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Zucchini Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Zucchini Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting | LeMoine Family Kitchen

Tis the season for zucchini, lots and lots of garden fresh zucchini. I love creating delicious recipes, both sweet and savory to feature this fantastic veggie! These Zucchini & Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting are so so good!!! They are moist, just a little sweetness and so flavorful! Similar flavors to a carrot cake, I decided to go with a simple and fabulous cream cheese frosting to top things off. …

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The Best Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream

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The Best Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream | LeMoine Family Kitchen The perfect moist, light and fluffy vanilla cupcake topped with a simple vanilla buttercream frosting.

 

I am a lover of cupcakes. If you follow along on LeMoine Family Kitchens Facebook page then you now I have a slight obsession with them and have found the most amazing cupcake shop in Asbury Park, Confections of a Rock$tar! They are just perfection and since I can’t get there every time I am craving a cupcake, I am always trying to bake them at home. I have tried many recipes and and so thankful that I finally found The Best Vanilla Cupcake with Vanilla Buttercream! …

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream

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You may have guessed that I was put in charge of desserts for this past weekend between this recipe and my Cheesecake Topped with Fresh Nectarine post yesterday. If you follow LFK on Facebook {and you totally should}, then you also know my weakness lately is the cupcake! This one here, YUM! Chocolate and strawberries just go together perfectly! With a chocolate dipped strawberry in mind, I thought why not make a Chocolate Cupcake with Strawberry Buttercream! A wonderfully moist chocolate cupcake and that creamy sweet strawberry buttercream… perfect combination of flavors and just beautiful!!!

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Easter Bunny Cupcakes

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So today, not so much a recipe but a fun idea I found on Pinterest that I made tonight for Jacks preschool class. There are a total cheat but they are so stinkin’ cute and i’m sure the kiddos will love em!!! So heres how to make them…. Yellow box cake mix, vanilla frosting dyed green (with the sprinkles on tip), yellow bunny peeps & speckled m&ms!
HAPPY EATS!!!!

Football Sunday Eats

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If you are like me, one of the best parts of football season is the fantastic snacks that go along with it. I put this delicious collection of Football Sunday Eats together to help you plan your next get together. Everything from garlicky shrimp to stromboli, pizza, wraps and cookies!!! I’ve got you covered!

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Nutella Cupcakes & Peanut Butter Frosting

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“Sweet dreams are made of these…” Yea, these cupcakes are that good!
My little guy asked to make chocolate cupcakes today and since we both love Nutella I figured why not go for something special?!?! Honestly, is there a more perfect combination then chocolate and peanut butter??? Nutella is one of those things that I am in love with. Jack and I enjoy dipping animal crackers into Nutella as a little snack! Another amazing use for Nutella, slathered in crepes with sliced bananas… heaven and yea I was lucky enough to have it in Nice France along with a Cafe au Lait!!!
Ok, I digress… back to the cupcake…
These cupcakes are wonderfully moist, perfectly sweet and topped with a simple and delicious frosting! Lets get to it shall we…
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Nutella Cupcakes
makes approx 14
 
1 1/2 cups cake flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
2 eggs
1 stick + 2 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup Nutella or other chocolate hazelnut spread
Oven at 350 degrees.
In a small bowl combine the flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder. And side note, if your 3 year old is doing the mixing, remind them to try to keep everything in the bowl. **SMILES**
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In a large bowl, using an electric hand mixer cream the sugar and butter. Mix until light and fluffy. Add the Nutella and mix until well combined. Next mix in one egg at a time until combined.
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In a measuring cup mix the milk and vanilla. To the large bowl, with the mixer on low, add in half the dry mix, combine. Add half the milk mix, combine. Add the remainder of the dry mix and finally the remainder of the milk. Mix well until the batter is smooth and creamy and a light chocolate color.
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Place liners in cupcake pan and spray with non stick butter spray. Fill the liners 3/4 of the way up. Bake for approx 15 minutes. To check doneness insert a toothpick, you want it to come out with a little bit of the cake on it, not completely clean! It will continue to cook slightly after you remove it. If you over bake them they will become dry so be sure to check them a little early as every oven cooks differently.
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Remove the cupcakes from the pan and cool on a cooling rack.
If I had more Nutella I would have smeared a thin layer over top the cupcakes once they were cooled. On top of that, pipe on the Peanut Butter Frosting (recipe below). Finish off with shaved chocolate.
Peanut Butter Frosting
source: Redbook Magazine
*I doubled the recipe to have enough to frost the cupcakes*
 
1 stick unsalted butter, room temp
1 cup natural creamy peanut butter
2 cups confectioners sugar
4 Tbsp milk
In a large bowl, using an electric hand mixer, cream the butter and peanut butter until well combined. Add confectioners sugar until well combined. Finally add the milk until well combined. The frosting should be creamy, smooth and light in color.
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HAPPY EATS!!!!
*the cupcake recipe is my original recipe*