Okay I know what you are saying "It's not even Thanksgiving yet! You cant possibly be talking about Christmas for another 2 weeks." And I get it. I totally feel you on the whole Thanksgiving is becoming the forgotten holiday. But its never a bad time to think about cupcakes and never too soon to start thinking of Christmas baking. When it comes to my family and baking I'm all over the cupcakes. Cupcakes are my thing. The best way to describe it is if you have seen Glee you know Rachel says that gold stars are her thing? And they are everywhere? That's how it is with me. One day I would love to open up my own cupcake/coffee shop. I already have the name picked out. Although it may never happen its still nice to dream about it. Now back to what this blog was really about. Christmas Cupcakes. When ever there is a holiday or big event in my family I make cupcakes. When it comes to the Holidays I always try and theme the cupcakes to the Holiday. For Christmas I have already done Hot Chocolate cupcakes with homemade marshmallow whipped frosting. Last year I did candy cane cupcakes. This year I want to do something Christmasy but I want to add my own special little fun twist to it. So this afternoon I have been hunting around online for just an idea. I thought I would share one of my favorite ones with you. It's called a Pumpkin Nutella S'mores Cupcake. I made pumpkin cupcakes last year for Thanksgiving. They were so good. And I absolutely love Nutella I put it on basically anything. In my mind its never to late for Nutella. Plus S'mores never get old. If I don't make these for Christmas then I will definitely hold onto this recipe for another time for sure. If you would like to make these or just check out the recipe even. I will include it with this blog. If you make them or have made them or even eaten them let me know how it was in the comments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ingredients: Pumpkin Cake: 1 2/3 C. flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 C. sugar 3/4 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 tsp. ground ginger 1/2 C. oil 2 eggs 1/3 C. milk 1 C. pumpkin puree 6 graham crackers, crushed Nutella Frosting: 1/2 C. butter, softened 1/2 C. Nutella 2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 Tbsp. milk 2 4 C. powdered sugar Large Marshmallows for decoration Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners. 2. Sift flour, baking soda, sugar, salt cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground ginger together (or you can use pumpkin pie spice instead of the the separate spices). 3. Add oil, eggs, milk and pumpkin puree and stir until smooth. 4. Sprinkle a heaping teaspoon of crushed graham crackers on the bottom of each cupcake liners. Shake the pan to level the crumbs then fill each cupcake liner 3/4 full of batter. 5. Bake for 15-17 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. 6. Nutella Frosting: Beat butter and Nutella until smooth, Add cocoa powder, milk and 2 cups powdered sugar. Continue to add in more powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. Add more milk if it's too thick. 7. Place large marshmallows on a cookie sheet covered in foil and place in the oven and broil for 1-2 minutes. OKAY, you have to sit there and watch them broil or they will burn. Let them get toasty and then pull them out immediately! Sometimes I'll pop them in the freezer to blast chill them so they don't lose their shape. 8. Pipe Nutella frosting on cooled cupcakes, sprinkle with extra graham cracker crumbs and then top with a toasted marshmallow. XO That One Girl
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This month is flying by so fast. I don't feel like I should be half way threw this challenge already. Hopefully you are all enjoying it as much as I am.
14. Clouds. We haven't had very many clouds in the last couple days. So I am using a picture from Instagram page. 14. Clouds.
For those of you who haven't seen yet. I uploaded 6 new Paris In My Pocket pics. I can't wait for winter time I have so many picture ideas. Plus sometime soon (keeping my fingers crossed) my friend Cassandra and I are going up to the mountain to take Paris pics. So keep an eye out for those.
I love the 90s but who ever made this was wrong. On BMW alone they just contradicted themselves on more then one thing Cory cheated on Tonpanga when they went skiing. And there's a whole episode dedicated to the fact that Cory thinks he accidentally got Topanga pregnant. Not to mention also on TGIF there was step by step where Karen's biggest dream was to be a world famous country singer. Until she gives her demo and her entire life savings to a "record exec" who runs off with it. And her dreams are smashed. Don't get me started on Family matters. And Hello full house uncle Jesse Not to mention Stephanie was in a band as well. So this is wrong. Don't take this the wrong way I loved the 90s I'm a total 90's kid. I loved all of these shows especially BMW and I will admit I watch GMW. But the shows weren't all puppies and rainbows people. I mean even Saved By The Bell had an episode dedicated to Jesse being addicted to pills. Also in that same episode they were part of a band. So like I said I don't know what you were watching in the 90s. But this is what I watched and the things I remember. I'm sorry if this sounds like an attack. I'm not intending this to be mean. I just have seen this flouting around the social media sites for while now. And it has been bugging me. (Also I know some of you will also point out 90210 and Melrose Place but I was just pointing what happened on the Family Shows.)
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