I need a recipe for a good cupcake and icing . These are for a outdoor wedding rehersal dinner in TN on a farm. I was thinking carrot or spice, but those need cream cheese icing and that is not possible as these cupcakes will bw traveling 4 hours.
The cupcakes will also be decorated with a painted sugar maple leaf made of gumpaste.
Any sugestions wii be appreciated.
sweetgrl1963

How about buttercream, maybe with cinnamon, butterscotch or caramel flavor? You can still do the spice/apple/pumpkin/carrot type cupcake with those.

The ideas are limitless.....caramel apple, maple pecan, sweet potato with a marshmallow icing(you can even cheat and use marsh fluff). Now I need to bake some for me

thanks for the input.I love the idea of cinnamon buttercream. do I just make the buttercream and then put in some spice .or is there aliquid flavoring that would do better.

i imagine that if you added powdered cinnamon to buttercream, it would give it a lovely flecked apperance i think that would look rather pretty!

Oh....man...sweet potato cupcakes with marshmallow icing. Must make some now!!!!!!

What about pumpkin with a pumpkin spice icing. My mom is already asking when I am going to start making then this year.

Last fall I used the Southern Butter Pecan coffee creamer in a yellow cake mix... It was amazing!! I also put some coconut in the buttercream and it went very well together!!

If you're decorating with a maple leaf, why not maple flavouring in your icing?

when I think farm, i think of breakfast....grits cupcakes with sausage buttercream
cupcake shaped biscuits with ham buttercream drizzled with red-eye gravy

okay, I am kidding

apple spice cake with caramel icing

I have a really good recipe for a pumpkin cake if you would like it. Believe it or not, it uses Bisquick!

I would like the recipe please.

I made a pumpkin spice cake with a maple cream cheese icing for Thanksgiving. Why can't you travel 4 hours with CC icing? It will hold, overnight even. The sugar acts as a preservative to keep the dairy from spoiling.

Maple buttercream goes over great in my area.

Spice cake with cream cheese icing. Always a big hit around here!

Pecan cake with maple frosing goes over well here

Spice cake with caramel buttercream

Add caramel Torani coffee flavoring to your favorite buttercream. (I like to add to cream cheese icing, too.)

Also, if you're concerned about cream cheese stability, but want that flavor, maybe consider: 1) a cream cheese sleeve filling (shelf stable), or 2) add LorAnn cream cheese flavoring to your regular buttercream.

I remembered this thread. Try the Chocolate Spice cake---awesome!

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-641117-fall.html+flavors

Great thread!! You can also click on the link in my signature which brings you to all the google docs from all the threads that have them -- there are lots of options there!!

Here's another thread: http://forum.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=603757&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0