Death by Candy Corn Halloween Carrot Cake Recipe

Hola Amigos! Happy weekend! I'm so glad this week is over, feels like it lasted an Eternity! Speaking of eternities, poor little bones here is a true example that everything in excess can lead to your demise! In his case something as innocent as Candy Corn!
Oh Yes...this is the season when our homes get inundated by the aromas and tastes of Candy Corn. So much of it,  that by the end of October I personally don't want to see one more of these sugary treats which seem to have endless shelf life as well!

Our friend "Bones" here not only ate a whole lot of the sweet treat but loved it so much that decided to take it with him to his final resting place!

Of course, his cause of death was Candy Corn Overdose, to the point that when his flesh decomposed...it turned into Candy Corn Stew.....after all my friends, ...we are what we eat...right?

His coffin reflects his love for the season as well, Spiced Carrot with a hint of Apple Cider...at the end...he realized it's a good thing to have veggies and fruits in your Diet...a little too late I'll say....

Do you love Candy Corn as much as "Bones"? What's your favorite Halloween Candy....in other words, what't that thing you secretly raid out of your kids's trick or treat loot?...me? M&M's...I'm addicted to them and I constantly keep a little bag in my purse, just in case of a Zombie Apocalypse or something like that!

Thank You so much for attending Bones trip to the after life! Please join us again to more Halloween Food Fun and remember that everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love....and lots of Candy Corn.."Bones"!

Besitos,

Lizy

Death by Candy Corn Carrot Cake 

Ingredients:

1 box Carrot Cake

(all the ingredients necessary to make it BUT...replace the amount called for water with Apple Cider)

6 oz Candy Corn 

1 Cup Cream

1 TBSP Butter

1 TBSP Vanilla Pudding or Cornstarch

Directions:

Heat oven at 350 degrees. Follow baking instructions. If you are baking these particular coffins you get 12, you can also bake a regular cake, cut it in little pieces and "bury your little piece" in the Candy Corn Stew.

For the Candy Corn Stew, on medium heat add cream, candy corn and pudding. Stir constantly until candy corn is melted. Add your pudding or cornstarch until thickened. Remove from heat and pour some of the mix on each coffin. Decorate with "bones" if you want! Serve warm, room temperature or cold.

Have a glass of milk handy, believe me you're going to  need it, and enjoy!

Prep Time  10 minutes                          Baking time 20 minutes                    Serves 12 coffins

Sharing a Sugar Rush Dessert at these Fa-BOO-lous Parties:

Dear Creatives, Diana Rambles, 504 Main, Tartertots and Jello, A Little Claireification, Sewlicious Home, Angels Homestead, The Thriftiness Miss, Craft Dictator, Sara Howe, Cheerios and Lattes,Six Sisters Stuff, I Gotta Create, Be Different Act Normal, It's Overflowing, Twigg Studios, WCFS, Your Homebased Mom, Dessert Now, Dinner Later, Pink When, Who Needs a Cape, Nifty Thrifty Things, Flamingo Toes, Spatulas on Parade, Mi Mixing Spoons, I Should Be Mopping the Floors, The Casual Craftlete, Cooking for the Seven Drawrfs, This Gal Cooks, Between Naps on the Porch, PandP Kitchen, The Tumbleweed Contessa, Titi Crafty, Create with Joy, Feeding Big, Suburbs Mama, Rain on a Tin Roof, A Pinch of Joy, Setting for Four, Huckleberry Love, Say Not Sweet Anne, The Gunny Sack, Coastal Charm, Ladybug Blessings, Chef in Training, Home Stories A to Z, Hun...What's for Dinner.
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Toe of Frog Halloween Lemon Cupcake Recipe

Hola Amigos! We are finally getting into some Fall temperatures here! It has been so hot the last couple of days! I mean really hot...we needed a little break! Today I'm sharing with you a very easy recipe, a simple twist on one  I made before. I was in desperate need of something sweet with some ingredients that I already had and that I could together with  very little thought to it. See, I suffer from migraines and some days are worse than others...but back to the cupcakes.

