Rutter's Kitchen-Cheesy Tortellini Spinach Bake & Easy Vanilla Cupcakes

 Ashley is fixing the Tortellini Bake & Dana is working on the cupcakes and frosting.

 Here's the Tortellini Bake fresh out of the oven.

 Here's our meal ready to serve up!

 Cupcakes all baked up.

 Dana's masterpiece :)

 Dana followed the recipe for the Buttercream Frosting.  She made the recipe and then took half of it and made it the chocolate version.  Then she swirled the frosting on the cupcake :)

 Here's one that I did with just the plain buttercream frosting and some sprinkles.

Here's our group enjoying the meal.  We thought everything was good, but found the lemon too strong for us in the Tortellini Bake.  I saw that other's felt the same way after reading reviews of this recipe.  We used a frozen version of the Cheese Tortellini and thought they tasted really good.  We did use bacon in the casserole instead of the pancetta, as that is what I had.    The cupcakes tasted really good.  We thought that they kind of tasted & had the texture like angel food cake.  We also had a tossed salad and garlic bread with our meal.  Maybe omitting the lemon zest would help with the strong lemon flavor ;)