This week Emilie and I set out to create our very own twist on cupcakes for the Duncan Hines Red Carpet Cupcake Challenge. While we couldn’t enter them all in the competition, here is what our creative juices came up with.
Amaretto Stone Sour Cupcake
Based on the classic Amaretto Stone Sour drink, the cupcake is infused with orange juice with an Amaretto liqueur buttercream with a hint of sweet and sour mix and garnished with a maraschino cherry.
(VOTE FOR THIS CUPCAKE and see the recipe)
Mandarin Orange Cupcake
With a similar cake base as the first, this one takes the orange to a new level with an orange buttercream and mandarin orange garnish.
Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcake
Using a lemon cake mix with lemonade, this cupcake is topped with a decadent lemon cream cheese frosting. It is best served cold for the full cream cheese experience and is garnished with blueberries and lemon peel.
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I will take one of each, please
They all sound absolutely amazing!
Cat,
Cupcakes are the reason I bake.
Cat,
I wish you both success. I can’t imagine all of the fun (and oh how delicious) it will be for the judges to taste all of those cupcakes.
A girl after my own heart!
ps. I bought some sugar today…and realized now I have no eggs. LOL I’m on a roll!
Yum….they sound amazing.
Please, I NEED to know how to make that lemon/lemonade/cream cheese cupcake, I am a puddle of drool here!
ps – voted for you
Mmmmm I want some of those! Too hot to turn on the oven though!
Give me!
They all look so good!
Oh my goodness . . . those sound amazing!
They all look amazIng. I voted for you!
All of these look absolutely Delish!
I love the simple designs of these. They look perfect for a tea or garden party.
Yum. I want the one with the cherry on top
Wow, those sound amazing!!
I voted–they all look yummy!
HOLY COW! Will you make me some of each for my birthday? Awesome! Wonderful photography too!
I voted for you!
this is pure torture for a preggo! That cream cheese one with blueberries looks like heaven right now!!
oh, and I voted…again
Those seriously look to perfect to eat lol.
I also voted!
Kas
All of them look so good!
They all sound incredible!
Forget one of each. I’ll take a dozen and you totally just killed my diet!
Voted. Amaretto Stone Sour Cupcake? Heaven, anyone? LOL
Drool! I would like 12 of each please.
Oh my those look amazing!
I want this cupcake. It looks outstanding but so not on my diet
Oh my YUMMY-Deliciousness!!! I’m off to vote!!!
omg they sound delicious!!!
Mmm!!!! Now I want cupcakes
They all look absolutely delightful!! You are a talented woman–yum!!
Yummy….they looks divine. I am going to have to attempt to make some here at home.