This is a pudding poke cupcake. I used pistachio pudding to take a little bit of the bite of the lemon cake! Besides I thought the combination on green and yellow was just too pretty!
Since I had a few frogs hopping around the kitchen, I used them as the centerpiece decor and theme for my cupcakes. When I was little I heard so many things about frogs, and believe me, non of them had to do with kissing them to transform them into a prince...that happened later, lol

My "abuelita" (gradma) used to say that if I was to touch a frog I would get Warts!!! EEWWW! Yucks...no way...so never touched one..on this cupcake the warts are made out of mint green mints M&M's

She also used to say, if you squeeze a frog (why would I do this...I don't have a clue) the frog skin would secrete some slimey, almost mucus like substance...YUCKS!!!...on my cupcakes I recreated the slime with Wilton"s  green candy melts! you can see it just running all over the top!

But forget about the mucus if you can for a minute, these cold blooded amphibians can magically be born in water...they grow legs...(toes included) and then, they Walk Out of the Pond and live the rest of their lives hiding on the muddy surfaces near the pond in case they needed a quick refreshing bath! My pond is represented by the pistachio pudding topping and my dirt by a crumbled cupcake!

There you go my friends, this is my Frog story and I'm sticking to it! On time I learned to love these guys to the point of refusing to dissect one when I was in HS earning proudly I should say, my first F!! oh well...there's a frog out there owning me her life!

Thanks for visiting my friends! I love Halloween because even a non fancy, not perfect and everyday home baked cupcake, can turn into something out of a children's tale with just a little bit of imagination and a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Toe of Frog Halloween Lemon Cupcake 

Ingredients:

1 Box Lemon Cake

(and everything you need to put it together according to the box)

1 packet (4 servings) Pistachio Instant Pudding

(and everything you need to put it together according to the box)

Key Lime mini marshmallows (optional)

1/2 bag Wilton green Candy Melts

1 small bag of Mint M&M's

Decorative Gummy Frogs (or any other slimey critter you might have)

Directions:

Mix your cake according to instructions. Cup the mix into Jumbo Muffins non stick tin pan. At this point I decided to add a couple of key lime marshmallows I just found at a local store for .99. Delicious!

Bake at 350 F for about 18-20 minutes. Let them cool.

While they cool prepare your pudding mix according the the packet instructions. 

Pull your jumbo cupcakes out of the tin pan. Poke a couple of holes in the cupcakes using the handle of a wooden spoon and pour the instant pudding mix on them. *Note: Don't over mix your pudding, since it's instant it will start to set super fast. perhaps just a couple of whisks or use some regular Pistachio Pudding not instant.  I got distracted by the phone while whisking and very little went into the "poked holes". Refrigerate.

If you have some extra pudding top and cover areas of the cupcake  that were not covered with the initial pouring add a couple of M&M's on each cupcake

Melt your candy tablets and spread them on the cupcakes to create the slime.

Crumble the less pretty looking cupcake on top of the slime and  top them up with your Frog or critter! Enjoy!

Prep Time 10 minutes                                 Cook Time 18-20 minutes                    Serves 6

Hopping over with my Sweet Cupcakes to these Fa-BOO-lous parties:

