Jelly Bean Cupcakes
March 14, 2008
One of my boys’ sweet, dear friends turned 3 today, so I made cupcakes to celebrate at our playdate. The birthday boy is a huge fan of jelly beans and the color blue, hence my kid-centric choice of treats!
I had found instructions online for suspending jelly beans inside the cupcake batter without having them fall to the bottom. (You bake them for a few minutes, insert the jelly beans, and then finish cooking.) But the white cake mix I used was so dense (meringue-like, really, due to the three egg whites rather than whole eggs added to the mix) that I just plopped a few small jelly beans into each muffin cup after I added the batter (pushing them down a bit) and then baked them for the full amount of time.
They turned out a lot less pretty than I expected, honestly. I anticipated a neat, colorful core of candy inside each cupcake, but I wound up with randomly-distributed, somewhat garish lumps of sugar. Regardless, I heard no complaints from our frosting-encrusted kids.
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merrie | March 15, 2008 at 6:28 am
D said it was his favorite part of the day! A million thank yous!!!!!!
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Jodi | March 15, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Garish lumps of sugar sounds good to me!!
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Jodi | March 15, 2008 at 7:11 pm
As I am reading this, my kids are very interested in this photo!
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