Birthday goodies

My birthday was a few months ago. I decided to have some fun decorating and making cupcakes! I wanted a simple theme so I went with M&M cupcakes, both inside and decorated on the outside!
I made one batch of cupcakes from this recipe from Cookies and Cake Recipe's.

Ingredients:

• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 1 package vanilla pudding mix
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1/3 cup oil
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup mini M&Ms
• 1 container of frosting

Directions:

1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two 12-cup muffin pans and one 6-cup with paper or foil liners.

2) In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, pudding, flour, milk, oil, and the eggs. Beat the mix with an electric mixer on low speed for about 30 seconds. Then, beat the mix for 2 minutes on medium speed, being sure to scrape the sides.

3) Fold in 2/3 cup of the mini M&Ms and then transfer the batter into the separate muffin cups filling 2/3 full. Drop a few more of the M&Ms over the cupcakes and the bake them 18-20 minutes, or until cupcakes are fully risen and golden brown on the tops.

4) Let the cupcakes cool thoroughly and then frost each cupcake with a dollop of the pre-made frosting. Sprinkle remaining M&M’s on top and then enjoy!

Sadly, these cupcakes came out quite dense. So I made a normal batch of yellow cake cupcakes and threw in M&M's.

The regular batch tasted much better. I had a blast dying the frosting and making the M's out of white chocolate that I froze. Hard work all in all, but these were a big hit. Except the red ones. I had to use a TON of the coloring to make it that red and it made the frosting taste a little funky. But this was fun over all.