Happy Birthday!!
We were going for a pub crawl to celebrate Hubby’s college roommate’s birthday. I offered to bring cupcakes. He loves coffee flavored things, so I had quite a few options when I flipped through Crazy about Cupcakes. I decided on the Carmel Mocha cupcakes.
As usual, when I start baking, I get really excited and tend to bake way too much. Since I wanted to make the Carmel Mocha cupcakes “full-dairy” for the birthday boy, I wanted to make some cupcakes that I would be able to eat. I decided to use some strawberry preserves that we had paired with French Vanilla cupcakes. When I make two batches, I tend to make one from scratch and one from a box mix.
Everyone said the Carmel Mocha cupcakes were great, and I loved the strawberry filled cupcakes. Overall it was a baking success!
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Browned butter is amazing, especially in cookies. Sounds like another recipe I need to try soon!
beantownbaker — May 16th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm
You’re definitely going to want to make these after you see what I did with them in a post coming up on Monday 😉
Yeah, browned butter just makes everything taste that much better. I may overuse it just a little bit in my cooking though!
beantownbaker — May 16th, 2013 @ 8:41 am
No such thing as overusing browned butter.
i can only imagine how this totally kicks up a snickerdoodle. <3 browned butter!
Browned butter and cinnamon! Can’t wait to try it!
Between the browning butter and the fresh scent of baked cookies, your kitchen must have smelled marvelous.
Oh my! These look delightful 🙂 I love browned butter too!