I realize that I post a lot of dessert recipes to the blog. Normally it’s one dessert recipe after the other. Sometimes I just get on a dessert kick and that’s what I want to post to the blog.
I also realize that I just posted a blog post about Fat Shaming & PCOS jammed in between those dessert recipes.
I’m not oblivious to how that looks. Here’s a girl telling you that she gained all this weight and can’t loose it because she had PCOS and then she’s posting 100000 dessert recipes on her blog.
Yeah ok……
Well here’s the secret, I don’t eat all of these dang desserts. GASP
I know right? haha 😉
I know that’s not some super amazing secret but people have got to understand that when I make 24 cupcakes for a blog post that I’m not sitting at home on my couch eating 2 dozen sweet treats and binge watching Dr. Phil.
Sure I have to taste the desserts. I mean how could I blog about them or adjust measurements and perfect them if I didn’t taste them? But that doesn’t mean I’m shoveling them into my face.
Also, just because I post 3 dessert recipes in a row one week doesn’t mean that I had all of those desserts in my house that week. Sometimes I make desserts, photograph them, write up the recipes and then shove them into my “to publish” folder and wait a while before putting them on the blog.
So what happens to all of the goodies that I make if I don’t eat them all?
Lately it means that I’m packing up containers of treats and sending them off to work with BigBear. Those guys work their tales off so they can use the extra calories 😉 haha.
For example, last week I sent them about 56 “Candy Explosion Cookies” to use up the easter candy we had in the house and this morning I packed up about a dozen cookie cereal marshmallow treats for them. (both of those recipes will be on the blog soon too!)
But if they’re not going to work with BigBear, they’re coming to my office, BigBear is hording a few or they’re being picked up by friends.
One year I even dropped off 7-8 giant plates of decorated sugar cookies at the homeless shelter because I wanted to decorate Christmas sugar cookies (and get a little practice in) but I didn’t want all of those cookies in my house afterwards. (if they’re not there I can’t eat them haha) So we called the local homeless shelter, got permission to bring them (since they were homemade I wanted to make sure it was ok), wrapped them up and took them down a few days before Christmas.
So I made these Brownie Brittle Toffee Crunch Cupcakes for Brownie Brittle back in the fall of last year, photographed them and they’ve just been siting in my “drafts” folder since then because I was waiting for the right time to share them.
I adore these cupcakes and that Toffee Crunch Brownie Brittle but sometimes I’ve just got to have a “feeling” that it’s the right time to post something before it makes it’s appearance. haha
Today is the day!
These Brownie Brittle Toffee Crunch Cupcakes are ready to make their appearance on the blog. 🙂
These rich chocolate cupcakes are topped with a homemade cream cheese butter cream icing, drizzled with chocolate icing and topped with Toffee Crunch Brownie Brittle!
These beauties even have Toffee Crunch Brownie Brittle baked right into them!
One last thing before I end this post.
Today’s my mother in law’s Birthday!!
I couldn’t have been blessed with a more wonderful mother in law.
Happy Birthday, Mom!! We love you!
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By: Angie Barrett
4/20/15
Makes 24 cupcakes (Click to Print)
Ingredients
2 cups flour
For Icing:
1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
8 oz cream cheese
2 lbs. powdered sugar
5 tablespoons caramel sauce
2 tablespoons milk
For Topping:
1 cup chocolate frosting (canned or homemade) OR 1 Cup chocolate sauce
1/4 cup crushed Toffee Crunch Brownie Brittle
1 piece of Toffee Crunch Brownie Brittle for each cupcake (24 Pieces Total)
(this batter will be very thin)
Frost the cupcakes with the vanilla icing.
Drizzle chocolate icing or chocolate sauce over the cupcakes and sprinkle each cupcake with a little but of the crushed Toffee Crunch Brownie Brittle.
Top each cupcake with a piece of Toffee Crunch Brownie Brittle.
Brownie Brittle did pay me to develop and photograph this recipe but I’m sharing it with you because I love them and I love these cupcakes. As always, all opinions are my own.
Aww you sweetened the day at the homeless shelter & happy b’day to your MIL. Contrary to you I don’t bake many desserts so guess what happens when I do?! Yikes!
These look AWESOME! I might sit and eat 2 dozen or so 😀
We do the same thing…bake desserts and immediately give them away! But – these cupcakes look so amazing…I’m not sure I would give them away…I’d rather eat them!
I would say any day would be the right day to post these. You are better than me, if I made these little beauties they wouldn’t be anywhere but in my belly!!! I guess that’s why I hardly bake and just stick to savory! Great job.
These look incredible! Love the brownie brittle on top too! That’s double the delicious fun!
I love brownie brittle!
wait…so you’re saying I SHOULDN’T sit and watch TV while I eat 2 dozen cupcakes??…awkward.
😛 seriously I could not limit myself to 1 or 2 of these-they’re just too good!!!
No judgement here! My neighbors love it when the see one of The Sons walking up their driveways because they know they’re getting dessert that night. Chocolate cupcakes are perfect anytime.
I may be the only person in the world who still hasn’t tried brownie brittle – these sound delicious! Happy birthday to your MIL!
I could eat an embarrassing amount of brownie brittle in one sitting! These cupcakes look crazy good!
Holy cow! This looks incredible, what a great idea!
My favorite thing to do with baked goods is to send them with my husband to work, too. I don’t think I can ever stop baking so this way everyone wins. These look fabulous, Angie. That toffee crunch on top is just the perfect touch to make these really special!
I love brownie brittle! I don’t think I could bake with it…just because I can’t keep it in the house long enough to actually get a batter made up! 😉
Happy birthday to your MIL 🙂 Also I want these cupcake….all of them! Brownie Brittle is my jam….yum!
Yup, gotta find places to get rid of those treats. I kinda love baking gluten-y desserts because I can have everyone else taste test, and I can’t eat them! But these look so good, I know my little guy would devour them!
You know I am a huge fan of Brownie Brittle!!