• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
    • Bio
    • Work With Me
    • Disclosure
    • Press and Recognition
  • Recipes
    • Recipe Index
    • Roundups
    • Top 10
    • Holiday
  • Travel
    • Tips
    • Things To Do
    • Hotels
    • Restaurants
  • Fun
    • Gift Ideas
    • Pets
    • Military
    • Parties
    • Disney
    • Crafts
    • Printables
  • Parenting
    • Ava and Stella
    • Breastfeeding
    • Pregnancy
  • Cooking Videos
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

For the Love of Food

My Favorite Buttercream Frosting and ShayShay’s Cupcakes Giveaway!

April 7, 2014 14 Comments

1.1K shares
  • 7
 
Cupcakes have always been a favorite treat in my house but I don’t always have time to bake. Luckily last year I discovered my town’s hidden gem: ShayShay’s Cupcakes! This family run business makes gourmet cupcakes, cakes, breads, and whoopie pies. They’re conveniently located in Leesville, LA, their prices are affordable (a steal actually!), and I love how they offer different creative flavors every day!
 
I first teamed up with ShayShay’s last year for Ava’s 1st Birthday Cake Smash and since then I have been a loyal customer buying the occasional cupcake or whoopie pie when I really have a craving and recommending them to all my friends!
They now offer cupcake bouquets and my sweet husband had one delivered to us for our anniversary last month!
Cupcake Bouquet from ShayShay’s Cupcakes
 
 Their were about a dozen cupcakes in the bouquet along with pretty flowers and a hand painted flowerpot.
Ava and I shared a couple at home and brought the rest to Florida to share with my (cupcake loving) family. My husband knows the way to my heart is food! Good job, baby!
 
We celebrated our anniversary with a date over Skype. I mailed him a Hickory Farms snack box and sparkling cider and I ate the same thing at home. We made a toast to many more happy years together!
 
Scroll down below to see My Favorite Buttercream Frosting recipe from ShayShay’s along with some basic cupcake frosting tips. Then enter our giveaway to win a Jumbo Cupcake Cake from ShayShay’s Cupcakes!
Enter to win this cupcake cake from ShayShay’s Cupcakes below!
 

 

 

My Favorite Buttercream Frosting

Not too sweet, not too rich, but just right!
Recipe from ShayShay’s Cupcakes

 Ingredients:

  • 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp heavy whipping cream
  • gel food coloring of your choice

Directions:

 

  1. Beat the butter in a stand mixer until whipped.
  2. Add 2 cups of powdered sugar, a little at a time until incorporated.
  3. Add the vanilla. 
  4. Now slowly add the remaining 2 cups of powdered sugar.
  5. Finally, add the heavy cream if needed (to thin out).
  6. To add color, ShayShay’s mixes in a few drops of gel food coloring at the end.
* The longer you beat the frosting the smoother and creamier it will be.
 
 
 
 
 Using a #1 frosting tip in a piping bag, start in the middle and swirl around for a rose frosting design on your cupcakes!
 The ‘Rose” design. Simple, pretty, and perfect for spring!
 
 
 Using the same tip, you can also create the more classic swirl design.
 Classic and fun! You can’t go wrong with the “Swirl” design.
 
Try these designs at home and fancy up your cupcakes! Rose (L) and Swirl (R).  
 
 
 
 
 
   a Rafflecopter giveaway
 
1.1K shares
  • 7

Filed Under: Desserts, Restaurant Copycat Tagged With: baking, buttercream. cupcakes

Previous Post: « Springtime Pink Velvet Chocolate Chip Crinkle Cookies
Next Post: Cupcake Shoes and a Giveaway! »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. tina vaughn

    April 7, 2014 at 11:22 pm

    yummy Cupcakes and pretty 🙂

    Reply
  2. Britany Fitch

    April 8, 2014 at 12:03 am

    Love their cupcakes! I think m&m are my favorite. Strawberry cheesecake are delicious too 🙂

    Reply
  3. Rebelgirl

    April 8, 2014 at 12:37 am

    Peanut Butter! YUM YUM!!!

    Reply
  4. Anissa Lathrom

    April 8, 2014 at 12:46 am

    I Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee me some ** Cherry Limeade ** Cupxakes from ShayShay's

    Reply
  5. Anonymous

    April 8, 2014 at 5:13 am

    Out of all the cupcakes I have tried from shayshay's cupcakes the banana pudding would have to be my favorite flavor.. Thank you for all the cupcakes !!

    Reply
  6. Crystal

    April 8, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    I actually really love Key Lime cupcakes, they are super yummy!

    Reply
  7. tina vaughn

    April 8, 2014 at 11:54 pm

    Your High Heels are cute we are making them for our Come and Go Avon /ShayShay Party 🙂

    Reply
  8. Hannah Conrad

    April 10, 2014 at 1:05 am

    I tried some Cherry Limeade cupcakes a while back that Anissa got and they were amazing! I haven't been able to look at other cupcakes the same since then.

