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My daughter and I went to the post office last night to mail out some cookies. (Yay for fun cookie swaps btw) Do you know what we noticed? Not very many people decorate their houses for Christmas anymore. On our street there are only 6 houses with out door lights twinkling on their porches. That may sound like quite a few, until you know that there are at least 50 homes on the 2 blocks of our street. And we didn’t see very many throughout town as were were driving. Why are so many people Scrooge McMuffins when it comes to decorating with outdoor lights? When I was little I can remember house after house decked out for the holidays. (and I’m not that old)
Speaking of decorating, do you like cute baking supplies as much as I do? Something about adorable cupcake liners just makes the cupcakes look that much better. So of course I jumped at the chance to bake with some new cupcake liners from Sweets & Treats Boutique. I loved that the pattern and color was still visible after baking cupcakes in them. Gotta love these grease proof liners!!!
Guess what? Shannon has graciously donated a fabulous prize package full of cute Christmas colored baking supplies for today’s giveaway. All sorts of red, green, and pink goodies will be mailed out to the winner just in time for all your holiday parties.
Let’s talk about this cupcake recipe for a minute. A few months ago we were at a carry in dinner at church and I had one of these cupcakes. They were made by one of the sweetest ladies in our church. (Hi, Maureen!) After eating one, I just had to have the recipe. Of course she graciously wrote it down for me and gave me permission to blog it. What I love most about these cupcakes is how easy and fast they are to put together. With all the business of the holiday month, I love having easy cake mix recipes that I can just jazz up with a few extra ingredients.
My favorite part of these cupcakes is the hidden pineapple preserve center. Now you can totally get all Martha on me and make homemade preserves, but remember I said I like fast, simple, and easy recipes during busy months. So I just bought a jar of the Smuckers pineapple preserves and that worked out for me. Same goes for the candied pineapple on top…feel free to make your own But they sell it in the store, so I chose to support the pineapple company and just bought it already candied. That leaves me more time to shop for gifts or put more lights on the outside of my house:-)
Want more fruit filled desserts on your holiday tables? Check out these delicious links…
Toffee Apple Pie Cookies from BruCrew Life
Cranberry Bliss Bars from Averie Cooks
White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Fudge from Chocolate, Chocolate and More
Lemon Cheesecake Cake from BruCrew Life
Vanilla cupcakes filled with pineapple preserves and topped with cream cheese frosting
Ingredients
Instructions
- Combine the cake mix, pudding, eggs, water, and oil in a mixing bowl. Beat on low for 1 minute and medium for 2 minutes. Spoon into cupcake liners and bake at 325* for 22 minutes. Let cool.
- Scoop out a small spoonful from the center of the cupcakes and fill with pineapple preserves.
- Beat the cream cheese and butter until creamy. Slowly add the powdered sugar until all is mixed in. Let chill for 30 minutes. Place in decorator bag and pipe onto cupcakes covering the preserves. Optional: top with candied pineapple if desired
Sweets and Treats Boutique provided BruCrew Life with liners to review. All opinions are my own.
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Jocelyn is the baker, photographer, and writer behind Inside BruCrew Life. She is married to her best friend, and they have three great kids. She spends her days baking sweet treats, and then trying to find ways to give the treats away without eating them all. Grab a cup of coffee and visit while she shares life from their kitchen.
Thanks for the chance to win! Everything looks great; can’t wait to check out her website!
Desi
Those cupcakes look gorgeous Jocelyn! I love pineapple! We bloggers tend to ignore this fruit more than the others. And those liners. I’m loving the Chevron!
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Thanks for the chance to win! Everything looks great; can’t wait to check our her website!
Desi
Chocolate cupcakes would be perfect.
Yummy cupcakes! I would make some sort of chocolate cupcake.
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Those liners are too cute! I want to bake cupcakes in them, or heck, just stare at them all day
I love them! And I love these fruity cupcakes!
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel recently posted..Marshmallow Dreidels
The liners are so pretty:-) I couldn’t wait to bake with them!
Funfetti cupcakes, of course!
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Your cupcakes look super yummy! I would bake up some vanilla cupcakes with cookies and cream icing:)
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Thanks for linking up my Cranberry Bliss Bars and for the fun giveaway. First thing I’d bake in them would be chocolate cupcakes! Or what you made – I love pineapple anything!
Thanks for the chance to enter and win! I love making cupcakes. The most recent ones I made were in mid-October and they were homemade pumpkin cupcakes topped with homemade cinnamon nutmeg cream cheese frosting, a drizzle of caramel and a slight sprinkle of sea salt! They were a big hit with family, friends and coworkers.
But being the Christmas season, I’m thinking a dark chocolate cake with a peppermint buttercream and hot fudge drizzle would be perfect to try out these liners!
My daughter’s birthday is in January so I would bake her some special cupcakes!
