Chocolate Cake with Penuche Frosting

I made homemade chocolate cake with penuche frosting. No cheating with a box cake mix this time.

For the cake I mixed the normal cake ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa, eggs, eta) I baked it in two 9" round pans.

For the penuche frosting I mixed butter, brown sugar, milk, and powdered sugar.

Layer it together and done :-)

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Ideas

I've had quite a few people ask where I get my cupcake/cake ideas from....sometimes it's just a twisted vision I get in my head but most of the time I either google image search cupcake ideas or I have these three amazing books that I love! *highly recommend them!*

Apples and Pie

This week I made 2 different kinds of cupcakes.

First I made apple cupcakes with sour green stems and a gummy worm on top.  These cupcakes were  yellow cake mix, 2 eggs, tablespoon or two of water, and a can of apple pie filling. Its the first time I've made that combination and it was amazingly moist. I used regular canned vanilla frosting tinted pink/red and then I rolled the tops in red sparkle sprinkles. I got some short green sour licorice for the stems and stuck a regular gummy worm on top. I really liked how these turned out.

Then when I was done with that....I took the exact same cupcake flavor (apple pie filling and yellow cake mix) and made cherry and blueberry "pies".

I mixed equal parts of yellow, red, and blue food coloring which surprisingly gives you brown. Lesson learned from when I made my easter basket cake. :)

I decorated each cupcake with the brown frosting and then carefully piled on either cherry or blueberry jelly belly jelly beans ontop of each. Then I took more brown frosting and a #104 tip in my decorator and created criss cross frosting lines on each cupcake. Then I took a #195 tip and made the brown edging around the cupcake to create the "pie latice" feel. 

My frosting was a bit too soft even with adding some powdered sugar to it so my latice didn't come out as clean and neat as I would like but the cupcakes were still pretty tasty.

As usual, the best part of baking was sharing these with everyone :)