Thanksgiving Cooking Contest

This is my (MeLlichenx3 or MelanieBearySmart4) entry:

Apple Cupcakes With Apple-Meringue-Buttercream



I made this cupcakes for my mother. When she came home from work I surprised her with this cupcakes.
I chose this recipe because it's very healthy. Plus, apples remind me of the fall. Apples contain many vitamins which help us to stay healthy. So I thought these cupcakes will help my family to strengthen our immune system.
I put grated apples (from our own apple tree), oat flakes, chopped almonds, flour, a pinch of salt, vegetable oil, cinnamon, eggs and cane sugar in the pastry. It was easy to make the pastry. I have never done a buttercream before so this was my first time. The buttercream with apple jelly should have been solid, but I think something went wrong and it turned out really liquid. I used little marzipan fruits as a decoration.
My mother was very happy when she came home. The supcakes tasted delicious even if the buttercream wasn't that perfect. I had fun doing the cupcakes and even more fun eating them together with my happy Mom.

I made, well, i think it's called marshmallow salad, strawberry cheesecake, and flan (mexican pastry). it was for everyone on thanksgiving, i really wanted to help this year. I had never tried making this stuff, so i asked my sister to give me some of her recipies.
Marshmallow Salad: you get marshmallows (they don't have to be rainbow ones) cool whip, diced peaches, and coconut shreds. you put them in a bowl, then you mix them all together, it's really simple.
Strawberry Cheesecake: I got Honey maid graham crackers, cool whip, cream cheese, strawberry preserves. you get the cool whip and cream cheese and mix them together until you like the taste. then you layer the graham crackers, but before each layer, you put the mixture of cool whip and cream cheese on an even layer, when your done you put the strawberry preserves on top. [it's also optional to add some sort of pudding in the mixture of cream cheese and cool whip. i recommend banana pudding.]
Flan(a little more complicated): i used white sugar, eggs, sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and vanilla extract. i mixed all that stuff together, until it was nice and creamy. i got a pan, and i put sugar in it, i melted it until it tunrned to a liquid, then i waited 'till it turned golden-ish. my mom did the baking because she was using an oven that i have no clue how to use. she put into the fridge afterward.