So today is all about my friend, Kristan.
You know her, right? Adorable, hilarious and one of my best friends in the whole wide world.
She’s about to have a little girl…like any day now.
Since I have all boys, I feel like I will be able to live vicariously through her, and finally have someone to buy all those sweet little girly clothes for.
Boy clothes are so boring…jeans, shirts, sweater vests…blah blah blahhh.
No tutus. No hair bows. No pink and sparkly and shiny.
So anyway, Kristan is about to have a baby. And she loves it when you tell her she looks really, REALLY pregnant. Loves it.
So a bunch of us decided to celebrate her in the most girly way possible. With cupcakes.
I decided to make Zebra Cake Cupcakes, totally inspired by Kristan’s Homemade Zebra Cakes.
When she made those last year I was all at once, completely and totally jealous she thought of such a smart idea, and insanely hungry..because of all the prepackaged snack cakes, Zebra Cakes are my favorite.
So I decided to switch up her recipe ever so slightly and morph the Zebra Cake into a Zebra Cake Cupcake.
I made Yellow Cupcakes from a box mix, just like on Kristan’s recipe. I adapted her filling recipe to be a little more frosting-like, since I’m making cupcakes…
I started with Marshmallow Creme. You know it’s gonna be good.
I mixed that with some other frosting-type ingredients and put about a cup of it into a plastic piping bag.
I didn’t use a tip on the bag though…
Just filled it and snipped off the end.
The bag can be used to directly fill your cupcakes. Just stick the tip in and squeeze a few teaspoons of frosting into the cupcake.
You will see it start to fill up…and if your cupcake starts to crack you will know you’ve added too much. Don’t worry though…we’re gonna frost over the tops.
See, mine cracked a little bit. It’s totally fine.
Just frost the tops…
Then melt your chocolate in a zip-top bag and squeeze it around to make sure all the chocolate is melted…Snip off the corner and you have a no-mess bag!
The husband tried to help me get this shot…He is not an expert drizzler….
See how yummy that filling is?
Zebra Cake Cupcakes
Description
Makes 24 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box yellow cake mix, made according to package directions, into 24 cupcakes
- 1 cup vegetable shortening
- 3/4 cup Marshmallow Creme
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 7 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 oz chocolate for melting (I used almond bark)
Instructions
- Prepare cupcakes according to package directions and cool completely.
- In your stand mixer cream together your Marshmallow Creme and shortening until smooth, about a minutes on medium high speed.
- Slowly add in your powdered sugar and heavy cream on low speed. Once incorporated turn mixer up to medium-high and beat for 1-2 minutes until fluffy.
- Fill piping bag, not fitted with a tip with approximately 1 cup of frosting. Cut off about 1/2 inch of the bag and pierce each cupcake with the bag, squeezing about 2 teaspoons of frosting in each. The cupcake will begin to expand. Don’t overfill, or your cupcake will crack.
- Frost the cupcakes with the remaining frosting.
- Melt your chocolate in a zip-top bag in the microwave in 30 second increments until melted. Squeezing bag each 30 seconds to mix chocolate. Snip off a small corner of the bag and drizzle your chocolate stripes on cupcakes.
Notes
recipe inspired and adapted from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen
Sweet cupcakes! I love the marshmallow creme middles. 🙂
these look absolutely delicious and i love the filling!! congrats to Kristan! I’m so excited for her and her family 🙂 🙂
Some day when I’m pregnant I’m just going to bake my way through all of these cupcakes and then just blame my baby at week 40 when I look really REALLY pregnant. Plan? I prefer all cakes in cupcake form so I’m loving these!
These are just perfect, Shelly! Thanks so much for organizing this fantastic cupcake extravaganza for us – it was quite the success!
Such a cute looking cupcakes. Kids will love it for sure.
Adorable! Love the filling idea!
So nice of you to organize this shower! I have to admit I don’t know what zebra cakes are but I’m about to go do some googling. 🙂 Have fun buying little girl stuff. It does seem way more fun than boy stuff!
Oh my goodness those cupcakes are just too adorable! And I love the liners too. So fun! Congrats kristan!!! My sister-in-law is about to have a little girl too in about a month 😀
It is so sweet that everyone got together to give Kristan a virtual baby shower. These cupcakes look awesome.
Fun cakes, so perfect for a baby shower!