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Mudslide Cupcakes with Baileys Frosting

Stef — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:43:20 +0000

Make a batch of these delicious Mudslide Cupcakes with Baileys Frosting for a sweet treat that looks as good as it tastes!

This recipe features both a mudslide cake and delicious frosting inspired by the classic mudslide cocktail.

These mudslide cupcakes with Baileys frosting combine coffee and cream flavors for a decadent dessert that’s a guaranteed hit wherever you serve it!

Why You’ll Love Baileys Cupcakes

With an irresistible combination of Baileys Irish cream liqueur and coffee flavored Kahlua, these deliciously decadent cupcakes are topped with a Baileys frosting that emphasizes all of those mudslide cocktail flavors.

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Boozy Margarita Cupcakes

Stef — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:47:00 +0000

Margarita Cupcakes, like margaritas themselves, go down smooth. They leave you with just a small tickle in your mouth from the coarse salt and sugar sprinkled on top.

They won’t get you drunk, but these boozy cupcakes burst with flavor thanks to homemade tequila lime frosting.

This margarita cupcake recipe features a tequila lime buttercream for the ultimate margarita flavor.

Why You’ll Love these Boozy Cupcakes

Readers, friends, and family alike adore these Margarita Cupcakes! I’ve made them for friends’ weddings and some of my friends have started making them themselves if I don’t make them often enough.

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Piña Colada Cupcakes

Stef — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:50:00 +0000

Piña Colada Cupcakes are perfect cupcake versions of the drink – complete with coconut, pineapple, and rum. If you love piña coladas, these cocktail cupcakes are for you!

These boozy cupcakes aren’t just moist; their insides are almost wet due to the juicy pineapple bites scattered throughout the cake. They are so close to the piña colada drink that eating them can make you feel like you are taking a mini tropical getaway.

These tasty pineapple cupcakes come complete with a boozy cream cheese frosting. Perfect for the summer time, you’ll love these easy cocktail cupcakes!

How to Make Piña Colada Cupcakes

To give these cupcakes their signature flavor, you’ll start with mixing the liquid ingredients together. The important ones are the rum, coconut milk, and pineapple juice.
You can use any rum that you like, and there is no need to go out and buy anything special. But, if you happen to have Malibu coconut rum [paid link] or pineapple rum on hand, I would highly recommend those flavors.
- Tip: Don’t buy pineapple juice for this recipe. You’ll need crushed pineapple later in the recipe, so buy a can of crushed pineapple in juice and use the juice from the can.

Using coconut milk in the batter of these pineapple cupcakes gives them a distinct piña colada flavor.

You will next alternately add the liquid mixture and dry ingredients to butter, sugar, and eggs. If you are new to prepping the basic cupcake ingredients, be sure to read my post on how to make cupcakes to get you started.

The process of making these pineapple cupcakes is just like making most other cupcake recipes. Once you get the basics down, you can make a wide variety of desserts just like these boozy cupcakes!

Lastly, the pineapple cupcakes get even more flavor by folding in desiccated coconut (also known as baker’s coconut) and crushed pineapple.

Adding crushed pineapple ensures that these cocktail cupcakes are bursting with fresh flavor and have a tender, moist interior.

Fill the cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for about 25 minutes.
Note that pineapple cupcakes like this don’t dome. They aren’t a light and fluffy cupcake that rise a lot. Rather, they are more moist and dense and packed with flavor!

Frosting for Piña Colada Cupcakes

You can’t go wrong with basic Cream Cheese Frosting. Everyone loves it!
But, like I do with my Margarita Cupcakes, I like to put the flavor of the drink in the cupcake frosting. So, I love adding a splash of Malibu rum to the frosting to create a coconut buttercream instead of using vanilla extract. You can also use coconut extract to accentuate the coconut flavor.
Top the cupcakes with cocktail cherries (also called Maraschino cherries), cocktail umbrellas [paid link], and paper straws for the perfect presentation. Another way to decorate is to press some sweetened shredded coconut or toasted coconut flakes into the frosting.

Piña colada cocktail cupcakes are your new favorite summer dessert. Pair these pineapple cupcakes with a sweet and refreshing beverage and enjoy!

FAQs

Can you make these without alcohol?

If you don’t want any alcohol in these cupcakes, replace the rum with more pineapple juice and optionally use a teaspoon of rum extract. You can use rum extract in the frosting or just stick with a basic cream cheese frosting – leaving off the rum flavor entirely.

