Cupcake Bliss 20 Feb 2008 07:00 am
Oui…My Little Cupcake…You Make Me Love You!!
The recent run down:
These started out as “He Never Brought Me Flowers Anyway” cupcakes but weren’t bittersweet enough in the end. They are instead, “My Dad Loves Me Cupcakes”. He loves carmely-nutty-goo :-).
We used silicon heart cups for them. I didn’t like these so much… the bottoms are sure-enough heart shaped but the tops are round. I did some with white papers as well and still like these for their simplicity best.
This sunday’s experiment involved dark chocolate and raspberries….pretty classic. I made a devil’s food cupcake, topped with a raspberry syrup made from fresh berries, and a chocolate Italian whipped buttercream frosting.
CRITICAL ERROR….using raspberry extract in the frosting. ICK. I have been away from artificial flavors for long enough so that I can’t tolerate them now. The only way to get REAL raspberry flavor is from a real berry. This attempt with the fake stuff just ruined the whole batch of frosting and drove me to scrape clean the top of my cake before eating it. And to wit….the dumb cake was DRY too. All in all, not so great a batch this time.
on 24 Feb 2008 at 4:08 pm 1.Living-Deliberately.com » “There’s no place like home” Cupcakes: Chocolate cake + chocolate frosting = final success in the best Chocolate Cake recipe EVER. said …
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