Hello Cupcake!

Cupcakes are so now. And why not? What is better than a personal sized cake complete with frosting? You don't even need a fork to eat this yummy little dessert! Knowing of my obsession with cupcakes (and all things sweet) my mom-in-law, Cheryl, picked out a new cookbook for me as a birthday gift: Cupcakes! From the Cake Doctor.

If you've never heard of the Cake Doctor series, you are seriously missing out! The books take a simple cake mix and turn it into something extraordinary! There are several versions, but I'd never even heard of Cupcakes!. After dad-in-law, Tom, brought over my gifts last week I sat and read through every single recipe in the book. Every. Single. One.

After much deliberation (and drooling!), I finally decided on Cinnamon Toast Cupcakes. I was making them for Saturday's game, which was at 11:30. That means breakfast tailgating! I figured "Toast" works for breakfast. They're like breakfast cupcakes, right? Plus, you know about my cinnamon obsession.

The recipe started out with a regular box of yellow cake mix:

In addition to adding the standard three eggs and vegetable oil, you add pudding, whole milk, and a whole bunch of cinnamon. Bake 'em up!

The very best part comes after the cuppie cakes cool; Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting. The frosting recipe made way more than you could put on 24 little cupcakes. The extra was tupperwared in the fridge and has slowly been eaten on everything from toast (I had to try it!) to graham crackers. So good.

Here's a frosted little guy, about to be eaten:

Mmmm... cupcakes make tailgating even better! Right Bryan?

These were good. Like, I'm not even kidding. They were really good. My only complaint is that the cupcakes were too easy to eat!

I have a list going and tons of pages marked in this book with recipes I will be trying: Black Bottom Cupcakes, Inside Out Peanut Butter Cupcakes, Little Pumpkin Cinnamon Cakes, Jelly Doughnut Cupcakes, Coconut Snowballs... the list goes on.

Besides just recipes, the book is also full of tips and lists like "10 steps to Sensational Cupcakes", what to keep in your pantry, how to decorate cupcakes effortlessly, and lots of other tasty tidbits to make you a master at cupcakes. This is definitely going to be one of my most used (and most loved) cookbooks!