Cupcake Redemption - Candy Corn Cupcake

Is it seriously October 1st??? Its finally starting to feel like fall here in Ohio - and I'm loving it!

Well remember yesterday when I had my baking fail because I broiled instead of baked?

Well today I redeemed myself and BAKED the cupcakes, and I think they turned out quite cute!
[see the yellow on the bottom and orange in the middle - with the white on top??]
No they don't really taste like candy corn - they are just yellow, orange and white - like a candy corn

Ingredients in the cupcake
1 box of cake mix [the recipe called for white, i used yellow]
1 cup of sour cream
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
food coloring [yellow and orange]

Combine cake mix, sour cream, vegetable oil, milk and eggs in large bowl. Mix according to the package directions
Divide batter evenly into 2 separate bowls
Color half of the batter with food coloring - one with orange and one with yellow [even though i used yellow cake - i still added yellow food coloring to make it more vibrant]
and in true kush fashion while I asked her to take pictures of the cupcake process - she had to get one in of herself as well

Place cupcake liners into cupcake tins. Fill each cupcake liner with 1/4 cup of yellow batter

and top with orange batter so cupcake liner is 1/2 full
And bake according to package directions
Cool cupcakes completely

Butter cream Icing
2 lbs powdered sugar
2 cups shortening
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp butter extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 cup of milk

I didn't think I had enough shortening [after i found out i needed 2 cups] so I headed over to my local drug mart - and the only size they had was this
i don't think that i will EVER need to buy shortening again in the rest of my life... i might as well work it into my will now... orrrr i could just have a give-a-way for a Costco sized can of crisco.. just kidding!

mix all the wet ingredients together in a stand mixer, continue to add powdered sugar until its the consistency that you would like [you can always add more milk or more powered sugar if it is too thick or too runny]

because mine is so thick - i couldn't use a piping bag, so I used the edge of a ziploc that I had cut off to pipe the cupcake frosting

right before you serve your cupcakes add a candy corn to the top
and enjoy

Just one of those days.....

I am definitely not complaining - but it was just one of those days... where it wasn't a bad day by any means.. just one of those days where it seemed like little things went wrong [and little things where I had to laugh at myself]....

which leads me to these two things


[1]
I grabbed the last diet coke out of my 12 pack in the fridge this morning at work only to find the bottom looked like this [see the bottom sticking out funny??]
so i thought to myself for a second and wondered what i could use to hold my diet coke upright while i was drinking it [because although i love diet coke and i use it for my caffeine fix daily - i'm not big into chugging it!] i then realized that i could place the can in the container that holds all of my pens
so my solution worked out really well [in my opinion anyway... and i'm sure that you saw the cup in the background, but i HATE diet coke in a cup unless its fountain - yes i can be picky about something that i am huge connoisseur of!]

[2]
apparently you are supposed to BAKE cupcakes and not broil them... wahhhh
thank g that this was the test run for my candy corn cupcakes that i'm making for friday....
both of these things are too funny not to share with all of you!
i hope you had a good day... and that you are able to laugh with me at my little incidents that happened today!