A lot of people ask me what I do with all the cupcakes that I make.

Usually I make small batches. I’ve learned to photograph small batches and make them appear as larger batches. Sometimes I make full batches and I give the extras to my neighbours or my relatives or my friends. Sometimes I have large parties and I bake tons of goodies in advance, and bring them out of the freezer so I can give them to my guests.

And sometimes I just feel like experimenting, so I make a full batch of batter, separate it into a few bowls and mix in separate flavours.

I could have been more adventurous today. I didnt feel like it. I wanted to make something special for my husband, and he’s been hinting around that he’d like me to make him some rootbeer cupcakes with the rootbeer extract my mom just gave me.

I didnt want to make a full batch of them, just incase they were gross (which they werent, oddly enough) so I poured a third of the batter into a bowl and used that for the rootbeer cupcakes.

I poured another third into another bowl and used that to neverbashfulwithbutter.comhttp://www.neverbashfulwithbutter.commake banana lime cupcakes. More banana than lime, but still slightly citrusy.

With the remaining third, I added in a little marachino cherry juice and some cherry extract. Pretty good I must say.

So, using one simple batch of “cake” batter (that I made using my favourite french vanilla cake recipe) I omitted the vanilla and added the flavouring at the last minute just before pouring the batter into the papers.

Heres what I came up with-

Banana lime cupcake.

I added in some mashed bananas and a little banana extract. Also, I sprinkled some lime jello powder into the batter as well as on the icing.

Cherry cupcakes!

This was by far my favourite. The marachino cherry juice made this cake very moist, and I only added a tiny bit of the cherry extract so it wouldnt taste too WILD CHERRY to me. I hate WILD CHERRY flavour.

Rootbeer Float cupcakes.

Pretty strange. I’ve only thought about making rootbeer cupcakes, never actually having made them. I’ve gotta say, they’re surprisingly good. The rootbeer extract is dark enough that the colour they ended up is from the flavouring alone, no added food colouring. They were a bit dry, but still good. The vanilla icing added that little bit of “Float” to it.

Here’s the cherry cupcake trying to seduce you..

The cool thing is, even though I made a full batch, I ended up with only about 4 cupcakes in each flavour. One for me, one for my husband and two for the freezer for later. It works out perfectly.

-A.

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