"Get in the Cup-Cakes" - Garden Seeds and Honey Bees

See B. Lovely for hole in one cupcake decorating idea.

Texas Cake Cupcakes

*1 cup Water
*2 cubes of Butter

In a sauce pan put water and butter and put own medium to low heat and bring to a boil.

In bowl mix:

*2 cups Granulated Sugar
*1/4 cup Cocoa
Then add:
*2 1/2 cups Flour
*1/4 teaspoon Salt

Then add the above ingredients to the water and butter.

Beat in:

*2 eggs
*1 teaspoon Baking Soda
*1 teaspoon Vanilla
*1/2 cup Buttermilk
Pour batter into cupcake pans with cupcake liners and bake in a pre -heated oven at 400* F. for 20 minutes.

Makes 24 cupcakes, you will need all 24 to make “Get in the Cup-Cakes”

Chocolate Frosting

*1 cup Butter
*6 tablespoons Canned Milk or Cream
In sauce pan put milk or cream and butter and bring to a boil and cool slightly.

Add:

*1/4 cup cocoa
*2 lbs. Powder Sugar (minus one cup)
Mix well powder sugar and cocoa before adding to wet ingredients.
*2 teaspoons Vanilla

Beat together until smooth.

Frost all the cupcakes with the chocolate frosting unless you want the 6 sand trap cupcakes frosted white. Use some of the vanilla bought frosting or you can make your own before coloring it green.

Hint: You may want to half this chocolate frosting recipe unless you like a lot of frosting on you cupcakes.

This recipe is adapted From a Texas Cake recipe by Helen.

Note: We made these cupcakes a few days before and then frozen them. Then we took out them out of the freezer, let them thaw and then frosted and decorated them. We made a homemade marshmallow frosting for the green grass and we didn’t like the results, so we suggest using a vanilla frosting or use a bought frosting.

Grass Frosting: Color the vanilla frosting with green food coloring. Frost over 11 of the chocolate frosted cupcakes with a small amount of green frosting and then use a Multi-opening decorating tip 233 or 234. Place tip on decorating bag and fill the bag with frosting and decorate making grass.

Golf Green: For the Golf Green use 7 cupcakes frost with a small amount green frosting over the chocolate frosting then we sprinkled with green sugar sprinkles. We Used a Junior mint for the hole, pretzel for flag pole and fruit roll up for the flag.

Sand Trap: The last 6 cupcakes are frosted with brown or white frosting and sprinkle with 2 crushed Graham Crackers.

We used White Sixlets or you could use White Gum Balls, etc…..

Place the cupcakes in the shape of a golf course/green as desired.