Blog Tour: Recalled by Cambria Hebert

Hiya!

Today I am super excited to have the lovely Cambria Hebert here on the blog as part of her Recalled Blog Tour brought to you by Xpresso Reads.  She's here to share with you an awesome recipe she has found (that is making me drool just putting this post together) and theres also an awesome giveaway to enter! But first, here is a little about the book:

Recalled
(Death Escorts #1)
by Cambria Hebert
published February 15, 2013

Love or Death? A simple question really. The choice seems obvious. But. What if you never knew love, what if your life was spent just trying to survive? What if you knew your fate before you were fully grown?

And then you died.

And you were given another chance. A better chance.

This new life depended upon one thing: your job. And so you agreed. You thought it would be simple. You thought it would be cut and dry.

It never is.

And now you are left holding the fate of someone else in the palm of your hand and you have to make the ultimate choice.

Love or Death?

Guest Post

Oreo Cupcakes

I think most people like cupcakes. In fact if you don’t this is not the post for you. I repeat. Step away from the computer because there is an explosion of yumminess about to come your way.

I happen to love cupcakes as well and it has just occurred to me that I have not made nearly enough of them. I will have to go on a mission to bake some asap.

Anyway, why are we talking about cupcakes you ask? Well for one, why not talk about cupcakes? And two, the girls Piper and Frankie in my new book Recalled love some cupcakes. In fact there is a cupcake shop in my book (called the Iced Princess) that makes the best cupcakes like ever.

So I thought why not share a tasty recipe with all of you for cupcakes.

I began looking around for a really good looking recipe and boy did I find like 50. But that would just be an insanely long blog post. So I chose one. Yes, I managed to choose just one (But I also pinned a bunch of recipes to Pinterest for later, lol).

I came across this recipe at Beantown Baker.

It is a recipe for Oreo Cupcakes. That’s right. This place went and combined cupcakes and oreos. Yes, I just swooned. I know you did too.

Just look at the goodness:


I bet you want to make cupcakes now too, don’t you??

So here is the recipe which I copied from Beantown Bakery site.
Oreo Cupcakes
YIELD: 24 CUPCAKES

ingredients:
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups flour, plus 2 Tbsp for the Oreo chunks
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

1 2/3 cup sugar

3 large egg whites, at room temperature

1 pkg Oreo Cookies (~45 cookies)

double batch of cream cheese frosting

directions:
For the Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 350F. Insert liners into a medium cupcake pan.

Twist apart 24 Oreos. Place the wafer with filling on it, filling side up, in the bottom of each paper liner. Cut other wafers in half. Save 24 halves to place in the frosting. Crush the other wafer halves, also for garnishing.

Cut the remaining Oreo cookies into quarters with a sharp knife. Toss with 2 Tbsp flour and set aside.

In a large bowl cream the butter until fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add the milk and vanilla and mix to combine.

In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Add the dry ingredients to butter mixture. Mix until integrated. Stir in sugar. With an electric mixer on low speed, beat for 30 seconds. Turn the mixer up to medium speed and beat for 2 minutes. Add the egg whites. Beat for 2 more minutes. Stir in the quartered cookies.

Fill the cupcake lines three-quarters full. Bake for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of cupcakes comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in the pan.

Assemble the cupcakes
Once cupcakes have cooled completely, frost with cream cheese frosting. Sprinkle with crushed Oreos and place 1/2 of an Oreo on the frosting of each cupcake.

*Recipe and images in this post from Beantown Baker

So do you like to bake? What is your favorite kind of cupcake to make?

-Cambria Hebert

OMG how good do those freaking cupcakes look? I will definitely be trying this recipe out because I am a cupcake fanatic and cupcakes + oreos = WIN!

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Author. Blogger. Latte Sipper.

Cambria Hebert is an author who wrote her first book at the age of fifteen. It was terrible. But the passion for writing never went away so years later when she opened her laptop and started typing she worked until she wrote a book that she hopes everyone will be as excited about as she is.

Cambria is obsessed with werewolves and is terrified of chickens (they are creepy!)She is an animal lover that would choose coffee over food and her favorite TV show is the Vampire Diaries (Hell-O Damon!)

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