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Blow Pop Cupcakes

Blow Pop Cupcakes with a Blow Pop Topper

So the other day I went to the supermarket with my friend.

It was a quick trip in and out only to grab the essentials.

We had just come out of the gym where I had been lifting 7 lb weights like a stone cold machine.

When I got up to the front of the line I realized that I forgot to grab lentils, the item that I initially went in to buy.  Of course.

My friend came to the rescue and said she would grab them for me while I checked out.

So I politely said to the cashier, “Where are the lentils?”

No response. Eyes Shift.

“Excuse me, where are the lentils?”

Mumbles

“The LENTILS, where would I find them?”

{Small voice} Aisle 4.

My friend retrieved the ever-important lentils and I paid for my items as planned.

On our way out to the car my friend turned to me and said, “You are kind of intimidating.”

She actually said that to me.

I’m all, “WHAA?!?  Are you joking?”

She said that I basically intimidated the cashier into a mumbling mess.

Now for 3 days straight I have been obsessing over whether or not I am an “intimidator”.

A lentil intimidating fool.

Did I use a devil voice when asking for the lentils?  Did my bulging 7 lb pumping biceps scare the cashier into a shifty pile of mumbles?  Did the thought of someone eating lentils disgust her into not wanting to speak?  Maybe I had crazy hair after my low-impact workout and she mistook me for Medusa.  That, certainly, would explain her lack of eye contact…I mean, the fear of turning to stone can do that to a person.

So I did what we all know I shouldn’t do.  I asked my husband.

He promptly agreed with my friend.  And by agree I mean, not answer but give me a deer in headlights stare.

A man intimidated.

I just don’t see how anyone who invents such things as Blow Pop Cupcakes could be menacing or formidable.

So I am basically working everyday now, trying not to scare cashiers.  It’s my new thing.

Maybe I will just carry cupcakes around and pass them out so people won’t be frightened.

Yeah, that’s what I will do.

So let’s begin.

Blow Pop Cupcakes…or more specifically, Strawberry Marshmallow filled Strawberry Cupcake with Bubble Gum Marshmallow Buttercream.  That’s a mouthful, literally and figuratively.

First you need to get to the store and buy some of this stuff…

Have you seen it?  It’s a powder they sell down the baking aisle that you can add to frosting to flavor it.

You Duncan Hines people are pretty smart.

I chose Bubble Gum flavor…the least intimidating of the bunch.

You can certainly add this to canned frosting…actually I think that’s the whole idea…but you know how I feel about canned frosting, so I whipped up some of my own.

Just toss the contents of the packet into your frosting and mix away…

This is what it will look like…

Gorgeous, pink and packed with bubblegum flavor.

Next I baked up some Strawberry cupcakes…using a box mix.

Say something, I dare you.

When the cupcakes were cooled I cut out a hole in each and stuffed a big strawberry marshmallow into each.  Boo-yah!  (Do people still say boo-yah?)

I may or may not have eaten the scraps.  It’s what intimidators do.  They eat the scraps.

Then I filled a piping bag (fitted with a Wilton 1A tip) with my delicious bubblegum frosting and piped away.

Finally I stuck a Blow Pop up in there.  Just in case it wasn’t sweet enough 😉

And in case you’re interested, here’s the internals…

The strawberry marshmallow on the inside is a fun surprise.

Kid food at its finest.

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Bubble Gum Marshmallow Buttercream

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Ingredients

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  • 1 cup room temp butter
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 3/4 cup Marshmallow Fluff
  • 6 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 Tbsp milk
  • 1 (0.10oz) package Duncan Hines Bubble Gum Flavored “Frosting Creations”

Instructions

  1. On medium speed cream butter and shortening together until smooth.
  2. Add in Marshmallow Fluff until combined.
  3. On low speed add powdered sugar, one cup at a time
  4. Add milk and flavor package stir 15 seconds.
  5. Turn mixer up to medium and mix for 30 seconds or until flavor package is incorporated evenly, scraping sides as needed.

Notes

Makes enough frosting for 24 cupcakes
If you pipe a high swirl it will only make enough for 12 cupcakes.

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85 comments on “Blow Pop Cupcakes”

  1. I just recently subscribed to your feed, and boy am I hooked! Your treats are so preciously cute and DELICIOUS looking! I don’t know how I’ll keep myself from making AND eating it all!
    Oh, and I’ve been told that I’m intimidating before too. I’m a 5’1″ shorty who has only ever heard she’s cute and adorable and pocket-sized. HOW is that intimidating?! So I’m like you – trying to be nice to everyone. Haha!

  2. sweetsugarbelle

    Ha…Really and truly, intimidating is about the last thing that would come to mind. YOu can tell your hubs that if I were telling a stranger about you, I would say approachable. Anywho, I guess I am going to have to go looking for this frosting flavor. Of course I am going to have to stick it in royal icing!

  3. Tara @ secretsofamomaholic.com

    I am SO making these for my daughter’s birthday party! She will love them!

    I’ve been told I intimidate as well- maybe I should walk around with a bag of cupcakes too…I think I would end up shoving them in peoples faces instead of kindly handing them out!

    Maybe I’ll leave the cupcakes at home.

  4. Karen @ Sugartown Sweets

    I got so excited reading your post! My grandkids are gonna LOVE these! Awesome idea! Plus, your post made me LOL! 🙂

  5. I get that I’m intimidating all the time! Granted, I’m six feet tall and have been since I was sixteen, so I’ve gotten used to it. I’ve also got the angry librarian stare down pat, so…maybe I’ve cultivated it a little bit (now if only the angry librarian stare still worked on people. sigh). However, people who know me…know that I’m a pushover and that if they’re nice I’ll bake them cupcakes. And cookies. And cakes. And fluffy yummy deliciousness.
    And say things like “fluffy yummy deliciousness”.

    I subscribe to the theory that the cashier wasn’t so much intimidated by you as clueless as to what a lentil actually is and just happened to guess right when you didn’t drop the question.

    Also I have never seen these flavor packets. Possibly because I seldom look at anything at that end of the baking aisle. I have a serious weakness for canned chocolate frosting, and I fear if I go to pick up these flavors I may have to buy a can. and eat it. with a spoon.

    Intimidating? Really?

  6. mandy schneider

    Hi! I never thought of putting the packs into homemade frosting..thank you for the idea! I just made funfetti cupcakes and I’m going to frost with Cotton Candy frosting but have one quick question for you..do you sift your powdered sugar or just add it as is? thank you so much again!! 🙂

  7. While these cupcakes look quite yummy; my first thought when I saw the picture was “pink slime!” The icing some what reminds me of the “pink slime” all the rage in the news these days…….sorry. 🙁

  8. I can not get enough of your posts! Your writing no doubt possesses what I assume is every ounce of your personality and charm – I have fun reading your page and sharing it with friends – and even attempting the recipes that you make look fun and easy. You are a treasure!!

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