Fall is my favorite time of the year and if you want to create a cute fall cupcake this season then you are going to love this Maple Leaf Autumn Cupcakes.

What I love about this Autumn cupcakes is that you can use a boxed cake mix to create the cupcakes or buy plain cupcakes at your local store. These cute fall cupcake creations are super simple to make and seriously will be the talk of your gathering.

How to Make Maple Leaf Autumn Cupcakes

To make this Maple Leaf Autumn Cupcakes you are going to need the following ingredients:

• One dozen vanilla cupcakes
• yellow fondant
• red fondant
• Cornstarch for rolling
• Maple-leaf cookie cutter
• unsalted butter
•  confectioners’ sugar
• milk
• Yellow gel food coloring

Now that we have gathered all of our ingredients let’s make this autumn cupcakes.

Let’s begin!

How to make maple leaf fall cupcakes

Step 1 – Before we begin all cupcakes must be cool before decorating.

Step 2 – Get a baking sheet and insert wax paper.

Step 3 – Fold bother fondant colors with one another to create a “marble” look.

Step 4 – Dust cornstarch lightly on your working surface.

Step 5 – Roll your marbled fondant until is about 1/4 of an inch thick.

Step 6 – Use your cookie cutter, cut out maple leaf shapes ( I make extra just in case).

Step 7 – Place the fondant leaves on your lined baking sheet.

Step 8 – Use a paring knife and score lines on random areas of each leaf to give some texture.

Step 9 – Fold each leaf slightly to give it a more realistic look.

Step 10 – On slow speed use an electric mixer  and mix the butter, sugar, and milk

Step 11 – Gradually increase the mixer to high.

Step 12 – Add the yellow food coloring and mix until all the ingredients are smooth and it forms semi-stiff peaks.

Step 13 – Using a piping back, frost each cupcake.

Step 14 – Top each cupcake with a maple leaf fondant.

Now your Maple Leaf Autumn Cupcakes are ready!

You are ready to print this Maple Leaf Fall Cupcake recipe.

Your turn: What are your thoughts and ideas about this Maple Leaf Autumn Cupcakes? Share it with us!

Love this fall cupcakes? Check out these fall cupcake recipes:

• Caramel Apple Butter Cupcakes
• Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes

Guys, you have to check out these Shark costume cupcakes anyone can make at home. These homemade shark cupcakes are great for shark theme parties, Sharknado movie theme parties, and of course our favorite Shark Week!

What we love about these shark costume cupcake recipe is that you can use store bought cake mix or your homemade cake recipe.

How to Make Shark Costume Cupcakes

Shark cupcakes ingredients

To make this shark cupcake recipe you are going to need the following ingredients:

• white cake mix, any brand
• water
• vegetable oil
• egg whites
• white frosting
• blue gel food coloring
• a sleeve of graham crackers
• Wilton black candy melts
•  Wilton white candy melts
• Small sandwich baggy
• Parchment or wax paper
• Kitchen scissors
• White cupcake liners
• Toothpicks

Now that we have all the things we are going to need to make these shark cupcakes let’s begin!

Step 1 – Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Step 2 – Line 2 12-count muffin tins and add cupcake liners.

Step 3 – In a large bowl combine cake mix, water, vegetable oil and egg whites and mix well.

Step 4 – Pour mixture into muffin pans and fill halfway.

Step 5 – Bake the cupcake batter for about 18- 20 minutes or when toothpick comes out clean.

Step 6 – Remove the cupcakes and set to cool.

Step 7 – Grab your Wilton candy melts, and count 40 of each melts.

Step 8 – In a microwavable safe bowl melt the candy melts in 30-seconds increments, stirring until they are fully melted.

Step 9 – Let the candy melts cool for a few minutes.

Step 10 – Scoop the melted chocolate into a sandwich bag.

Step 11 – Use a large baking sheet and place parchment or wax paper on top of it.

Step 12 – Snip a small corner of the sandwich bag and gently squeeze the chocolate onto the baking sheet outlining a shark fin, about 1-inch size.

Step 13 – fill the middle of the shark fin outline and use a toothpick to fill it in.

Step 14 – Repeat the process 24 times to make 24 fins for each cupcake. I will suggest making extra just in case some breaks.

Step 15 – Let the shark fins set for 30 minutes.

Step 16 – In another bowl add a few drops of blue gel food coloring to the white frosting and mix well.

 

Step 17 – Frost the cupcakes generously with the blue frosting.

Step 18 – Once you frost the cupcakes take each cupcake and dip it into the crush graham cracker crumbs to make the beach.