I’d bake cupcakes with my best friend who is coming into town for the holidays!!
keri @ shaken together recently posted..{create this} faux birch bark votive jackets
I would definitely make some yummy holiday cupcakes of some kind.
What a fun giveaway!! I would definitely bake some red velvet cupcakes in the cute liners. With cream cheese frosting and a little sprinkle of red and green sugar they’d be perfect for a Christmas party! Thanks for the chance to win.
And those pineapple cupcakes look delish! If you used coconut milk instead water and added some coconut flakes to the batter, OMG! ; )
~ Catie
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I’d probably make salted caramel cupcakes.
I have my eye on a white chocolate cranberry muffin recipe. I’d make that.
Love pineapple, and have never seen pineapple cupcakes! What a great idea!
These cupcakes are so cute! I have been meaning to make cupcakes for way too long now – chocolate with chocolate mint frosting! (:
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I think I’d have to try these cupcakes first! They look incredible!
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I would bake a fun Valentine cupcake idea I have!
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I think I’d make some chocolate cupcakes… you can’t go wrong with chocolate!
I love how vibrant these liners are even after baking! Hmmmm, I’m thinking some sort of chocolate cupcake sounds good right now.
Love this pineapple version – and your swirly frosting is so pretty!
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I would make dark chocolate cream cheese cupcakes!
Ok, I’m a scrooge, but now you’ve made me feel guilty so I’ll dig out the lights and put them up before the weekend. We just stopped putting them up because we hated taking them down again.
As for the liners, they’d have to have some wonderful muffin in them for Christmas morning!
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Oh and thanks for including me!
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yummy!!! my sweethubby is a “scrooge mcmuffin” about the outdoor lights. he has said he would do it if it were important to all of us.. so i guess we are all little scroogie mcmuffins about it? we don’t make a big deal BUT i do have cute trees on my little porch WITH darling lights.. i just don’t always remember to turn them on.
p.s. i would probably bake something like chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache and chocolate dipped candy canes all crunched up on the top.
Ha! You need to come to my neighborhood. We put up lights, but feel like the scrooges because we didn’t go Christmas Vacation style.
Yummy cupcakes, and those straws. I want!
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i’d love to make these cupcakes in those liners!
K. Those cupcakes made me hungry! Thanks so much for the super cute giveaway! Have a lovely week! Angie xo
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I would make any cupcakes in these – but first, funfetti!
I would love to make some spicy ginger cupcakes.
Ahhh! Such cute stuff! All of your product recs are getting me to spend money on myself instead of shopping for others… which isn’t always a bad thing!
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OMG..I love those chevron liners. Too cute!
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Emailed this to my mom! I think my dad would like this flavor for his bday infebruary!
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I would probably make vanilla and red velvet cupcakes. Thanks for the giveaway. Good luck everyone.
Oh my! So cute, I would totally make some red velvet cupcakes for the holidays, love that deep red color during Christmas!
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My favorite cake growing up is pineapple upside down cake . So, this recipe for pineapple cupcakes is definitely on my short list. They look SO yummy and so cute in those cupcake liners. Lovin the chevrons.
These cupcakes look so light and refreshing. And cute cupcake papers…always calling my name, where ever I might be.
I came for the cupcakes and love that there was a contest. I LOVE cupcakes and would use the liners for them. Your pineapple cupcakes are mouth-watering!
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Your cupcakes look so fun and delicious! I would bake muffins (my favorite) with these liners first!
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Your cupcakes look amazing. That’s so sad your neighbors don’t decorate anymore
I love driving at night through my area just to see the houses lit.
I love those paper liners, so cute! Definitely they call for some chocolate cupcakes
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Beautiful liners =) i hope i win them
I would make either an eggnog or peppermint swirl cupcakes!
i am totally mesmerized by how stinkin adorable those cupcake liners are!! oh, and these pineapple cupcakes of course – so easy! i’ve never had a pineapple cupcake before now that i think about it
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I was in the mood for something other than my usual chocolate and peanut butter…now it’s out of my system bring on the chocolate:-) And yes those liners are stinkin adorable!!!
Probably your Almond Joy cupcakes! Luv them!!!
These look amazing! Stopping by via The Country Cook. If you haven’t already, I would love for you to come share at my Farm Girl Blog Fest: http://fresh-eggs-daily.blogspot.com/2012/12/farm-girl-friday-blog-fest-12.html
Lisa
Fresh Eggs Daily
I would make cherry almond – yours look so delish!
I’d bake some cupcakes!!
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Some festive cupcakes for the holiday!
I would make muffins!
I’m delighted how simply these are to put together and taste amazing, and look great.I’ve featured this recipes on my blog! I hope you don’t mind! If you don’t agree with that please contact me and I will remove it. All the best.
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