The Wondering Brain, Cheerios and Lattes, Or So She Says, It's Overflowing, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Suburbs Mama, Twig Studios, Nifty Thrifty Things, Flamingo Toes, Navy Wifey Peters, Spatulas on Parade, VMG206, Titi Crafty, Cookin' For the Seven Dwarfs, Who Needs a Cape, Summer's Scraps, Twelve O' Eight, The Velvet Moon Baker, Your Homebased Mom, My Mixing Spoon, Bowdabra, Caft-O-Maniac, The Chicken Chick, This Gal Cooks, Cupcake-n-Bake, A Pinch of Joy, Jembellish, Keep It Simple, Alderberry Hill, DIY Home Sweet Home, Say Not Sweet Anne. Lines Across, Flour Me with Love, Under the Table and Dreaming, Ms. enPlace, Between Naps on The Porch, Rain on a Tin Roof, The PandP Kitchen, The Tumbleweed Contessa, Claire Justine oxox, Cozy Little House, Made in a Day, The Blackberry Vine, Mad Skills, Love Grows Wild, Home Stories A to Z, Table for 7, Ladybug Blessings, I Gotta Create, Chef In Training, Mandy's Recipe Box, Nap-Time Creations, A Southern Fairy Tale, Huckleberry Love, Jam Hands, Not Just a Housewife, This and That, Ducks 'n a Row, Lady Behind the Curtain, Made to be a Momma, Ginger Snap Crafts, Mom's Test Kitchen, The Shady Porch, My Girlish Whims, Crystal and Co, The Well Crafted Home, The Everyday Home, Kitchen Meets Girl, Thank You Honey, The Trendy Treehouse, Dream a Little Bigger, Smart School House, White Lights on Wednesday, Polkadots on Parade, Real Housewives of Riverton, SNAP, 733 Blog, This Silly Girl's Life, Someday Crafts, We Like to Learn as We Go, Memories by the Mile, The 36th Avenue, 52 Mantels, Sweet Haute, a Handful of Everything, Katherine's Corner, The Mandatory Mooch, What's Cooking Love, Lamberts Lately, The Crafty Blog Stlaker, Live Laugh Rowe, Gingerly Made, Brambleberry Cottage, Recipes for my boys, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, The Best Blog Recipes, Craftionary, The Answer is Chocolate, My Turn (for Us), Simply Sweet Home,Living Better Together, The Pink Junkie, Tidy Mom, Just Us Four, Home Maid Simple, Dear Creatives, Diana Rambles, 504 Main, Tatertots and Jello, A Little Claireification, Angels Homestead, Six Sisters Stuff, Be Different Act Normal, Delish

Sharknado Cupcake Recipe

Hola Amigos! I'm sure by now you are all excited about the best film of this summer season: Sharknado!!!! Nothing celebrates Shark Week better than a powerful whirlwind carrying thousands of sharks ready to devour an entire city!!! Ok, Ok...so the movie is one of the dumbest syfy films so far...borderline comedy! but Shark Week is still awesome and to celebrate my love of all things shark and bad acting, I made fun cupcakes!

This is a tongue in cheek kind of post, if you are sensitive to realistic looking gummy sharks and fake blood, better read tomorrow's post I promise you it will be a serious one, but for now...you've been warned, if you are game, sit down and enjoy a few of my favorite personal Shark Facts.

I love sharks! Since little I learned to admire them and to fear them. We were at the beach every weekend and the rule was, if you hear dad yell "Get Out Of The Water" you just did it! no questions ask! Ever!!! I'm sure you know why...

My Grad School thesis was about the Economical vs Biological Impact of the Commercialization of Sharks (specific species). I got high scores from the 3 judging professors whoot whoot...lol..I think I know my sharks alright!

Believe it or not, I know how to prepare a killer Shark Fin Soup! From collecting, drying, removing skin to separating and bleaching the little fibers to make the soup, which is a delicacy in Asian cultures. My dad thought me the process and it's an experience I will never forget. Note: We never killed a shark for this purpose, sometimes fisherman have a few as bycatch for the day.

We are a bigger threat to sharks than they are to us. Granted nobody wants to be attacked or eaten by a shark, chances are you are most likely to be bitten by another human being in your lifetime than by a shark. The practice of 'shark finning" for the above mentioned soup, sport and fear among other things, are  the main threats to these animals.

