I would say that the morning was not a success, although we did have fun and learned what to do when you have a failure. The first problem was that the cupcakes (we made minis and regular) stuck to the pans. We hand anticipated some trouble and had greased and floured some of the cups, and just greased the others, but ALL of the cupcakes stuck.
But the cake tasted great - so we certainly didn't want to throw it away. Now was the chance to think creatively. Veronica thought the cupcake remnants looked like muffin tops (they did) and in keeping with our idea of having filled cupcakes, we decided to cut off the tops and sandwich two together with frosting and filling inbetween. Here are my two helpers, Jasmine and Veronica.
I had planned on using simple meringue buttercream and cherries for the filling, but Jasmine wanted to know if I could make some ganache, so we made some of that, too. The buttercream never really firmed up the way I had hoped (the kitchen was WAY too warm), so eating the cakes right away (no refrigeration) was perfect with the soft buttercream, cherries, chocolate cake and oozy ganache (like hot fudge!).
Next post, look for the recipes for chocolate cupcakes, frosting and icing that works!
2 comments:
You have a wonderful blog here. I am so happy I found it.
Hope you have a wonderful day!
The cupcakes look adorable. Wishing you a happy new year Penny!
LL
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