The Cupcake Experiments

I'm on a roll. I've been in such a good mood last weekend that I baked two kinds of cupcakes. All from recipes that I've never used before.

White Cupcake+Brownies+Peanut Butter Frosting

I saw this recipe from All recipes again. It had such great reviews! But the recipe called for instant mixes. So, being such a glutton for punishment, I baked mine ALL from scratch.

For the brownie base, I used Alton Brown's recipe, which has never failed me (as long as I don't forget it in the oven!).

For the white cake base, I used a recipe from All Recipes.

For the Peanut Butter frosting, I used Wilton's recipe, will a lot less sugar. That's why the frosting's not as fluffy and pretty.

No one will eat them if I used all four cups of sugar!

The cupcakes turned out ok, the white cake baked differently though when I used a foil cupcake liner as opposed to a paper liner. They browned a bit more with the foil liners and there is a "sad streak" or some underbaked portion in the middle top part of the cake. Which usually is found on old fashioned pound cakes.

I have a few ideas to improve this recipe as well. Will keep you posted!



For my Devil's Food Cupcake, I used Martha Stewart's recipe. Which was great and super moist. I've never baked with sour cream before since I have a few trepidations, but this recipe put my fears at ease. I may never use another Devil's Food recipe ever again :-)

Wilton's Chocolate Buttercream recipe is the bomb! Be sure to use Dutch process Cocoa though, for that ultimate chocolatey smell and taste. As usual, I cut the powdered sugar WAY down, to reduce the sweetness. I can't pipe roses by doing that but, the icing will have the less "sawa" factor.

Do you hear that? ......

That's my jeans popping open.....

Back to Regular Programming

Back to regular programming.....

I've been baking up a storm these past two week ends. I got derailed in posting them with my little video stories, which I had so much fun making.

Anyway, I came across some interesting cupcake recipes on the net that caught my attention. I've been wanting to try out new ways to make cupcakes.

The first recipe that I tried, in time for Mother's Day, was the Chocolate Chip Cookie+Yellow Cake cupcake. I made a few changes and combined three recipes to come up with one unusual cupcake.

The original recipe came from All Recipes, as well as the chocolate chip cookie dough in the middle. For the yellow cake, instead of using a mix, I baked it from scratch, what else? I used the recipe from All Recipes also.

For the chocolate frosting, Wilton's Chocolate Buttercream was just perfect.

This cupcake is a bit time-consuming to make, with three kinds of recipes to combine and some freezing time for the cookie dough. However, it was easy enough to do.



I am ashamed to admit it, but the yellow cake recipe that I used came out a bit bland, and a bit dense, despite sifting the flour mixture three times. I would improve on this by using a vanilla cupcake recipe instead. I've had great success using Amy Sedaris' recipe and would use that next time.

Having a chocolate chip cookie dough in the middle was sheer genius though. Very unusual and such a novelty.Mycupcake came from the fridge that's why it looks so rigid here in the photo.



In my opinion, cupcakes are best eaten at room tempreture. Except for those with a whip cream topping.

I had a few cookie dough left over and decided to bake them separately, as is. I know, such cuties, right?



I vow to perfect this Chocolate Chip Cookie+Yellow Cupcake soon :-)

In the meantime, feast your eyes on some oatmeal cookies that I also baked from scratch.

Pasasalamat

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