every cupcake I frosted slowly started to turn into melted ice cream. figuratively speaking. Very disappointing. I'm convinced I can't make the perfecting cream cheese frosting because I don't have a Kitchenaid tilt-head stand mixer with the paddle attachment.

Besides that fact, these cupcakes came out delicious.

November's Cupcake:

Apple Cider Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream

Because I was happier with the way these came out, I have more pictures to show you :)

These took a little more work than the Pumpkin ones. This cake is a good consistency. Not super moist but not dry at all. They weirdly have this apple smell to them, when the only thing apple was the apple cider.

Taste wise, I wish there was more of an apple taste to it. You can totally taste the spice in it too. My frosting came out okay. It definitely has a salted caramel taste! This was my first time making a caramel sauce and it came out pretty awesome. ha ha! Obviously, I enjoyed piping these bad boys way more than the pumpkin. They are much prettier to look at. The one thing I did forget to do, with the frosting the recipe called to sift the powdered sugar and I forgot to do that. *sigh* even though my sifter was literally right next to the bowl. So I don't know if that would have made any difference really in the making of the frosting. Next time I'll have to make sure I don't forget to do that.

Yes, there will be a next time. I am determined to have prettier looking Pumping Cupcakes and I want to try and bring out the flavors a little more with the Apple Cider Cupcakes. Also! The recipe for the ACC gave some options on what to do with the left over caramel, one was to poke holes in the cake and allow the caramel to soak in! um, delicious!

If you would like to attempt to bake these please, click on the titles of the cupcakes and it will direct you to the awesome bloggers pages that I went to to get these recipes from!

I know what you're thinking now, "Well, tomorrow is December Liz, I hope you have an idea of what you will be baking us." And as a matter of fact, I do! I know exactly what I will be attempting. Please, stay tuned. And thanks for reading. : )

♥L