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Hi beauties!

This is the perfect pink cupcake, with a cherry on top, for you or your little princesses.

My lifelong obsession with cherries and pink started at a young age. I always used to beg my Mom to make me a pink cake for my birthday. She always made her signature strawberry cake and it was the most delicious!

But I always wondered what a pink cherry cake would be like.

Now, because of my Mom and Nanny, I love baking. This, we know.

Know what I love even more?
Coming up with fast, easy and adaptable recipes that can help you be efficient while baking delish treats for the ones you love.

In this case, I was spinning around trying to prepare for my BeautyFrosting debut party last Sunday. I knew I wanted to make my signature Princess Cherry Vanilla cupcakes but it was already 1 am! Yikes! I was running out of time. This is when I love that I keep oodles of cake mixes on hand as a staple ingredient.

So, I gave myself a little breathing room by relying on a cake mix. Sugar, there’s noooo shame in that.

How did they turn out?
Well, you tell me:

BeautyFrosting Signature Cupcakes: Perfect Pistachio (on left) and Cherry Vanilla (on right)

BeautyFrosting's Signature Cherry Vanilla Cupcakes

BeautyFrosting’s Signature Cherry Vanilla Cupcakes

Makes 24 cupcakes

Cupcakes:

Preheat oven to 350.

1 1/4 c. Warm Water

1/3 c. Vegetable Oil

4 Egg Whites

1 box White cake mix of choice

1 jar Maraschino Cherries (10 oz.)

Drain cherries saving juice for frosting.

Take drained cherries and chop into little juicy bits using a chopper or food processor.

Mix: water, oil and egg whites (one at a time).

Add in cake mix and mix until smooth.

Add in chopped cherry bits and mix until well-distributed.

Bake at 350 for 17-22 minutes.

Let cool before frosting.

Frosting:

1 c. Unsalted Butter

1 c Butter-Flavored Crisco

8 c. Powdered Confectioners Sugar

5 tbsp. Heavy Whipping Cream

1 Tbsp. Clear Vanilla

Maraschino Cherry Juice to taste (varies but about 3 tbsp.)

1 drop Pink Food Coloring

Mix butter and Crisco until smooth.
Add confectioners sugar, a few cups at a time.

Add in vanilla and cream.

Mix with hand mixer until smooth and creamy-dreamy!

Lastly, add the cherry juice sparingly. If frosting is not pink enough for your party guests, add in pink food coloring.

Frost cupcakes and top with a cherry!

So, my sweet neighbor-friends, Hope and Jay, asked me to be part of their Reveal The Baby’s Sex Shower. Yaya! But, now, I had a verrry big secret to keep.

A secret can either be stressful or fun! In this case, it was DEFINITELY the latter!

Boy or Girl? Baby Shower Cupcakes

The hardest part was figuring out how to keep the blue or pink-hued frosting away from prying neighbors’ eyes!

I always turn to my Easy Sour CreamCup Cupcakes recipe when I have a big batch like this one! 72 cupcakes, y’all!!!

6 dozen Boy or Girl Cupcakes

So, here we go:

BeautyFrosting’s Easy Sour CreamCup Cupcakes

1 stick (1/2 c) Butter, softened

2/3 c. water

3 eggs

1 c. sour cream

1 box White Cake Mix

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

In a mixing bowl, combine water and butter. Add eggs one at a time and mix completely until a bit foamy. Add sour cream and mix well. Add cake mix, one cup at a time. Stir until baby-butt smooth.

Pour into 24 cupcake cups in pans.

Bake for 25-35 minutes.

BF Bite: If you’re unsure if they’re done, gently insert a toothpick or sharp knife into center of center cupcake. If it comes out dry, they’re ready! If it’s still wet, they need to bake some more!

BF’s Sweet CreamCup Frosting

1 c. Butter-flavored Crisco (room temp)

1 c. Unsalted Butter (room temp)

8 cups confectioner’s sugar

1/2 tsp Salt

1 Tbsp Vanilla

1 c. Heavy Whipping Cream (add until desired texture is met)

Cream butter and sugar until well-blended.

Add confectioners sugar cup by cup. Add vanilla and salt.

Add heavy cream as needed, as you go, until fluffy, creamy buttercream is achieved.

Filling

Set aside 1/3 of frosting for filling.

Add 1/2 c. of seedless raspberry jam to frosting. Mix until evenly distributed.It will give the cupcakes a little zing! Add either pink or blue food coloring. In the case of Hope & Jay, it was pink!

Now, for proper filling, you really wanna have a Bismarck tip (Wilton #230).

Wilton Bismarck tip #230

Trust me. It will make life much sweeter for you.

Take the tip (which you have attached to pink/blue raspberry frosting-filled icing bag) and insert the tip into the center of the cupcake. Squeeze. And withdraw the tip.

Do this for all cupcakes.
You’ll have a lovely frosting-filled cupcake like so:

It's a girl!!!

Next, frost with your Sweet CreamCup frosting. And decorate with an even-number of alternating pink and blue question marks.

What to do if the sex is undetermined at this point? YELLOW!!!

xoxo,

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