Icecream Cupcakes!

Hello!Sorry I have no picture for because I am awful food blogger and always forget to take pictures before I eat the food.
I needed treats for something today so I made cupcakes. It was requested that I make some easy stuff that is just no fun to make. So I ignored that request and tried something new. After so long of making a recipe it gets very boring to make. I would much rather do something hard that takes some skill instead of easy cake mix bars. And really those don't even taste as good as some of the other things I make.
I hate getting into a rut while baking. I like to experiment and try new things. You can only make so many pans of bars before you want to shot yourself, and I am very close to that amount. If the bars are so easy and so good make them on your own. They really aren't that hard. Try!!!
Baking and cooking are really not as hard as some people make it out to be. Here is the trick for baking. This secret may blow your mind so be prepared. FLOW THE RECIPE!!! If you don't know what you are do or have not made the recipe before then follow it! Its really that simple. Stop complaining about how you aren't good and how you don't know how to do anything. Just shut up and read the recipe. It is really that simple. People keep telling me that I am an amazing baker (and I am not denying that I am) but really all you have to do to be a amazing as me is follow what the recipe tells you to do. Then the dish, dessert, or whatever you are making will turn just as it is suppose to.
Here is something else I figured out. Recipes don't need to be some long drawn out thing. Not every little detail needs to be explained to death. No one like beating dead horses. So please everyone out there stop being stupid. It doesn't matter if you are reading or writing the recipe stop being an idiot.
So after my rant please enjoy this simplified Orange Dream Pop Cupcake recipe. This recipe is adapted from a cupcake recipe from The Bon Appetite cookbook. It tastes like heaven because everyone knows that heaven tastes like Orange Dream Pops. So here ya go!

Orange Dream Pop Cupcakes

Ingredients

2 2/3 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 whole milk
6 large egg whites
4 tablespoons sour cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 package orange jello
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
2 cups sugar

Cream butter and sugar. Mix together dry (flour, powder, and salt). Mix together wet (milk, eggs, sour cream, extract, and jello). Alternately add dry and wet to butter and sugar.
Fill 24 lined muffin tins about 2/3 full. DO NOT FILL TO FULL! You hear me I am talking to you. Do not fill them to full because these cupcakes will go over the edges easily.
Bake at 350 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes.
Once my cupcakes cooled I took out some of the center and then put plain vanilla pudding in them. And then I frosted them with my normal frosting recipe (click here to see my recipe Frosting).

They tasted amazing and everyone loved them. So try them but don't be stupid. Stay fat and happy my friends!
Nancy

Boredom=Cream Puffs

Hello!
I was bored today. Wow, that is weird to say. I haven't been bored since... since.. I really don't remember. I have been just a little busy. Between speech, work, and school I haven't had much time to blog about the food I make. (But somehow I have had time to bake a lot just not to blog. :)) So back to me being bored. Because I was bored I made Cream Puffs!
I tired these out once before in my independent study at school, but I did not put whipped cream in those. I put pudding in the ones I made at school so they turned out more like tiny eclairs, but they were still good. Today I whipped up some heavy cream and put that in the middle.
They are amazing. So much better than the frozen variety available at supper markets. The cream squishes out the side when you bite into them. You will love these. They seem complex but they are actually really simple.
First you need to make some Pate a Choux. I used Alton Brown's recipe. I trust any recipe by him and this one was especially good and easy.

Sweet or Savory Pate a Choux
Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown and Food Network

Ingredients
1 cup water
3/4 stick butter (6 tablespoons)
1 Tablespoon sugar plus 1/8 teaspoon salt (for sweet)
1 teaspoon salt (for savory)
5 3/4 ounces flour
1 cup eggs, about 4 large eggs and 2 egg whites

Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degree F.
Boil water, butter, and salt or sugar. Add flour and remove from heat. Work mixture together and return to heat. Continue working the mixture until all flour is incorporated and dough forms a ball. Transfer mixture into bowl of a stand miser and let cool for 3 to 4 minutes. With mixer on stir or lowest speed add eggs, 1 at a time, making sure the first egg is completely incorporated before continuing. Once all of the eggs have been added and the mixture is smooth put dough into a pipping bag with round tip. Pip immediately into golf-ball sized shapes, 2 inches apart onto parchment paper lined sheet pans. Cook for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 350 degrees F and bake for 10 more minutes or until golden brown. Once they are removed from the oven pierce with a paring knife immediately to release steam.

Once your Pate a Choux is done baking let them cool. While they are cooling whip up some cream. I added a little sugar and vanilla to add a little flavor.
Put the whipped cream into a pippin bag with any type of tip on it. If the outer shell is cooled then fill them with the cream. After that ENJOY!
They are really easy to make and they taste fantastic. So please make these and enjoy them.
Here are a few pictures (that I am very proud of) of my cream puffs. I drizzles them with a little chocoalte syrup.

Enjoy!
Nancy