Double Trouble: Cupcakes at Callie's

I'm back! Sorry it's been so long. There's no excuse, really. Just laziness. But lets hop-to!

These are some cupcakes that I made for my office for our Halloween party. Since I made them over at Callie's that means we had to make more than one batch of cupcakes. That's how we roll.

I made Carmel Apple Cupcakes

and Callie made Boston Banana Cream Pie Cupcakes.

I have to admit, I kind of took the easy way out with these. The base for the cupcakes and the icing are both from a box (gasp!!! choke, falloverdead!!) I know, I'm not proud of it. However, they were still fun to make and they were still pretty yummy. Callie stayed true blue and made everything from scratch.

I added some reduced apple sauce to a box-mix spice cake batter for the cake, and added caramel to some store bought butter cream icing. In the end there wasn't as much apple flavor as I would have liked but it definitely tasted like a Fall cupcake.

Callies were super delicious. It started off with just a simple vanilla cupcake, but got pretty complicated from there. There was tempering involved which included a bit of unintentional scrambled eggs...but try, try again.

Both of our cupcakes were filled with goodness. Callie's had banana cream in the middle, and mine had dulce de leche. Callie like to cut little cones in to her filled cupcakes, put the cream in an then put the "top" back on. I like to stick my pinky in to each cupcake. I obviously was the lazier of the two of us that night.

I used some new sprinkles for my cupcakes and they are officially my favorite to use. They add a little bit of a crunch but aren't super hard like some sprinkles. And they're so PRETTY! They make any cupcake look super fancy and sophisticated. It's like the equivalent of putting on fancy fur coat -- you're immediately fancified. I realize that's not a word, spell checker. Thankyouverymuch.