Chinese New Year Cupcakes

Happy Be-lated Chinese New Year! I wanted to make some CNY themed cupcakes but I thought the year of the Horse themed cupcakes would be pretty darn hard. So I went to the next best thing... pretty cherry blossoms. I also threw in some cupcakes decorated with hearts as well for a mix.

For a more asian theme, I decided to make vanilla cupcakes with roasted black sesame buttercream frosting. I had some man power to help crush the black sesame (using an ad hoc mortar and pestle) which helped to bring out the nutty flavor from the black sesame.  The frosting tasted like black sesame ice cream. So Yum!!