Jack-O-Lanterns

Isn't it amazing that it's already the end of October??? Seriously though. Crazy! For Halloween, I decided to make... CUPCAKES :) I never really got into the whole carving pumpkins/costumes and whatnot, but I tried to be a little festive with pumpkin cupcakes. They don't taste like pumpkin because I thought that was more for Thanksgiving, but they almost look like them:

And Marcus obviously had some fun decorating the pumpkins too

We have Jack-o-lantern cupcakes!!! Can you guess which one is my favorite???

Do you spy Jack the Pumpkin King? the pumpkin that's a basketball for Halloween? a pig? Ron Weasley? Ha.

Here's my favorite... Obviously :)

And Marcus' favorite. "He says RAWR!!!"

Root Beer Floats

Now here was an entirely new challenge... Soda in a cupcake. Seriously.

They turned out better than I thought. But I would've used more root beer :)

The frosting was an adventure too. I had to whip it up on the stove, with more root beer of course.
But it gave the little guys a very smooth look. :)

They were yummy. Very, very sweet.

Fresh Fruit

I made these cupcakes two weeks ago, and they were pretty good. Not my best, but you could taste the lemon and blueberry-- you can definitely see the blueberry too. I had never baked with fresh fruit before, so that was an adventure. Both the batter and frosting did something funny (which more affected texture than taste), and I blame my work schedule. It pushed me to go too fast in order to get to work on time :)

Emma

I had to include this...

Emma really likes chocolate cupcakes :)