Candy Bar Cupcakes

Firstly, I apologize for a post not going up Monday, things have been pretty crazy and hectic lately. I may get into the details later on, but for now, let's talk cake, shall we? Cupcakes in specifics.

With this one recipe, you have make 12 different flavors if you want. The recipe is a basic vanilla cake, and it makes 12 cupcakes, so you can make one cupcake a different candy bar flavor, or you can do what I did. I made five flavors, reeses, snickers, mnms, kitkat, and heath bar.

The base for the recipe comes from the cupcake diaries once again, I do not want to post it on my blog out of respect for their copy-written book, as I have said before, but if you are new here, that is why. I am certain if you google "Georgetown cupcake, vanilla cupcake" you will be able to find the base recipe though. I just don't want to get myself into trouble posting it here. ;)

These candy bar cupcakes are perfect for Halloween, what says Halloween more than candy, orange icing, and orange and black sprinkles? Ok, maybe witches, ghouls, goblins, vampires, and such, but this is a nice simple cupcake that anyone can make for Halloween, as well as delicious. I also placed them in some spiffy trick 'r treat liners. They go just perfect with this  cupcake.

I started by separating the candies, for the cupcakes, and making the garnishments. After making the vanilla base, I scooped all of the batter into liners, to each individual liner is where I added the candies to each cupcake.

The batter actually made 17 cupcakes total so I started with three each of each flavor, and then did an extra reeses and an extra snickers cupcake, as those two flavors tend to be the favorite, so it only seemed fitting to make those two be the extra two flavors. 

The MnM Cupcake

The kitkat Cupcake

The Snickers Cupcake

The Heath or Toffee bar Cupcake

After Baking, the reeses baked separate by themselves, and I didn't 

get a photo.

I used just a bit of this icing orange color,

not a whole lot, and it gave the icing the perfect shade of orange.

I just used a simple american buttercream, and added a bit more 

salt then the recipe asked for, to give it the perfect

touch to cut a bit of the sweetness from the candy bars.

I absolutely love the way icing looks when it is all mixed up.

Beautiful little cloud. ^_^

I bought this nice variation of sprinkles from Michaels,

and just mixed the orange and black to go around the candy bar garnish.

If you make these, be sure to keep track of what flavor is what before you ice them!

The piece of candy bar on top is not just a garnish, but an easy way to tell what candy bar you are getting, or you could just play Russian roulette with it, if you are feeling risky enough. :) hehe

And the finished Cupcakes