Recipe: Chocolate Cupcake with Lava Center

Today my daughter and I took some time from our day to make lava cupcakes or as Emmy would like to say Love Cakes. She loves the gooey center and so does her father. This is a really quick thing to bake takes less than twenty minutes for everything and its simple for a one year old to help with!

Kimmy & Emmy's Love Cakes

aka Chocolate Cupcake with Lava Center

Chocolate Cupcake with Lava Center

• 1 Cup of Betty Crocker 
• 1 Large Egg
• 1/2 Cup of Water
• 1/8  Cup of Vegetable oil
• 1/4 Cup of Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
• 6 Hershey Milk Chocolate Kisses 

1. Combine cake mix, one egg, water and oil in a large mixing bowl. Be warned this batter already has chocolate chips in it from the mix so there will be lumps. I let my daughter mix with a hand whisk and scrape the edges for her.
2. Next, give kid some batter to calm them down because they will get upset they do not have the whisk anymore.  I do not give my daughter large amounts i literally stick the back of her baby spoon into the batter. Please do not freak out about salmonella. 
3. Spray cupcake pan with non stick cooking spray if you're not using cupcake wrappers. 
4. Pour batter 3/4 of the way in the cupcake tins.
5. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about six minutes. 
6. Take semi cooked cupcakes out and place one Hershey kiss in the center. 
7. Sprinkle about 3 - 5 semi sweet chocolate chip on the Hershey.
8. Put cupcakes back into the oven for three more minutes. 
9. Take out cupcakes to cool.  
10. ENJOY!

 

A glass of milk goes perfect with this delicious treat.

Recipe: Zeppoles

July 4 2013

 So while everyone is out having a blast and enjoying fireworks[which I despise! They scare me and are way too loud for my eardrums]. I decided to try a new treat and make homemade zeppoles. I was terrified to make them but I did it and it was AWESOME!

I got the recipes off of wordpress and its so simple anyone can make it and just yummy!

 Homemade Zeppole Recipe from WordPress 

I did make some substitute in here :) Guys Try it 

Homemade Zeppole: Quick and Easy Italian Doughnuts Recipe

• 1 stick room temperature butter [1/2 cup]
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 3 eggs [2 large eggs]
• 1 egg yolk [didnt use]
• oil for frying

1. Combine first four ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a rolling boil. Boil it for 10 seconds then take off from the heat.
2. Stir the flour quickly and mix until it forms a dough. Bring the pan back on the heat for additional two minutes.
3. Beat in the eggs and egg yolk one at a time and stir until incorporated. Continue beating for five minutes until the dough becomes glossy and thick. Keep in the fridge for 15 minutes.
4. Get a saucepan on medium heat and fill it with oil for deep frying. Drop spoonfuls of the Zeppole batter and fry until golden and puffed. Don’t overcrowd the pan.
5. Transfer the cooked Zeppole on paper towels to drain then dunk them in the cinnamon sugar while still hot. Enjoy

Powdered Sugar

• 1/4 Cup of Granulated Sugar  

1. Pulse the sugar till it reaches a powdered state!