The Shark Conservation Act was signed into a Law in January 2011

White Sharks can smell a drop of blood from up to mile away, but most sharks can smell a drop of blood 3000 yards away.

Sharks don't sleep like we do. Most of them need to constant be in the move in order to get oxygen through their gills and bodies, so they "sleep swim" (not to be confused with sleep walk) part of their brains are less active and allows them to rest.

And on the subject of sleeping now that you are more likely to put that bikini and swim in the middle of the night right after watching a JAWS marathon, I want to thank you for your visit today! Enjoy Shark Week and remember than even Sharknado Cupcakes taste better with a Pinch of Love! (for sharks)

Besitos,

Lizy

Sharknado Cupckaes

Ingredients:

1 Bag of White Cupcake Mix

1 Cup Cream Soda

2 TBSP Raspberry Preserves

5 Straberries

5 Blakberries

Vanilla Icing

Cotton Candy

Shark Gummies

Directions:

Pre Heat oven at 350 degrees. Follow instructions on your cupcake bag. I replaced what the instructions ask for water and replaced it for the same amount of cream soda. Fill your cupcake liners and bake for about 15-20 minutes or follow bag instructions.

For the "Blood" Filling

In a saucepan on low heat add and mix 1/4 cup cream soda, preserves and fruit. Heat up until mix starts to thicken, about 10 minutes. Set aside and cool to room temperature. Once cooled, put the mix in a blender and blend on high until smooth. Inject the center of the cupcakes with this mix.

Once filled, top each cupcake with some vanilla icing. Shape a piece of your cotton candy into a funnel shape (resembling a tornado) and place it on top of the icing with a few shark gummies.

Take A Bite of your cupcakes and enjoy.

Preparation: 12 minutes         Cook Time 15-20 minutes      Serves 12

Sharing my Review on Sharknado at these Fabulous Parties:

Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, Craftionary, The Best Blog Recipes, Tidy Mom, Home Maid Simple, My Romantic Home, French Country Cottage, Happy Hour Projects, One Tough Mother, 504 Main, Love and Laundry. A Simple Five, Liz Marie Blog, Becoming Martha, Happy and Blessed Home, The Pin Junkie, Living Better Together, The Answer is Chocolate, A Peek into my Paradise, My Turn (for Us). Le Chateau des Fleurs, Chic on a Shoestring, Claire Justine oxox, Serenity Now, Six Sister's Stuff, Cheerios and Lattes, Cooking with Curls, 4 Little Fergusons, Just Us Four, Angels Homestead, Spatulas on Parade, Suburbs Mama, The Tablescaper, The Foley Fam, Twigg Studios, VMG206, Flamingo Toes, Nifty Thrifty Things, Tartertots and Jello, Classy Clutter, Too Much Time, Claire Justine oxox Ms. enPlace Mommy Mentionables, WCFS, TwelveOeight, TitiCrafty, Made from Pinterest, Frugal Foodie Mama, My Mixing Spoons, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Lines Across, The Chicken Chick, Say Not Sweet Anne, Flour Me with Love, Cupcake-n-Bake, The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen, jembellish, Sew Can Do, Keeping it Simple Crafts, Boogieboard Cottage, Alderberry Hill, DIY Home Sweet Home, Under the Table and Dreaming. Everyday Moms Meals, The Princess and her Cowboys, The Tumbleweed Contessa, Kathe with an E, The Blackberry Vine, Ladybug Blessings, Handmade Cuddles, Pint Sized Baker, Rain on a Tin Roof, Setting for Four, Huckleberry Love, Chef in Training, Love Grows Wild, Sugar Bee Crafts, Nap-Time Creations, Powerful Mothering, Adventures of a DIY Mom, Not Just a Housewife, Memories by the Mile, Mandy's Recipe Box, Clean and Scentsible, Smart School House, Lady Behind the Curtain, Made to be a Momma, Ginger Snap Crafts, My Girlish Whims, DIY Crafty Projects, The Everyday Home, Ducks'n a Row,Kitchen Meets Girl, Creations by Kara, All She Cooks, The Shady Porch, Thank You Honey, Crystal & Co., Life with the Crust Cut Off, SNAP, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, We Like to Learn as We Go, The Style Sisters, Feeding Big, Fine Craft Guild, The Real Housewives of Riverton, The Brambleberry Cottage, Polkadots on Parade, We Made That, Sweet Haute, The Crafty Blog Stalker, Saving 4 Six, Lanberts Lately, What's cooking, Love?, The Mandatory Mooch, The 36th AVENUE, Katherine's Corner, CrazyLou Creations, Chocolate, Chocolate and More, House of the Hepworths, Krative Creationz, Sparkles and a Stove, Artsy Fartsy Mama, Living Well Spending Less, Domestic SuperHero, Diana Rambles, Simply Designing, Easy Life Meal and Party Planning, It's Overflowing, The Inspiration Network

