Lemonade Cuppycakes

The cake batter is lemonade and the frosting is lemon butter. This frosting is super yummy if you're a fan of lemon.

Lemon Butter Frosting:

4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons milk (For extra creamy frosting, use half and half)

In large bowl, beat confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 tablespoons lemon juice and 1 teaspoon lemon zest until smooth. Beat in milk, and increase speed and continue to beat until light and fluffy.

THANK YOU!!!!

I want to thank all of you who ordered cuppycakes this past month. Because of you, Casas por Christo has seven more bags of food to deliver to needy families in Juarez. Please keep them in your prayers!

Cuppycake of the Day

Today's cuppycake is our most popular: the cookie dough. It's a yellow cake chocked full of any flavor of cookie dough you like, typically topped with the chocolate buttercream. It's super-rich and kids love it!

This particular batch is for my best friend Don. Happy Birthday!

Tools I Can't Live Without

An absolute requirement for me with baking is using high-quality products. You don't want to ruin a cupcake with cheap flavoring. This is my favorite almond extract:

This is my go-to for a fantastic chocolate buttercream:

My very favorite decorative sugar is the India Tree line. They have the most beautiful, shimmery sanding sugars around. http://www.indiatree.com/

Here they are in pink and peach:And last, but not least, you need one really devoted taste-tester to try out new things. Preferably, find one who takes their time and savors each bite. Here's mine:

What she lacks in tidiness, she more than makes up for in enthusiasm.

Peanut Butter Bliss

Today I'm making Peanut Butter Kiss Cuppycakes. These are definitely in my top three favorites of all time. The batter is butter cake and peanut butter.

This stuff as addictive as cookie dough; you could make a dessert from the uncooked batter alone. I top each off with a Hershey's Kiss.

I frost it with the most amazing, creamy peanut buttercream frosting ever and top it off with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup:

Make sure to eat this with a big glass of cold milk; yummy!

Cupcakes for a Princess

Recipe for a fabulous party:

2 Ponies

Lots of friends

1 very cool mom who happens to be a fantastic cook

More food than you see at many wedding receptions

1 adorable 3-year-old named Kate who insisted on pink cupcakes

For Kate's party, I made vanilla bean cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and vanilla bean/chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting all lovingly covered in pink shimmer sprinkles.

Cupcakes for Casas

For the month of May, all profit from any cupcakes we sell will go to support the Family Outreach Program from Casas por Cristo, a wonderful organization that builds homes for needy families in Juarez, Mexico. Casas por Cristo partners with church groups throughout North America to build homes in Juarez, Mexico for needy families. Casas has a committee of over 80 pastors in Juarez who seek out families in need of homes. A typical applicant is a family of four with a weekly income of $53 who lives in a cardboard and shipping pallet house with a dirt floor. Sadly, because of the Swine Flu, the local drug cartel in Juarez and the economy in general, volunteers have really dried up. My dear friend, Brittany Girle, works for Casas and she recently wrote this letter:

Things here are going well, despite the Swine flu and drug cartel. Satan really doesn’t want homes to be built in Juarez, and with that the need is growing. We have had to stop accepting applications from families and there are 586 families on the waiting list. We are only scheduled to build around 150 houses this year as opposed to our normal 400+, so the waiting list has gone from 6 months to a few years. This is heartbreaking for us as we are having to tell the families that they will have to continue to wait. God’s been faithful to provide opportunities for us to help in other ways though. Janette and Jason felt led to start collecting money for an outreach program and are currently filling bags with beans, rice, tortillas, and other basic necessities and taking them around to families. They are telling the families that we have not forgotten about them and neither has God. One of the hardest things that we are dealing with is that when teams cancel at the last minute, our distributor has to go to the families and take back the building materials that were already delivered for the new home to be built. In this, we aren’t just taking away 2x4’s and insulation, we are taking away their hope and a lot of times their faith in the belief that there is a God that loves them and will provide for them. The implications are far larger than any of us can grasp. So in hopes to encourage the families and let them know that we are still coming to help and haven’t forgotten about them and neither has God, we are taking these bags to each family. We are explaining that because of the problems with the drug cartel Americans are fearful to come and help and in turn our waiting list is getting longer and longer. They all seem to understand immediately why Americans are fearful and not coming and are just happy to know that we haven’t deserted them and are still going to build them a home, despite the long wait. I’m continuously encouraged by their faith and their smiles as many families told us that they are just trusting God for His timing. Some of these families said that they have been waiting 3 years for a home! I don’t understand why they haven’t given up believing or hoping, but I’m glad that they haven’t, or are trying not to. I’m encouraged to be a part of this and I continue to be baffled by life as I end a day of giving bags to these families then return home and rinse the dirt off of my feet and hands before I settle down into my “blessed” life. I have everything materially and they have nothing, and the dichotomy is killing me.please follow the link below to view the pictures related to this post. this is where the real story is; in the faces and the lives of these families.http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=90954128448&h=8bd6554fe743c4ce9c75684791d0e481&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Falbum.php%3Faid%3D2535034%26id%3D4936508%26l%3Daf452f0ce0

All I know is that I'm blessed and that if you are able to read this, you probably are too. We take much for granted in this wonderful country we live in, while there are others who truly know what suffering is about. So please, consider supporting this amazing organization. Have some cupcakes and enjoy knowing that your money went directly to support someone else in real need. Or, give directly to them at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/270087/1781115?m=6d54c0aa or their website http://www.casasporcristo.org/

One happy CuppyCake kid

The CuppyCake Prince and Princess

Scarlett and Jack delight in the Cookie Dough CuppyCakes.

CuppyCakes are made with Love!

Welcome to CuppyCake Land. It's a land of sweet delights where the streets are frosted in buttercream. Cuppycake Land specializes in cupcakes; some of our favorites include:

• Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
• Key Lime Pie
• Red Velvet
• Peanut Butter
• Lemon Curd
• Coconut
• Strawberry
• Malted Milk
• Cookies and Cream

We are not afraid to try new things! Please email me at:

jemax76@hotmail.com for more information.

CuppyCakes are $25 per 2-dozen with a 2-dozen minimum. Delivery is only $10 in the Metro Atlanta area.