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Coffee Cupcakes

Stef — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:38:00 +0000

These coffee cupcakes have an intense coffee flavor and toasted marshmallow meringue frosting tops them off. The bold coffee flavor in these cupcakes is from the use of hot brewed coffee in the recipe – one of my favorite ways to make coffee desserts!

This post was sponsored by Hamilton Beach. The recipe and opinions are all mine.

Most coffee cupcakes are made to be eaten while drinking coffee and they don’t actually taste like coffee themselves. That is not the case here! The coffee flavor is so bold that I feel like I’ve had a cup of coffee after eating a single cupcake.

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Hurricane Rum Balls Are a Must at Your Mardi Gras Party

Stef — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:21:33 +0000

These hurricane rum balls are not like the rum balls that you find on Grandma’s Christmas dessert spread. They are meant to be taken with you on a Mardi Gras float, brought to a Mardi Gras parade, or served alongside King Cake at a Mardi Gras party. These hurricane rum balls pack a serious rum punch and are decidedly NOT kid friendly.

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Homemade Margarita Chex Mix – An Easy and Wildly Addictive Last-Minute Party Snack

Stef — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:20:14 +0000

Five minutes is all it takes to make this homemade margarita Chex Mix – and that’s being generous; you could probably do it in three. When you’re done, you’ll have a simple party snack with all of the elements of snacking success: sweet, salty, tangy, and crunchy. Since I am always baking cupcakes, I sometimes forget that a snack doesn’t have to take ten minutes of prep time and twenty minutes in the oven to be a party favorite. This homemade margarita Chex Mix is right up there with my sweet and salty roasted chickpeas in my quick, easy, amazing, please-don’t-let-me-forget-this recipe repertoire.

Homemade Margarita Chex Mix Recipe

You can find a few other recipes for margarita Chex Mix online. Where mine differs is that I did not use margarita mix as a key ingredient – I just didn’t find the need for it. As you’ll see below, I flavored mine with tequila, lime juice, and powdered sugar (you can add salt if you are a salted-rim kind of person).

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Homemade Jelly Beans – You Pick the Flavor

Stef — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Once I conquered homemade Lucky Charms (a task that was so arduous I will never repeat it), I needed another challenge. I set my sights on homemade jelly beans. While homemade jelly beans are time-consuming to make, I learned that the process isn’t that difficult. I would make homemade jelly beans again and I would encourage you to try preparing them, too.

Seriously, you can do this.

When you create homemade jelly beans, you get the joy of choosing the flavor and color you’d like – any drink you fancy can be turned into a jelly bean flavor. Use juice to flavor jelly beans for a kid’s party, but don’t forget the adults. Grownup flavors made using your favorite cocktails allow you to get really creative. The homemade jelly beans shown above are margarita jelly beans. Serve the margarita jelly beans straight up or use them to top margarita cupcakes. Jello shots are so 2011; homemade jelly beans are where it’s at!

How Do Homemade Jelly Beans Compare to Store-Bought Jelly Beans?

These homemade jelly beans are close to store-bought jelly beans, but not quite the same.

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Mudslide Cupcakes with Baileys Irish Cream Whipped Cream

Stef — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:22:00 +0000

The expression “Don’t judge a book by its cover” should never apply to cupcakes. While these mudslide cupcakes are tasty, their cover (a sweet Baileys Irish Cream whipped cream) is the exceptional part. In fact, several tasters said that they would have been happy to eat a big bowl of the whipped cream sans cupcake.

You’ll see in the video in this post (if you are the video watching type) that my 3rd wedding couple, Bride and Groom 3.0, found the mudslide cupcakes to be a bit dry. I say that if you have the cupcakes with a big bite of the Baileys whipped cream and perhaps a sip of coffee with some more of the whipped cream on top, you’ve got yourself a moist and memorable morning treat.

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Pomegranate Mojito Cupcakes

Stef — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000

“It did a happy dance in my mouth!” said my mother-in-law after tasting my pomegranate mojito cupcakes. I couldn’t have said it better myself. But what kind of dance? I’d say a Lindy Hop. The sweetness of PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur combined with the tangy sourness of mint*, rum, and lime reminds me of a high energy couple bouncing around the dance floor, occasionally doing flips and throws to the thrill of the crowd (perhaps I have an overactive imagination).

Cooking With PAMA

I made these pomegranate mojito cupcakes as an entry into the Cooking with PAMA Contest. If I win When I win, I get to go to the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen! I wanted to wait until I had a cupcake that I really thought could win before entering – this pomegranate mojito cupcake is it!

Update: I didn’t win. But, it was sure fun trying!

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