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Beer and Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

Hola Amigos! Happy Weekend to all of you especially to all the fathers this Sunday. Today I'm sharing with you the perfect dessert to serve dad on his special day, but also for summer BBQs , birthdays or gatherings with friends this grilling season! My beer and chocolate cupcakes for the beer lover in your house...never forgetting some chocolate for the lady behind the man!

I have tried this recipe several times  I found  it a while back  in a little insert that came with a specialty beer set I got my hubs a few Christmas ago, it's pretty straight forward and since then I've changed the taste of the cupcakes by using different flavored beers. This is my adaptation to the original recipe.

Beer and Chocolate Cupcakes

1 stick Butter, softened

1 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar

1/4 Cup Unsweetened Cocoa

2 Eggs

1/2  tsps Salt

1/2 tsps Baking Soda

1/2 tsps Baking Powder

1 Cup Flour

1/2 Cup Flavored Beer, I used Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss

1/2 Cup Water

1 tsps vanilla extract

Heat up your oven at 325 degrees and place liners on a 12 cupcake baking pan. Set aside.

Mix together butter, brown sugar and cocoa until everything is well integrated. Add eggs one at a time and mix everything at medium speed. 

In a separate bowl, whisk together the salt, baking soda, baking powder and flour until everything is well combined.

In another bowl mix beer, water and vanilla.

Now it's time add wet and dry ingredients to the chocolate batter. First liquid, followed by dry in an alternate way while mixing on medium speed. Repeat the procedure until all the ingredients are mixed.

Spoon this mix on the lined cupcakes  3/4  full. Bake for 18-20 minutes until a toothpick in the middle comes clean. 

Icing

1 Cup of Butter

2 TBSP Flavored Beer used above

2 Cups Powdered Sugar

2 TBSP Heavy Cream

1 Tsp Vanilla.

Beat this ingredients together until fluffy and ready to spread over cooled cupcakes.

Listo,

Since I'm really bad at decorating, I found these delicious gummy "smoochies" and added a touch of whimsy to my cupcakes!

Aren't they a cute way of giving daddy a kiss?

You can really taste this particular beer on the cupcakes and the icing...in fact it intensifies the chocolate flavor! Yummm!

Give your husband a Big Chocolate Smooch this Sunday!

Wishing all the Fathers a wonderful Father's Day full of love and laughter.

Always keep in mind my friends, that everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!...and a beer!

