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Day 6 – Red Hot Love Cake {12 Days of #ValentinesDesserts}

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Are you guys loving these Valentine’s Day Desserts or what?!?! Soooo, today is day #6 of our 12 Days of Valentine’s Day Desserts. If you’ve missed Days 1 – Day 5, no worries. You can find them all below at the bottom of this post!

Today’s recipe is from Stefanie at Making of a Mom! Click HERE to get the full recipe for this Red Hot Love Cake. NOM!! For more of our 12 Days of V-Day Desserts, check out the links below. You won’t be sorry!! We’ll be back tomorrow with another delicious and sweet dessert!



Day 4 – Sundrop Cake (12 Days of #ValentinesDesserts)

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We’re moving along in our 12 Days of Valentine’s Day Desserts! If you’ve missed any of the previous days’ posts – no worries. You can find them all at the bottom of this post. We don’t want you to miss a thing!

Today is day #4  and it’s a yummy one! This Sundrop Cake is loaded with flavor and is perfect to brighten up a dreary cold wintery day! It’s super moist and I’m sure by the name of the cake, that you can tell what the secret ingredient is. Hint hint! There are actually a couple of secret ingredients. Click here to visit Dina at MyUnentitled Life and snag the recipe!

For more of our 12 Days of V-Day Desserts, check out the links below. You won’t be sorry!! We’ll be back tomorrow with another delicious and sweet dessert!



Icebox Coconut Cake (12 Days of Christmas Desserts)

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We’re back again today with another yummy treat for our 12 Days of Christmas Desserts! If you’ve missed the previous days, you can still find them at the bottom of this post! You don’t have to miss a thing!

Looking for an especially tasty cake recipe? One that is super easy but tastes like you were in the kitchen all day? Just click over and check out this Icebox Coconut Cake recipe from Dina at My Unentitled Life and make it for yourself. It’s so simple and so good! It’s sure to impress your friends and family.

Don’t forget to check all the earlier Christmas recipes we’ve posted below!

Simple Garden Carrot Cupcakes – Chocolate Pudding Filled

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dirt and carrot cupcakes

I’m jumping for joy because we’re on Spring break this week. Although, we had snow yesterday…boo! It’s cold today, but I just know that warmer weather is around the corner. Or at least – it better be! Or else, Mother Nature is fired!!!

To celebrate spring, here are some super simple and fun Carrot Cupcakes! Well, more like carrot garden cupcakes….topped with yummy Oreo dirt and filled with yummy chocolate pudding!

We totally have Spring and Easter on our minds. I just posted these fun Easter Peeps S’Mores the other day! They were a big hit! Okay, now on to this glorious cupcake recipe…the printable is down towards the bottom if you want to print it out and put in your recipe box!

Garden Carrot Cupcakes
(Yield 24 cupcakes)

 

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INGREDIENTS
CAKE:
1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
3 Eggs
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil

PUDDING:
1 box Instant Chocolate Pudding
2 cups Milk

ICING:
1 cup Butter softened
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
5 cup Powdered Sugar
4 tbsp Milk

DECORATIONS:
24 Oreos (or 1 bage Mini Oreos) crushed
72 Orange Mike & Ikes
1 package Edible Easter Grass

DIRECTIONS
Make cupcakes according to box directions.
Make Pudding according to box directions.
Cut a small square in the top of each cupcake and remove a chunk from the middle of the cupcake.
Place pudding in zippered bag and clip corner to pipe.

dirt and carrot cupcakes
Pipe pudding into the middle of each cupcake.
Place the top of the “plug” back on each hole.
Cream butter and cocoa together until smooth.
Add in powdered sugar.
Add milk in slowly until frosting reaches right consistency.
Frost each cupcake.
Dust frosting with crushed Oreos.
Cut easter grass into 1″ lengths (these are the grees at the end of the carrots).

dirt and carrot cupcakes
Take a toothpick or skewer and make a hole in the end of each piece of candy and insert some of the greens in each.
Stick several carrots down into the top of each cupcake.
Enjoy!!!

Simple Garden Carrot Cupcakes – Pudding Filled
Author: Jenni
Ingredients
  • CAKE:
  • 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
  • PUDDING:
  • 1 box Instant Chocolate Pudding
  • 2 cups Milk
  • ICING:
  • 1 cup Butter softened
  • 1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
  • 5 cup Powdered Sugar
  • 4 tbsp Milk
  • DECORATIONS:
  • 24 Oreos (or 1 bage MIni Oreos) crushed
  • 72 Orange Mike & Ikes
  • 1 package Edible Easter Grass
Instructions
  1. DIRECTIONS
  2. Make cupcakes according to box directions.
  3. Make Pudding according to box directions.
  4. Cut a small square in the top of each cupcake and remove a chunk from the middle of the cupcake.
  5. Place pudding in zippered bag and clip corner to pipe.
  6. Pipe pudding into the middle of each cupcake.
  7. Place the top of the “plug” back on each hole.
  8. Cream butter and cocoa together until smooth.
  9. Add in powdered sugar.
  10. Add milk in slowly until frosting reaches right consistency.
  11. Frost each cupcake.
  12. Dust frosting with crushed Oreos.
  13. Cut easter grass into 1″ lengths (these are the grees at the end of the carrots).
  14. Take a toothpick or skewer and make a hole in the end of each piece of candy and insert som eof the greens in each.
  15. Stick several carrots down into the top of each cupcake.
  16. Enjoy!!!

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