Step 19 – Gently place the shark fin into the blue icing (water). If they don’t stank use a toothpick to help it stand.

Step 20 – Repeat the process with all cupcakes.

This recipe makes about 24 cupcakes!

Your Shark Costume Cupcakes are done!

Now you are ready to print and make these shark cupcakes. Enjoy!

Your turn: Now that you read how to make a shark costume cupcakes what are your thoughts and tips?

Love Sharks? Check out these posts:

• Shark Attack Float – Aka Blue Raspberry Float {Vegan And Gluten-Free}
• Coconut Chocolate Shark Bark
• Shark Sensory Bin: An Easy Shark Week Activity
• Shark Movies on Netflix

Let’s talk about blue cheese, mushroom and bacon slicer for a minute!

Did I get your attention? Let’s begin!

Now, as a mom trying to keep the amount of carbs intake I have to admit that it wasn’t as easy as I thought. Trying to find a good Keto or low carb recipe that tastes good might be a challenge since I tend just to love carbs!

This blue cheese, mushroom and bacon slicer recipe passed my test, and it is why I’m here writing this post about it.

Now, this bacon slider recipe is super delicious, and one bite and you will forget about the bun. I did!

Seriously have to say that is very juicy and flavorful it became a favorite in our home.

How To Make Blue Cheese, Mushroom and Bacon Sliders

You are going to learn how to make this blue cheese, mushroom, bacon slider and we are going to start by gathering our ingredients.

Check out these low-carb recipes:

• Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken Roll-Ups
• Low Carb Spaghetti Squash

Ingredients for Blue Cheese, Mushroom and Bacon Sliders

For this slider recipe you are going to need:

• ground beef 
• Dijon mustard  
• garlic cloves
• onion
• Sea salt
• black pepper
• extra virgin olive oil
• white mushrooms
• Crumbled blue cheese
• bacon strips

Now that we have the ingredients let’s make this blue cheese, mushroom and bacon slicer recipe!

Step 1 – Preheat oven broiler to high.

Step 2 – Using a medium bowl add ground beef, mustard, garlic and onion and mix well.

Step 3 – Add salt and pepper to taste and again mix well.

Step 4 – Divide the mixture into 8 portions.

Step 5 – Shape each portion into small patties.

Step 6 – On a flat surface use your thumb and press the center to keep them from puffing up while they broil.

Step 7 – Set aside.

Step 8 – Using an oven-safe skillet heat olive oil over medium-high heat.

Step 9 – Add the mushrooms and cook until they are brown for about 5 minutes.

Step 10 – Remove from heat and place the cooked mushrooms into a small bowl.

Step 11- Add the remaining olive oil to a pan and coat the bottom.

Step 12 – Add the patties on the skillet and cook until brown on both sides.

Step 13 – Remove them from heat and top each slider with sauteed mushroom and blue cheese.

Step 14 – Place skillet under the broiler for 2 – 3 minutes or until cheese melts.

Step 15 – Remove from oven.

Step 16 – Top sliders with bacon and serve on a bed of lettuce.

Your Blue Cheese, Mushroom and Bacon Sliders is done!

You can serve this Blue Cheese, Mushroom and Bacon Sliders with broccoli.

Now it is time to print this recipe!

Today you are going to learn how to make easy and delicious pumpkin cream puffs, my friends!

These delicious cream puffs scream fall, and you are going to love the taste of them.

So let’s begin, shall we?

How To Make Pumpkin Cream Puffs

Cream Puffs Recipe Ingredients

Puff Pastry:

• ¼ teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of water
• 1 cup all-purpose Flour
• 4 Eggs
• ½ cup Butter

Pumpkin Filling:

• 1 cup of pure pumpkin puree
• 1 teaspoon of pumpkin spice
• 4oz of cream cheese softened
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon of salt

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a large pot over high heat bring butter and water to a boil.

Stir in the salt and flour, lower heat to medium and mix until it becomes a ball form.

Try these pumpkin recipes:

• Fall For Pumpkins This Season
• Low Carb Pumpkin Pie Recipe – Gluten Free

Place dough in a large mixing bowl.

Whisk in one egg at a time, being sure it’s well mixed before adding another. Repeat for all four eggs.

In an ungreased pan, drop in 1 tablespoon of dough at a time.

Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Once puffs are done, slice in half. Spoon on one and a half teaspoon of pumpkin filling.

Layer again with the other half of the puff.

Dust with powdered sugar.

Halloween has got to be my most favourite time of the year and it’s also a great time for making and eating yummy treats!

