National Creamsicle Day!
August is a FUN month of National Food Holidays!

I have been enjoying the National food holidays during the month of August. Most recently National S'Mores Day brought back fond memories of childhood. Now with today being National Creamsicle Day I think back to days of hearing the Ice Cream truck outside playing it's music in our neighborhood and running outside as fast as I could to catch up to the truck and get an ice cream. As a child of the 80's I remember one of my favorites was the Pac-Man Ice Cream which had a gum ball as it's "eye!" Another close favorite was the Creamsicle.

Creamsicles are a frozen popsicle with a vanilla ice cream center covered with a orange flavored ice. Truly yummy, especially for orange lovers!

I wanted to capture that flavor of creamsicle in a baked product and I chose a cupcake. While I will not tell you the recipe because I created it myself, it is a tender delicious vanilla flavored cake topped with an orange buttercream. I used a fresh organic valencia orange for a little bit of it's zest and of course it's delicious juice to make a truly decadent orange frosting. I added a touch of orange gel food coloring and a garnished the cupcakes with little edible round sprinkles. I love an understated garnish on cupcakes. I'm not much for fondant and other stuff like that which is probably because I can't stand the flavor of it! 

Below are some pictures that I hope you will enjoy of the finished cupcakes. A friend of ours came to the house tonight and he gave these cupcakes his stamp of approval! 

I think these would be a fun cupcake for fall as well! Perhaps a little bit of orange flavor could be added to the cupcake base itself for an all orange cupcake. 

The inside of the cupcake is so moist and and not overwhelming in vanilla flavor, just a base cake that any flavor could be added to. Essentially a blank canvas of a cupcake if you will. 

HAPPY CREAMSICLE DAY! It's not too late to celebrate!