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Cherry Limeade Cupcakes

Who'd have thought? Yep! i found a recipe online and boy are they good!! When i can find the receipe, I'll post it and the credit deserving to its creator. In the mean time, enjoy the picture and just imagine what they tasted liked. They sure had some serious PUCKER FACTOR!! Yummy!!!

Edited: The receipe comes from Oh you tastey little things and is amazing!! Enjoy!

Cherry Limeade Cupcakes***:

This recipe should make about 24 cupcakes

INGREDIENTS:
3 cups cake flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp limeade concentrate
3 eggs
3/4 cup plain yogurt (you can use milk, but I think the yogurt adds a nice TANG! to the flavour.)

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix together the flour, salt, baking soda and powder and set aside. In a medium sized bowl, cream the butter until smooth then add the sugar and cream together. Once the butter and sugar are creamed add in the limeade concentrate. Mix in one egg at a time. Add in flour mixture 1/3 at a time. When flour is thoroughly mixed, mix in the yogurt. Batter will be slightly lumpy, but should be smooth kind of like pancake batter. Divide the batter evenly into lined muffin tins and bake for about 15-20 minutes. Allow to cool.

Once the cupcakes have cooled, poke a few (5ish) holes in the top of the cupcake, not quite to the bottom of the cake. Mix together the remainder of the limeade concentrate (about 3/4 cup) with about 1/2 cup powdered sugar (You can add more or less, depending on how tart you would like your cupcakes to be I like tart, so I went with about 1/4 cup.) Whisk the mixture well, so there aren’t any lumps. Pour about a tablespoon of the syrup over the holes in the cupcake, slowly, so that the syrup absorbs into the cake. You can add more if you like, just go back over the cupcakes a second time if there is any syrup left.

For the icing I made a standard buttercream, but I used the maraschino cherry juice in place of the milk and vanilla extract. I added a little extra food colouring to the icing to make it even more pink, but you can make it with just the juice and it is still a delightfully pale pink colour.
Keep the cupcakes refrigerated, if only to enhance the flavour. They can be left at room temperature for a day or two once iced, if kept in an airtight container, but I wouldn’t suggest leaving them out any longer. They taste best cold!

I decorated my cupcakes with some white non perils, a slice of lime and a maraschino cherry.

Cottage Berry Cupcakes

Cottage Cheese Raspberry Cupcakes:
A variation on a receipe from 500 Cupcakes by Fergal Connolly.

Makes 1 dozen.

Ingredients:
2 1/3 cups cake flour
3/4 cups superfine sugar
1 tbsp. baking powder
Pinch of salt
2 lightly beaten eggs
4 tbsp. sunflower oil
1 1/4 cups low-fat milk
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese
2 cups fresh raspberries*

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 12 cup muffin pan.In a medium bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt with a spoon.In a large bowl, beat the eggs, oil, milk, and cottage cheese with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the flour mixture and stir until nearly combined. Fold in the raspberries, but do not overmix. Spoon the mixture into prepared pan. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.Remove pan from the oven and cool for 5 minutes. Then remove the muffins and cool on a rack. Store in an airtight container for up to 2 days, or freeze for up to 3 months.

*You can also use blueberries, cherries, or apricot (the latter being sliced); all of them being 2 cups.

The icing was peculiar as I used 1/2C of butter, creamed with 3C Powdered sugar and 1tsp almond extract. Once blended, add 1C cottage cheese and mix well. My icing didn't set up as well as I wanted, or go through my icing tip as planned. Next time I make this recipe, i will add more sugar and hand ice the cupcakes.

They are delicious with or without the icing. Served with warm butter for breakfast might be a great idea!!

Amazing prizes provided by:
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Iron Cupcake Earth: Cheese

October's Iron Cupcake Earth ~
Sandy over at No One Puts Cupcakes In A Corner is hosting a phenominal blog event that is as much fun as it sounds. Last month was great and if you missed your chance, here it is again.

Details: On the first of every month, a 'secret ingredient' will be posted for all Iron Cupcake participants. The object is to come up with the most creative and delicious cupcake involving the secret ingredient.

Secret Ingredient: This month's secret ingredient: Cheese; Sweet cheese, savory cheese, soy cheese, melting cheese, grated cheese, you name it cheese!

How to Join: The contest is open to everyone. Email IronCupcakeEarth@wi.rr.com with the following information to join:

Name
City, State, Country
Blog Address
Flickr Name
Referral: Baking up Chaos (That's me!)

This months prizes are provided by:

ETSY artist ART ON THE MENU with her awesome little cardboard cupcake, her link is: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5738002 and a pair of cupcake earrings from Lots of Sprinkles at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6057281. As an added bonus for October only we have a sassy and sweet T from Bakelove Bakewear, http://www.bakelove.com/cupcake_t-shirt.html. Last and certainly not least, don’t forget our corporate prize providers: HEAD CHEFS by FIESTA PRODUCTS, http://www.fiestaproducts.com/, HELLO CUPCAKE by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, http://blog.hellocupcakebook.com/, JESSIE STEELE APRONS http://www.jessiesteele.com/; the CUPCAKE COURIER http://www.cupcakecourier.com/; TASTE OF HOME books, http://www.tasteofhome.com/. Iron Cupcake:Earth is sponsored in part by 1-800-Flowers, http://www.1800flowers.com/.