Cupcake Bliss & Food 27 Jan 2008 08:08 pm
Malted Milk Ball cupcakes…
Sunday afternoons are becoming “cupcake experiment” days. I have visions of liquors and cream cheese insides with ganache toppings, fruity little chocolate conconctions that entice one to take one and hide in the closet while eating it, away from many small and interested children…..
Today’s foray was into something I dreamed about: Malted Milk Ball Cupcakes. I wanted a chocolate cupcake with a creamy malt butter cream frosting (not too sweet though) and topped with a whopper candy.
I got my chocolate cupcake recipe online again, though it was absolutely not chocolaty enough. I think I may try a chocolate pound cake next time. I want it to taste like CHOCOLATE…not just a sorta-cocoa-sweet-cake. That’s what this one tasted like…too sweet, not chocolate enough. Maybe the difference is in using melted chocolate rather than cocoa powder?
I mixed the whole thing by hand again, doing my “200 strokes” and she’s right…doing things the long way sometimes can be quite zen. (BTW…check out her great header; someone painted that and I think it’s groovy.)
For the frosting, I used butter, cream, powdered sugar, and malt powder. The result was not stiff enough and definitely toooooo sweet. I topped them with a whopper and more crushed whoppers.
The result? Cute and sweet.
I think next time I’ll try a malted cupcake with a dark chocolate frosting, topped with crushed whoppers. This result fell short of how they tasted in my dream ;-). Oh, and I didn’t take this with a sepia setting but it kinda looks like that ‘eh?
on 27 Jan 2008 at 9:55 pm 1.Sarah said …
You’re killing me here with all the talk of cupcakes, Tia! Let me know when you perfect the recipe and I’ll be your first customer!
on 27 Jan 2008 at 11:06 pm 2.anita said …
all these cupcakes…maybe you should start a business?