Late Again! Sorry, Cupcakes

Oh no! I'm sorry again, I'm late. I completely lost track of the days and it's already Monday! Well I made these cupcakes last week, on Friday so at least I remembered to make them! I just haven't posted anything on them yet because I hadn't uploaded the photos. Well I guess that's what I am going to do right now...

I guess while I do that I will start telling you about the cupcakes. I had two choices of cupcakes that I wanted to make: Bananas Foster Cupcakes and Butterfinger Blizzard Cupcakes. I couldn't decide which so I asked my mom and had her decide. She definitely picked one with a lot of work! The Bananas Foster Cupcakes. The reason these cupcakes had so much work is because they had four parts: French Pastry Cream, Caramel Sauce, Buttercream Frosting, and the Banana Cupcakes.

Making the French Pastry Cream was the hardest out of all of the parts for sure. It took us three tries to get it half-way ok, but it was still not thick enough. It still tasted good though! The first two creams curdled, but the final didn't! The Caramel Sauce was a lot easier to make, since I've made several caramels before. It was a lot of fun and it turned out great! Though we had to cook it longer after I finished because the alcohol didn't cook out completely. After we finished both of those parts, they were put into the fridge to cool down:

Then it was time to make the frosting! The frosting was a lot of fun to make, I hadn't made a buttercream frosting before and I never realized just how much butter is really in it! The Buttercream Frosting that I made probably was enough to frost 18 or so cupcakes and it used a whole pound of butter! I do love butter though so I thought it tasted fantastic!

The cupcakes were pretty easy, though it was done in parts as well. One part butter, sugar, and eggs; the second the flour mixture; and the third the banana mixture:

Once they were all added together, the mixture was ready to be put into the oven and baked!

Next came the filling with the mixture of the French Pastry Cream and Caramel Sauce:




Frosting the cupcakes was my favorite part! I love swirling the frosting on and it looks so good afterwards.

After they were frosted, the remaining caramel sauce was warmed up and drizzled on the top to make the delicious Bananas Foster Cupcake: