I♥cuppycakes!

♪Yippy aye yay, Mini Sirloin Burger Cupcakes♪♫

I know you’ve all heard the song right? The Jack-In-The-Box one.

It’s one of those commercial that YOU.JUST.CAN’T.GET.OUT.OF.YOUR.HEAD no matter how hard you try. Trust me. I’ve done everything! Hypnosis. Britney Spears on iPod repeat. Pounding my head against the wall. Nothing works. So I just admit defeat…

♪Way out West [echo the same words]
There’s a story told [echo the same words]
About a bunch of cowboys
Tiny & Bold Riding Tall
Tall in the saddle
Herding cows the size of schnauzers, but they’re cattle
Yippyayeyay Mini Sirloin Burgers
Yippyayeyay Mini Sirloin Burgers
Yippyayeyay Mini Sirloin Burgerrrrrs…..Yeah!♪♫

… and wave the white flag of surrender.

Since the NBA playoffs are on 24/7 at my home right now I have heard The Mini Sirloin Burger commercial (and The Most Interesting Man, Dos Equis one) over a million times. Does the NBA know how to channel it’s audience or what? At first it’s annoying but after the 100th time, it’s kinda catchy!

Oh come on! You know it is. You’re probably singing it right now. Don’t lie.

So for our annual Memorial weekend BBQ, I decided I had to make a burger cupcake. And btw you haven’t lived until you’ve heard your husband singing ♪Mini Sirloin Cuppies♪♫ while vacuuming the house.

Is the song stuck in your head now? Good! My job is done.

Happy Memorial Day readers.

I’m spending the day with my favorite veteran. My father-in-law. ♥

Recipe adapted from Smiley’s Sweets & Creations

Makes about 24 burger cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

24 vanilla cupcakes
12 chocolate cupcakes
sesame seeds
clear vanilla extract
yellow fondant
your favorite frosting (I used cream cheese)
red and green food coloring (I used Ateco super red and leaf green)

INSTRUCTIONS

Bake vanilla and chocolate cupcakes per your favorite recipe. Let cool completely.

Cut each vanilla cupcake in half to make the “buns”. Brush top of one vanilla half with clear vanilla extract and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Cut the top off each chocolate cupcake and discard (or eat them like me!) Then cut each chocolate cupcake in half. One chocolate cupcake=2 burger patties.

To make cheese: Roll out yellow fondant about 1/8″ thick. Cut square shape with 2.5″x2.5″ square cookie cutter.

To assemble cupcake—
Using a Wilton 97 leaf tip and green frosting, pipe the “lettuce” on the bottom half of vanilla cupcake. (I used a cake turntable to make piping easier.) Place chocolate cupcake “patty” on top of the lettuce. Then add fondant “cheese”. Using a Magic Tip 2A (or your favorite round tip), pipe the red frosting for the “tomato” on top of the “cheese”. Top with vanilla cupcake sesame “bun”.

ENJOY!

Husband rating: A+
He couldn’t get over the cupcake looking like a little burger. Since he’s a sucker for cream cheese frosting, he totally loved it! (But he didn’t like the fondant.)

Wifey rating: A+
So fun to make and I love how they turned out! Since I am not a big fondant fan I didn’t eat the fondant but maybe next time I make these I might have to try the marshmallow fondant and see if that tastes better.

Other rating: A+
All our friends and family raved about the burger cupcakes. So many of them took pictures! At first no one wanted to eat them b/c they were … “too cute to eat” but eventually the cupcake craving kicks in and everyone dug in! Except my godson, who was too afraid to eat the burger b/c he didn’t believe it was really a cupcake. HA HA!