❤Creme brûlée meets Cupcake a love story❤

     So after thinking of ideas to bake and blog about, it came to me... today is national creme brûlée day! I thought... hey,  I love creme brûlée and I love cupcakes!  Even more so after our recent BFF trip to San Francisco for our Cupcake Crawl- which we promise to do more of and report back to you with our sampling of various bakeries and sweets from the Bay Area. We treated ourselves to some creme brûlée cupcakes from Bristol Farms and I knew I wanted to try to duplicate them.  Regrettably we didn't take pics but let me deconstruct those bad boys for you, it was a simple moist white cake (my taste buds were screaming boxed, oh well ) The saving grace of the cupcake, the topping! It was adorned with a delicious creme brûlée and it was amaaazzing.  I knew I had to try my hand at Creme brûlée cupcakes again.  I  attempted these about a year ago but with a chocolate cupcake and yes they were freakin good but I wanted to try a new more classic take.  So off I went to whip these babies up.

Start with your favorite vanilla or caramel cupcake recipe or box cake bake & cool.

Next whip up your favorite creme brûlée recipe I used Alton Browns.

Fill large pastry bag fitted with large round tip with buttercream(recipe follows)and frost. Sprinkle cupcakes with sugar and using a kitchen torch caramelize sugar.

Brown Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream

1 cup light brown sugar

4 egg whites

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature

Put sugar, egg whites and salt into the top of a double boiler over a pan of simmering water. Whisking constantly, cook until sugar has dissolved and mixture is warm. Pour heated egg whites into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat egg white mixture on high speed until it forms stiff peaks. Continue beating until fluffy and cooled, about 7 minutes total. Switch to the paddle attachment. With mixer on medium-low, add butter two tablespoons at a time, beating well after each addition. Increase speed to medium-high continue beating until frosting appears thick, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low and continue beating 1 minute to reduce air bubbles.

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birthdays, were the worst best days

My made my own damn birthday cake. :)

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birthdays, were the worst best days

Pink lemonade themed 1st birthday!  Pink lemonade cupcakes and smash cake.

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I float, everybody around me is busy drowning

Whipped up these Root Beer Float cupcakes for Father's day.

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churro why not

Churro flavored cupcake with dulce de leche drizzle

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birthdays, were the worst best days

Happy Birthday Brother

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birthdays, were the worst best days

Dark chocolate salted caramel cake.

(Contact us if you'd like the ingredientsES, as Teresa Giudice would say)

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LittleMissCuppyCake

Here's a tiny sampling of what I do...

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allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is...

      Doughface Killah, that's my (Mitsy) stage  baking name.  And these are some of my confections, as you can see I play to my strenfs, the creative and thee ridiculous.  Some of these have also  made it onto Bakerella's pop stars, click the links. 

My pan dulce cake pops

My T-bone steak pops

Corndog pops

Wu-kies- Wutang shaped sugar cookies and my homemade cookie cutter

Hostess cupcake knock-offs, valentine edition

Sweet lil heart shaped sprinkle valentine cake

Dodgers foam finger pops.

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mic check 1,2, 1,2

 We're M.M FAT and we're here to bake

Cakes like ours could never be stopped

See, there's two of us and I know we're fresh

Party Rockers, non-stoppers and our names are def...

I'm kidding!  (But wait there's more, just humor me)

See, the M is Mel, the other for Mitsy

The 'F' is fresh, 'A' and 'T' tough

Behind the aprons is DJ Train (?)

Mixin' and whiskin' is the name of the game

     Whuuut? That doesn't even make sense.  Nevermind.  

Buuuut, if you're here, I thought there should be a proper intro post rather than just a bunch of coded inside jokes between my best friend/co-blogger Mallory and I. Which we might resort back into if only our boys and parents follow this blog.  Case in point, Mallory is really Melanie.  Melanie gets shit done.  Mallory wants to hang out in pajamas all day and think about stuff we should be doing. I'll refer to her accordingly.  


     She's been my best friend since freshman year and is essentially a back up harddrive of my memories.  High school is thee best time to make a lifelong friend because together you transform from awkward quinceañera (remind me to upload the picture of her in my quince court garbed up in her sharks teal) to awkward young adult to old shrew.  Yet! You still like and laugh at the same old shit- it's great.  You're probably wondering, why is this Mitsy friends with this sMelanie girl. She seems stank.  The Mitsy one obviously carries the team.  Wrong! Melanie is the only one with real cookery skillz.  She does her thing as Little Miss Cuppy Cake baking out of cowtown Salida, California.  Hit up her facebook to your left to place orders or just to talk, she doesn't have very many friends. :)   I don't even really  bake.  My shit is straight out the box everytime.  BUT I have ideas, and  implement the creative stuff- I like decorating thangs.  You see I draw and paint pictures, www.mitsyavilaovalles.com.  We're a long distance friendship so we can't always get together to bake & craft, we'd probably be unstoppable if we both lived in San Jo.


Here is some of the shit we've done together.   We even made it onto Bakerella's pop stars  with some of these cake pops. 

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