200 and counting

I was baking and baking and baking and loving every moment of it! For a friend's 40th Birthday Bash I made over 200 cupcakes (48 regular size, the rest the little minis).

The regular size (and kid friendly cupcakes) were chocolate with coco malt butter cream frosting, as well as vanilla with vanilla frosting, see:





The more adult cupcakes were the minis and these came in three varieties:

Vanilla cupcake with rum and macadamia nuts with a toasted coconut vanilla butter cream frosting. These were interesting as the rum is very light and created very puffy cupcakes that were much lighter in texture than the others.



Kahlua chocolate cupcake with a coco malt butter cream frosting. Rich, moist, and quite tasty.



Mai Tai (surprisingly enough no booze in these?! I was going to add rum to the frosting, but ran out) - strawberry, pineapple and coconut cupcake with a vanilla butter cream frosting. These were soooooooooooooooooo moist due to the pineapple/pineapple juice. I'm not a huge pineapple or coconut fan, but these were fantastic! Plus the pretty pink color is always fun.



What I discovered during this baking extravaganza is: I need a bigger kitchen, more cooling racks, and more cupcake carriers.