Oreo Cheesecake Cupcakes

Ask anyone out there who knows me well, and they can tell you without a blistering doubt, I hate cheese. I just do - I don't eat fondue, I don't put extra Parmesan on my pasta, I don't even like grilled cheese sandwiches.

However, put cheese in a cake, and I would devour it in 5 seconds, regardless of size. This, ladies and gentlemen, is proof that cake is a cure all.

Now, add cheese with one of the world's favourite dunking cookies and you've got a winner! And fortunately for us all, the Oreo Cheesecake Cupcake is so simple that you could even rope in your kids or (shudder) boyfriends/husbands to help do all the work.

Best news ever: no bits of flour or butter were harmed in the making of this concoction.

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The Margaret Cupcake.

So my dear granny is 81 years old. She's extremely sweet, alluring and fabulous. She plays cards to pass the time and spends her weekends at slumber parties held by her equally rambuctious friends. They gossip, gamble and eat cupcakes to pass the time away.

Not only is she the coolest grandma, but she bakes the best cookies and desserts. Her signature is mini pineapple tarts that just take your breath away. That, is my goal in the near future, just soak in her goddess-like poweress in the kitchen and live like her - on the edge and grasping each day by the horns.

For now, I can only wish to be half as cool as she is in time to come.

She celebrates her 81st birthday this weekend, and to surprise her, I made her something that is uber sweet and satisfying. She loves them raisins, but unfortunately, she is not able to eat too much sugar so I had to think of a diabetic friendly recipe to help her out.

Great success folks, great success!

See the recipe for The Margaret Cupcake (diabetic friendly) after the jump.

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Peanut Butter Cupcakes + xtra love.

hello, my top heavy friend.

Making these cupcakes were a breeze - firstly, they are done in literally minutes. Secondly, they came out tasting like the way nature intended - a slow but pleasant and vicious attack on your tastebuds.

Everyone loved them, some even wanted seconds. It is one of those cupcakes that is made when you have no time and need to impress. The perfect "crush-turn-into-a-boyfriend" indulgence.

Plus, these cupcakes don't rise much so they turn out to look like mini cakes. I took mine out of the liners while serving them and that made them look oh-so-cute!

The surprising thing in this recipe is i added prune juice in - the tardiness of it brought out the saltiness of the peanut butter and it left that great fruity after taste. Trust me, this works like crazy.

sprinkles make me happy.

Peanut buttery goodness after the jump.

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Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes

cherries are almost like strawberries, ok!

So enough of chocolate! For the past few receipes, I realised somehow or other, I'll incorporate some chocolate. Yes, I'm a convicted chocoloholic and I need to wean myself off it. 

(to chocolate, pretend I never said such thing!)

Well, in lieu of my parents' birthdays, both in March, they have requested something fruity and tangy. While I was brainstorming, I came across a old cartoon that is the reminiscent of my childhood. Then the wires in my head connected.

Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes!

Oh, I could see it already, crumbly, fluffy, bursting with strawberries.

But then, I wanted a challenge - I wanted to create a crumbly cupcake that turned into custard once it was cold. So I store them away in the fridge without worry. I wanted strawberries to flavour the cupcake and not use any sort of extract or essence.

I was on a mission.

So, combining my expertise (which is by the way super limited) and some research, I am pleased to present an original concoction - the Strawberry Shortcake Cupcake. 

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we all love cupcakes.

cupcakes, just begging to be iced.

Yes, I dare say, we all love cupcakes. they are the buttery personification of comfort.
I love cupcakes that are unadventurous, straightforward and buttery. Something about cupcakes just scream "eat me!".

So I embarked on a journey to find THE perfect cupcake recipe which fulfills these criterias:

1. Buttery
2. Easy
3. Quick
4. Yummy

And yes, a recipe actually exist.

See the recipe for Butter & Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Dark Chocolate Icing after the jump.

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