I love cupcakes. Matter of fact I think cupcakes are a meal of their own kind. Okay not a meal but a dessert, they are not only cake and they are not pie. The author of Hello Cupcake was on Paula Deen yesterday. I rarely watch TV during that time, had it not been for the rain I would have probably never known. Hello Cupcake is the most beautiful book on cupcakes I have seen to date. I did not buy it, but I have drooled over it in Walmart for about thirty minutes.

This Thanksgiving I am making Peas and Carrots Cupcakes. When my nieces and great nephews are running around saying they don’t love vegetables I will tell them they have to eat peas and carrots for desert. I know they will love them!

Here is her basic Vanilla Cupcake Recipe:

Basic Vanilla Cupcakes:

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 stick butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.

In another bowl, whisk together the vanilla extract, milk and vegetable oil.

Cream together the butter and sugar with a hand-held mixer in a large bowl. Add the eggs 1 at a time and mix to combine. Alternate the dry and wet ingredients to the egg mixture, starting and ending with the dry ingredients.

Pour the batter 2/3 full into the cupcake tins and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool before frosting.

One thing they did say was with a mix use buttermilk instead of water. I bet that is a good rich cupcake.

Now to ice them you use green icing. I always use either a buttercream or a 50/50 butter/ crisco ratio in the fall. If Texas has a hot day I would have to use all Crisco with powdered sugar and a couple of tablespoons of milk.  Then you add green food coloring or the icing coloring.

The green in the peas is green M & Ms, the carrots are orange Starbursts rolled and sliced like chunks of carrots. You place them upright on the cupcake like you are slicing into a mound of peas and carrots.

Walmart now carries just green M & Ms I saw them the other day.

I plan on doing a test run so I will post a picture when I try the recipe out.

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