Cupcake Rut

Recently, I have found myself in a cupcake rut. Many of my new ideas and recipes have come to me in the baby cake form. I love cupcakes. I love the versitility and portablity of them, but I feel that they are our current bakery fad. A few years ago, it was cookie shops and now cupcake shops are popping up all over the place. I don't want to fall into that fad and never be able to get out. But nonetheless, my cupcakes are what people want.

Last week while trying to fall asleep I came up with an idea for Caramel Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. The idea was sound, but the recipe needs some tweeking. Like my husband, the artist, I am finding that I am getting very picky about my work, and was really not happy with those cupcakes.

My next babycake adventure will be Salted Caramel Cupcakes. I have been kicking that idea around for a while, but haven't decided on the exact recipe as of yet.

Before I do that, though, I have to get started on the Red Velvet cupcakes for a friends wedding. The wedding is in April, but with my work schedule and other Cloud 9 Pastries clients, I want to get started on those as soon as possible. Don't worry, they freeze really well and I won't frost all 250 of them until the day before the wedding.