These delicious cupcakes are perfect for parties, especially at school when there is a good chance a child may have a food allergy. Everyone should be able to enjoy yummy cake. This recipe will have every child (adults too) smiling ear-to-ear!
There should be no bitter taste at all. Maybe you added too much baking soda? Check your vinegar and baking soda to make sure they are fresh. I have made this cake and cupcakes (same batter) too may times to count, not once has it come out bitter. Sorry yours came out that way.
Dear Little Bluebird, Mary,
I love your wacky cakes. Thank you for posting and the lively pictures too.
Could I use coconut oil I stead of vegetable oil?, I am about to try the lemon wacky cake.
Thank you!
Best wishes from Greece.
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First, prepare your bacon. I like bacon crispy and prefer to cook it in my microwave. I place the bacon between layers of paper towels to soak up some of the bacon grease, which makes the bacon crispier. I cook the bacon for 4-5 minutes in my microwave.
Making the mini-heart-shaped bacon for cupcake toppings is a little more challenging and takes some patience! First, using a cutting board and a knife, slice one piece of bacon into several thin strips (about 1/2 inch wide and four inches long).
Pour 3 cups powdered sugar into a large mixing bowl. Pour heavy cream into the powdered sugar a little bit at a time. Beat the sugar and cream together with the hand-held mixer. Keep adding heavy cream, bit by bit, until the icing is thick and fluffy.
Amazing, over-the-top cupcakes have been popular for years but my Crazy Cupcakes recipe is a real game changer! Why search for separate cupcake recipes when you can use this one to make delicious homemade cupcakes filled with your favorite flavors?
Not only will I show you how to make cupcakes, but this easy recipe will allow you to use your favorite flavors. Just like my Crazy Cookie Dough and Crazy Dough Recipes, this recipe is an easy recipe with endless possibilities.
After you prepare the sponge batter you simply add in your choice of mix-ins. From classics like a vanilla cupcake recipe to fun flavors like Chocolate and Peanut Butter, I have you covered. My personal favorite is the Birthday Cake flavor!
If you want to see all the flavors of frosting you can use, you have to check out my Crazy Frosting Recipe! I have a recipe for all your favorite frosting flavors from mint chip or coffee to strawberry and of course chocolate!
The written recipe includes the master batter ingredients and instructions plus suggestions for 6 of my favorite flavors. Get creative and make your own as well! Here are some cupcakes I suggest you try making:
Red Velvet Cupcakes are a classic, combining moist cake, a hint of cocoa powder, and cream or cream cheese-based frosting. The result not only looks so delicious and decadent with rich red color but tastes like chocolate heaven!
This happens to be one of my personal favorite flavors! I love the lightly spiced cake combined with the sweet grated fresh carrot. This carrot cake cupcake recipe is a great way to get in those extra veggies!
Hi Gemma, this recipe saves so much time. Thank you! Could you kindly help with a coffee flavoured cupcake? Also, if I add vanilla essence to the basic batter, would this make plain vanilla cupcakes? And chocolate flavour?
I know I shared this on the Facebook page already. But Today at work, my boss was saying it should be cupcake Monday, after I made the chocolate peanutbutter cupcake and the cookies and cream cupcake for a friend for his birthday last week, and the extra I shared with my work colleagues and family, these cupcakes with the butter cream frosting were such a hit!
Apologies I realised that you did state clearly that one can use a hand mixer. Please disregard my question. Many thanks. Making this for my grandchildren ! I am IT challenged (69 years) and have no idea how to post pictures. Sorry ?
I had big plans for the decoration of these cupcakes when we started but Dilan had other ideas, and I think they still turned out really good. We used mini marshmallows, gold confetti sprinkes and brand new Moo Free Organic Dairy Free Choccy Drops on top of our delicious chocolate icing.
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Make these fluffy, moist, and delicious chocolate cupcakes with our favorite easy chocolate crazy cake recipe. These foolproof (and magically egg-free and dairy-free) cupcakes are perfect for your next party!
In my humble opinion, everyone should have a handful of awesome cake, cookie, and cupcake recipes in their baking arsenal, and this recipe for classic crazy cake chocolate cupcakes is easily one of our go-tos.
This is our go-to recipe for egg/dairy allergies, since it has no eggs, milk, or butter; and, fun fact: you can even sub out the all purpose flour for your favorite gluten-free flour, and they still come out great!
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Crazy cake chocolate cupcakes are super simple to make, if you have a whisk and a mixing bowl you can do it. There are no eggs and no butter, just pantry staples. The cupcakes are also soft, full of chocolate flavor, and devilishly good.
Isn't it funny how there are some recipes that we just end up going back to no matter what? I have found that there are some recipes that I do get away from for years and then when I am reminded of that recipe again, I go back to it and make it all of the time again. These cupcakes look fabulous.
I found it was best to add the baking soda to the cabbage glaze after all the glaze ingredients had been mixed rather than making the blue color beforehand. There are fatty acids in the coconut oil and they will turn the cabbage glaze slightly reddish-purple. So all the work you put into getting the precise color would be for naught if you pre-made the blue. Also, the blue glaze might look like gray sludge at first. I almost gave up on these cupcakes because of it. Just give it a few minutes and the color will be brilliant. That will be the end of the emotional roller coaster ride. I am so thrilled that red cabbage actually makes a beautiful blue color, and am so pleased with how these cupcakes turned out. Until I find my vegan cupcake book, this will definitely be my go-to recipe for chocolate cupcakes.
This is my version of the classic crazy cake/wacky cake/cockeyed cake. It is an easy vegan chocolate cake that can be made directly in the baking pan. I use melted coconut oil in place of vegetable oil and cold coffee in place of water. The vegan glaze is made blue with red cabbage and green with matcha powder. This recipe is perfect for Earth Day or a space themed party.
Like all of the baked goods in Go Dairy Free, I tested these vegan chocolate cupcakes at sea level and high altitude (just over 4500 feet). So you will notice a high altitude adjustment option right in the recipe!
I usually make homemade dairy-free frosting, but actually had two tubs of Wholesome Organic Vanilla Frosting on hand to sample. For the swirls that you see, I used up both tubs to cover 12 cupcakes. It went over quite well! For the second tub, I opted to scrape the frosting into a mixing bowl and whip it briefly with a hand mixer. This made it softer and easier to pipe.
That is very high altitude. If you had way too much batter, that means it was expanding too much. I might try reducing the baking soda even more (perhaps to 1/4 teaspoon), and see how that works. The lower level of oxygen is causing the batter to expand much more than it would at lower altitude.
Nikki's mom describes it to be "super useful" for busy mums and children. The cupcakes are sugar-free and fat-free. They are made from vegetables and jam/mustard sprinkled on bread. Nikki's mum also says that it only takes about 1-5 minutes to make them.
Nikki was suprised to find her mom more cheerful the usual. After making a perky TV show voice, she begs Nikki to try one. Nikki ate it as she says "not to hurt her feelings", and gave her a thumbs up when her mum asks if it's good although she wanted to throw up. When Nikki's dad dashes and sprays bug spray on Nikki, she explains it's for the new TV shows. It gets cancelled along with other TV shows when Nikki freaks the TV staff out.
Initially, I was attracted to high hourly wage of $12.50 per hour but quickly swapped that out for other vices; it was an institution funded by the obscenely rich who drooled tourists spending $12 for a box of grossly overpriced (albeit pretty tasty) cupcakes who acted like they had never seen a baked confection before.
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