Easy Blueberry Lemon Cupcakes AND Free Printable Toppers

SO moist and most importantly super easy!! Give these blueberry lemon cupcakes a try.

Blueberry & Lemon Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix together the following
1 box of white cake mix ( I used Pilsbury Classic White mix, with pudding)
1 can of blueberry pie filling
2 eggs
1 tsp lemon extract

Place cupcake wrappers in cupcake tin and fill each wrapper 1/2 full of cupcake batter. Bake for 18-20 minutes (depending on your oven). Be sure to check with a toothpick to see if they are done, the looks on these are deceiving and will burn before you know it.  When done, put onto a cooling rack then place in a container and put in fridge until ready to serve.

Lemon Buttercream Frosting
Beat together

1/2 cup of room temperature butter (soft, but not melted)
2-3 cups of powdered sugar (add slowly one cup at a time)
2 tsp lemon extract
2-3 Tbls whipping cream


Frosting should be light and fluffy. Add to chilled cupcakes right before serving. Refrigerate any left overs or if you need to double the batch of frosting if you like to pile it on to each cupcake!

 TFIOS fans, these printable cupcake toppers are now FREE to download through this post, The Fault In Our Stars Movie Premiere Party At Home. 

Enjoy & DFTBA!
Pamela

*Custom TFIOS themed confetti by The Flair Exchange

FREE Itty Bitty St. Patrick's Day Notes

Feeling lucky today? Well you should be, I have a FREE printable for ya!! St. Patrick's Day is coming up quickly so why not use these Itty Bitty notes to surprise a lucky someone. 

Write a little note inside, cut them up and use them for cupcake toppers, use them for tags, the choice is yours. 

Download your file below

Itty Bitty St. Patrick's Day Notes by Pamela Smerker Designs

Hope your day is LUCKY! 

DFTBA,

PS

*For personal non commercial use of course. 

Homemade Butterfinger Treats For Your Valentine

I love Butterfingers, especially FRESH ones. What better way to get FRESH ones then to make them yourself. You might be surprised like I was to find out what the ingredients are, just three ingredients! 

I used this recipe from Recipe Boy, only I cut it in half and instead of dipping chocolate I melted milk chocolate chips. TIP: If you find that your chocolate chips get a little thick add a teaspoon of shortening, that will help loosen up the chocolate to make coating easier. 

For this batch of Butterfinger balls, (it was actually an oops) I actually made the full batch (according to Recipe Boy) 2 cups of peanut butter and 2 cups of Candy Corn. I poured the melted mixture in a parchment lined 8' x 8" pan. I then covered them and put them in the fridge over night. They stayed really soft, so I turned the pan out onto a cutting board, cut mixture into 1" pieces then took those pieces and rolled them into balls. I tried melted semi sweet chocolate chips to cover these and they are so good. Since they were super soft, I have just kept them in the fridge and even cold these are nice and chewy when you bite into them. 

Wrap some up with this FREE tag I designed for D & P Celebrations (you can download the "For You Heart" tag here) A fun little treat for a friend or loved one this Valentine's day. 

DFTBA,

PS

New Year's Eve Party Free Printable Check List

Gee I think I had a bit too much fun this month creating free printables for D & P Celebrations, because here is ANOTHER! Are you feeling the love yet??? 

Hop on over to D & P Celebrations and grab your "FREE printable New Year's Eve Party Check List" now! NYE is less then two weeks away, are you throwing a party? IF so then hurry go download that list...you know you wanna!! 

While you are at it, check out my friend Melissa Newell's "Cocktails and Cheer" party feature. A fun night in for the ladies. 

DFTBA,

PS

FREE Printable Gift Giving Check List

I have found that check lists are the best way to keep myself organized. So I have created this gift giving check list to use for the holidays (could be used for birthdays all year as well).  

FREE DOWNLOAD from www.pamelasmerkerdesigns.com

Feel free to click the link below, download the file, print and use it yourself. 

"Making a List & Checking it Twice Gift Giving Check List DOWNLOAD"

Happy Holidays! 

DFTBA,

PS