Party Appetizers!

Last night, we had a Lee family game night, which is something that we try and do every month or every other month. My husband's side of the family all gets together and we eat and play games, typically Rook is our game of choice. *There's an odd chill in the air...beware the eerie black bird...Caw! Caw!* Sorry, a little joke in our family. Since I was hosting game night at our house this month, I decided not to do a full on dinner, but just do appetizers and have everybody bring snacks and stuff. I figured this would be the best way for us to eat carefully. His family brought veggie trays and fruit salad and pita chips with hummice and and I made my yummo glazed brownies (which everyone LOVED, even those not trying to eat healthy...which goes to show those brownies are yummy to all!) I also made three different recipes of savory cupcakes, but made them half the size as the recipe calls for and cooked them in mini muffin tins!

They were so yummy! I'll admit, it was a lot of work trying to make three totally separate recipes of savory cupcakes all to be ready at the same time, and I didn't manage my time the best, thankfully, most of them were late getting to our house, because I certainly wasn't ready when I said I would be. :) But with my helpful hubs as a sous chef who did all my cheese and veggie grating and measuring stuff that he felt he could be trusted with, we got them all done! I made mini french dip cupcakes, mini white vegetable lasagna cupcakes (for the vegetarians in our family, which I totally loved as well!) and mini taco cupcakes. The picture doesn't show all that I put out, just what fit at one time on my serving tray. A normal cupcake recipe makes 8, so in a mini muffin pan, each made 16, take that time 3 recipes and I had 48 mini cupcakes set out for snacking! I think we had maybe 4 or 5 left at the end of the night, I'd say they were a hit. And each little cupcake rang in at 2 points a piece! It was a fun and kinda fancy looking appetizer to put out...highly recommend it for your next party!

The French Dip cupcakes recipe can be found right here: French Dip Cupcakes. To make them as minis, you use a mini muffin tin, and instead of double layering all the incrediants, you just single layer them and spread them out evenly among the 16 muffin cups. First down is the wonton wrapper, then evenly divide the roast beef mixture, then evenly sprinkle the mozzarella cheese on top. Pop them in the oven at 375 for 12-14 minutes.

I will be getting the taco cupcakes and white vegetable lasagna cupcakes recipes up sometime this week!