Besitos,

Lizy

Sharing some spiked cupcakes at these Fabulous Parties:
Cozy Little House
Memories by the Mile
Organized SAHM
Love Bake Good Cakes
Our Home away from Home
Nap Time Creations
Sugar Bee Crafts
Pint Sized Baker
Hun..what's for dinner
Kathe with an E
Love Grows Wild
I Gotta Try That
The Tumbleweed Contesssa
Rain on a Tin Roof
Serendipity You
Ms. enPlace
Sweet2Eat Baking
Th ePlaid and Paisley Kitchen
twelve0eight
Spatulas on Parade
Rattlebridge Farm
Flamingo Toes
Diana Rambles
Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons
Walking on Sunshine
Sincerely, Paula
Sunny Simple Life
The Thriftiness Miss
My Romantic Home
The Dedicated House
Just Us 4
Call Me PMc
The Best Blog Recipes
The Tablescaper
Sew-Licious Home
VMG206
The Wondering Brain
Desert Now, Dinner Later
Life on Lakeshore Drive
Will Cook for Smiles
Frugal Foodie Mama
Claire Justine oxox
Cupcake-n-bake
Under The Table and Dreaming
Chef in Training

Mandarin Orange Tropical Cupcakes

Hola Amigos! Hope you all had a great weekend and got to take advantage of the good weather if you had it in your neck of the woods. I'm thrilled to find that a variety of fruits are on sale at our local supermarkets. Strawberries $1.98 for 2 pounds, blackberries for $.99 a pint, mini mandarin oranges for $1.25 per pound! I'm a happy girl! There is nothing better than fresh fruit and now that I'm finally starting my diet I will have no excuse to get my healthy dose of vitamin C and fiber the healthy way!

Today I'm sharing with you my Mandarin Orange Tropical cupcakes, my little one says they are SpongeBob cupcakes because one of the main ingredients as you will see, they are very tasty, easy to make and fast. Nothing extraordinary just good all fashion cupcakes for busy moms and families on the run!

Mandarin Orange Tropical Cupcakes

1 (18.25 oz) package of Pineapple Upside Down Cake

3 Eggs

1/3 Cup of Oil

1 (11 oz) Can of Mandarin Orange Segments

(save the juice, about 1 Cup)

1/3 Cup of Orange Juice, Mandarin or Pineapple

Make your cake mix according to directions with the addition of the mandarin segments. When it comes to the "Add Water Part" usually the box says 1 1/3 cup, use the juice of the mandarin orange segments (1 cup) and 1/3 of your orange, mandarin or pineapple juice. I had this wonderful Pineapple-Coconut nectar I used! Magic!!!

Fill out about 24 cupcakes and bake for 18-21 minutes until a pick comes out clean.

Frosting

1 (8 oz)  Container frozen Whipped Topping, thawed

1 (20 oz) Can Crushed Pineapple

1 cup of Sweetened Shredded Coconut

1 (3.5 oz) package of Lemon Instant Pudding Mix

In a large bowl, beat together all the ingredients and top your cupcakes.

Listo

You guys know I love chocolate, but this cupcakes are "the bomb"! Very refreshing for Spring and Summer!

A lot of flavor packed in just a tiny bite

These cupcakes will have you singing "Who Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea...SpongeBob Square Pants" to the top or your lungs....all day long! LOL

I found these tiny mandarin oranges at the store, they are so sweet, and perfect for topping our pretty cupcakes!

Thank you for visiting today friends, hope you like my easy but yummy cupcakes!

Remember everything tastes better with a little imagination and a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Sharing some of my SpongeBob Cupcakes at these Fabulous Parties:
Worthing Court
The NY Melrose Family
Fluster Buster
Mom's Test Kitchen
Twin Dragonfly Designs
This Silly Girls Life
Primp
The 36th Avenue
The Shabby Creek Cottage
The Mandatory Mooch
Real Coake Family
Consider me Inspired
Sweet 2 Eat
Made in a Day
Sincerely, Paula
The Best Blog Recipes
My Turn (for Us)

Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons
The Home Girl

Rattlebridge Farm
My Romantic Home
One Artsy Mama
Love and Laundry
Chic on a Shoestring
Diana Rambles
Just Us Four
Dear Creatives
Nosh My Way
Cheerios and Lattes
Flamingo Toes
Will Cook for Smiles
Pint Sized Baker
Cozy Little House
Handy Man, Crafty Woman
Serenity You