Tuesday Mundane Stuff.

 Hi Everyone!

Once a month, and not on the same day of the month, I meet up with my neighbors for coffee time. We take turns hosting. There is usually 4 of us but one of the ladies got called into work. 

Kay, who is 85, is pushing her hair back and the other lovely lady is Elke. We've been meeting like this since before covid. 

This month I brought big filled cupcakes and Elke brought her coffee pot and some bite size apple streusel. We always have a grand time.

I brought huge, filled cupcakes.  

I say if I was going to enter these into an ugly cupcake competition I would win!

But there is a reason for it. I don't have any large cupcake baking liners. So I used coffee filters. 

I made a basic white cake recipe.  

After the cake mix is filled I cut the excess filters off. Normally when I make cupcakes I bake them at 425°F for 10 minutes. This makes a large muffin top. However, I must have had too much cake mix in the pan because they puffed up all crooked and busted out the side. (After the 10 minutes reduce oven heat to 350°F and bake another 10 minutes or so.)

Not pretty at all. 

Next carefully remove the paper. I also cut off the the cake that was bulging out.

Allow these to cool completely. 

You can fill cake with just about anything. I had some cool whip and some green pistachio pudding mix. I stirred those together and placed in the fridg.  

Once cooled cut a circle out of the middle of the cake. 

Do not cut to the very bottom. 

This is my nice green filling.

Too much filling

way too much. I spooned out some of the filling.

 Next cut the end off of the cake part you removed so you just have a top.

Put it in place. I did mash it down even with the cake.
I had white frosting that I added the rest of the dry pudding mix and the scooped out filling.  These were difficult to frost evening, or nicely. I topped them with colorful candy bits and then put them into the frig to keep the filling firm.

They may not be pretty but the filling set up nicely.

 and they are OMG good!

 

I took some of the cupcakes to my other neighbor. We would never eat all of these.

 

Wishing you a happy Tuesday.

Nicole