To me Halloween isn’t just about candy corn, spooky ghosts and trick-or-treating. When this time a year rolls around is a great opportunity to exercise my creativity muscles when it comes to my baking. lol

These Halloween cookies are absolutely perfect for any gathering or party you have planned this year. One of the great things about spider web cookies is that they look quite impressive but are actually very easy to make.

The ingredients used to make the spider web cookies give them a nice moist and chocolatey inside – which in my opinion, makes for a pretty darn good cookie!

A deliciously rich chocolate frosting is spread on top of the cookies and then spider webs are drawn on top using a piping bag or a zip top bag with a small hole cut on the corner.

The web designs are actually very easy to make on top. After you’ve spread the chocolate frosting, you just take the piping bag or zip top baggie and form an X on top. Then you make another X and finish off by creating a spiral starting from the edge of the cookie and into the middle.

My taste testers for this Halloween Cookies recipe really enjoyed it, so I know you will love it as well!

If you enjoy this recipe, you can also find more great dessert ideas from Dishes and Dust Bunnies by clicking this link!

 

What’s your favorite Halloween treat?

I’d love to hear from you so please feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below! 🙂

My favorites all in one amazing cake!  This strawberry Banana Pineapple cake has it all!

Pineapples!

Strawberries!

Bananas!

Cool Whip!

I’m a fan of these ingredients and now that the temperatures are rising it is time to start planning and thinking cool! This Strawberry Banana Pineapple Cake Recipe is what came into mind!

As I said a simple and delicious recipe and when it comes to our family reunion you can guarantee this will be a hit!

What you are going to need is your favorite yellow cake mix or your own. It really doesn’t matter, but to cut time use your favorite yellow cake mix will do!

Your favorite vanilla instant pudding mix, we bought ours from Aldi, and it tasted great and saved us money.

The good thing about this cake recipe is that you can add whatever fresh fruit you want. Seriously, you can! Add blueberries to this, and you can’t go wrong.

Enjoy this recipe and remember to have fun with it! Add your favorite fresh fruit and make it your own.

 

Check out these amazing recipes:

• Easy Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade
• Strawberry Cream Cheese Roll Ups
• Easy Strawberry Breakfast Turnovers
• 2 Ingredient Banana Bread

 

Have way too much leftover ham and need a recipe? Today is your lucky day because here at The Happy Home Life we have over 20 leftover ham recipes available to help you.

From rice to breakfast to soup, you will find ways to use your leftover ham and create a delicious recipe you and your family will love.

Over 20 Delicious Leftover Ham Recipes

• Quinoa Fried Rice – A great way to use leftover ham!
• Leftover Ham – Make Nigella Lawson’s Cuban Black Bean Soup.
• Cuban Ham Sandwich Recipe – An easy, quick and simple variation of the traditional Cuban Ham Sandwich.
• Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes & Ham Recipe – A favorite dish to make with your leftover ham.

• Leftover Ham & Plantain Soup – Great way to use your leftover ham and sweeten it with plantain.
• Slow Cooker Ham Soup – Using Leftover Ham, this recipe shows step by step photos.
• Ham Casserole Recipe – This is delicious and the good news is freezes well.
• Ham and Cheese Stromboli – This recipe uses leftover ham and uses a pizza dough.

• Slow Cooker White Bean and Ham Soup Recipe – Another great soup recipe you can also freeze!
• Ham Salad – Put your leftover ham to good use!
• Hawaiian Pizza Pasta Bake – This recipe sounds amazing!
• Cheesy Ham on Cornbread – An easy breakfast recipe.

• Easy Baked Ham Sandwich – This recipe is great for leftovers!
• Slow Cooker Ham & Potato Hash – Another great recipe to use your leftover ham.
• Ham and Asparagus Spaghetti – Made with tender chunks of ham, spaghetti noodles, asparagus and Parmesan cheese.
• Ham and Cheese Quiche – You can add leftover ham to this recipe and make a delicious cheesy Quiche.

• Dutch Split Pea Sound Recipe – Great meal to create when you have family over!
• Croque Madame Bread Pudding – Delicious recipe for our next brunch.
• Classic Homemade Macaroni Salad – Adding leftover ham to your classic homemade macaroni salad will be a hit.
• Crock Pot Ham and Potato Chowder – Oh this is going to make  a delicious chowder when you add leftover ham!

• 15 Bean Soup with Ham – Kick up the Cajun seasoning and you will have delicious soup!
• Ham & Egg Breakfast Cups Recipe – Another great breakfast using leftover ham.
• Ham Bone Soup – Lots of ham and veggie in this recipe.
• Hawaiian Crockpot Ham Sandwiches – Create a delicious Hawaiian ham sandwich with your leftover ham.