    Reply
  9. Anonymous

    April 10, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    Yum! I love all cupcake flavors 🙂

    Reply
  10. Anonymous

    April 10, 2014 at 11:44 pm

    Chocolate or mocha are my favs.

    Reply
  11. Anonymous

    April 11, 2014 at 12:45 am

    Chocolate is my favorite

    Reply
  12. jackie w

    April 12, 2014 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks for sharing your buttercream recipe! Been looking for a tasty recipe that works down here.

    Reply
  13. Caprice Allen

    April 14, 2014 at 3:35 am

    So excited to try out this frosting. Yummy!

    Reply
  14. Nia

    April 14, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    The best cupcakes in town! Love the frosting

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Follow Me

PhotobucketPhotobucketPhotobucket

Photobucket

My Family


Nicole with her husband Ashton and daughters Ava and Stella

Search My Blog!

Fun On Instagram

Open
Well, we made it 8 years with my wild child with no broken bones...until skate night last night. Stella has a small fracture on her finger and had to get a splint at the hospital today. But in true Stella fashion, it is not slowing her down! #wildchild #mamasgirl #brokenbone #bravegirl #wildone
Open
Beautiful weekend with the family! Monarch Fest, Flower Festival, thrift stores, Italian food, grilling out at home, Indian food, and puppy snuggling! #weekendvibes #makingmemories #nwarkansas #familyfun
Open
Happy Grandparents Day to Oba and Papa from their girls! What wonderful memories we have made...and many more to come! @penningerluciana #grandparentsday #memories #familylove
Open
Today on the blog I am sharing over 35 Festive and Delicious Pumpkin Flavored Drinks just in time for fall! From cocktails and coffees to shakes and warm and cozy beverages, this roundup features all your pumpkin flavored favorites! 🎃☕️#fortheloveoffoodblog  #pumpkinseason #falldrinks #pumpkinrecipes #fall 
....
https://www.4theloveoffoodblog.com/35-festive-and-delicious-pumpkin-flavored-drinks-for-fall/
Open
Happy #NationalReadaBookDay ! 📚
So many bookstores, so little time! #booklovers #bookstagram #bookstore
Open
Labor Day is over and now it's all about fall, right? Fall flowers, coffee, and all my fave autumn colored comfy clothes today. Happy fall, y'all! 🍁 ☕️ 🎃 
#fallfever #tuesdaythoughts #fallstyle
Open
We always have fun at #FirstFriday in downtown Bentonville! Thanks @russellstoverus for the 360 video & free chocolate! 🙄 Also why is my mouth always open?! 🤦‍♀️ #RSC100 #BentonvilleFirstFriday #RussellStover #weekendvibes #momandme #chocolatelovers #Bentonville
Open
Happy Labor Day Weekend! If you're  looking for an easy recipe or two to throw on the grill (or even bake in the oven), these tasty foil pack meals are an easy option for dinner and even dessert!
...
#labordayweekend #foilpackets #foilpacketdinner #grilling #fortheloveoffoodblog #summerrecipes
🍽 🥘🍽🥘🍽🥘🍽🥘🍽🥘🍽🥘 https://www.4theloveoffoodblog.com/30-delicious-and-easy-foil-pack-recipes/
Open
📚 We had a fun, sunny, book filled summer! My girls completed a whopping 9 summer reading programs across our local area! I am so proud that they have a  true love of reading at their young ages. For #WhatchaReadingWednesday I'm sharing this book, "101 Books To Read Before You Grow Up". It is filled with many of our favorites and many more to add to our growing list of soon to read books!
Here are our favorite books from the list:
Ava: "Tuck Everlasting"
Stella: "Charlotte's Web"
Me: "Where the Red Fern Grows"
What children's classics do you recommend? 
📖 📕 📘 📗 📓 📚 
#currentlyreading #summerreading #booklove #booksofinstagram #booktok #kidsbooks #101bookstoreadbeforeyougrowup #librarylove #bookstoread #books #bookrecommendations
Follow on Instagram

Popular Posts

Crock-Pot Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham

Crock-Pot Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham for the Holidays

Chef Salad on a Stick

Crock-Pot Rotisserie Chicken

Crock-Pot Rotisserie Style Chicken

Biscuit and Gravy Casserole

Biscuit and Sausage Gravy Casserole

Duck Dynasty Potatoes

Duck Dynasty Mashed Potato Casserole

Poor Man’s Lobster | Butter Baked Cod

Subscribe via Email

Proud Military Wife

Archives

Footer

Spooky Fun!

Communities

 

© 2023 NICOLE HOOD FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD " Privacy Policy

DMCA.com Protection Status