Hey, Cupcake!

Cupcake card made with pleated crepe paper streamer on the base. Click on for detailed view.


One of my hostesses in Alaska gave me this fuel box from the 1950's. We used these in the early days of homesteading, for the upper cabinets. Women would take calico flour sacking and make curtains for them. Thanks to Carol for this wonderful gift! I am going to make a cupboard with it, but for now, it makes a nice display box for my cupcakes.











These look yummy but they are only made of heavy art papers. Some of the tops are cut out of glitter paper (available at Wal-Mart in a stack). Others are hole-punched in glitter paper, and others are swirled with polymark or scribbles paint and glitter glue. The lower two cards are tags on which are placed pieces of real cupcake liners. I've included patterns so you can mix and match as you like. B e sure to always glue the lower part before adding the upper part, because it overhangs a little.

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Right-click on the drawing, below and then "print" for your patterns. Cut them out on card stock and trace around them to make cards, tags and stand up paper cupcakes.

Remember when husbands called their wives "Cupcake?" I had a chuckle at a You-Tube video series with Cary Grant, called "The Dream Wife. " There were 5 or 6 episodes about a man who wanted a wife to come home to, who would cook meals and look after the children. He was engaged to a woman who was absorbed in her career. When he spoke to her about this, she said, "Don't you remember that women have been liberated? Haven't you ever heard of Susan B. Anthony?" He gave her startled look and then said, "Is she a good cook?" Later on he decides he does not want to marry this career woman and finds a foreign girl who has old fashioned ideas, but her father was not in favor of the match. He said, "American women do not want to be mothers. They want to be fathers. I do not want my daughter to be a father!" It might be smart to view these videos before they are completely banned!

Recipe for the cupcake Muffins you see in the picture:

Cupcake Muffins

Prepare a 24-count mini-cupcake pan by putting mini cup-cake liners in it. Preheat oven to 350 F. While oven is heating, mix the batter.

Thoroughly mix these dry ingredients in a bowl:

1 and 1/2 cups unbleached flour

1 and 1/2 teaspoons non-aluminum baking powder (Rumford, or make your own)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

In another bowl, mix these liquid ingredients:

1 egg

1/4 cup honey

1/3 cup mild olive oil

3/4 cup whole milk or half-and-half (if you do not eat dairy, use water) Use more or less, for consistency.

Add the dry mix to the liquids and mix well, until batter is smooth.

With small spoon, fill cupcake liners about three-fourths full. There will be enough batter for half a pan more, depending on how full you fill the liners.

For topping, just mix a little cream cheese with honey, or dust with cinnamon.