Cover yourself in chocolate glory

[beelikej]

Don't get me wrong: I really like being on my own, but sometimes I wish my sexlife was like fanfiction. *sighs* Alas, I don't get to spend all day fiddling with a significant other, so I have other ways to entertain myself. Yesterday I made chocolate cupcakes with raspberry frosting and white chocolate sprinkles. That was fun and I ended up with chocolate covered bowls and spoons to lick, yay!

Now, just to be clear: this is NOT a continuation of the cupcake experiment from 2010. But *someone* (St. Nick) gave me a box with ingredients plus instructions and obviously I'm not one to waste a promise of chocolate goodness.

It was reminiscent of my previous cupcake baking experience though. Plus this time I got to use a pipingbag. *insert insane laughter*



All I had to add was butter, oil, milk and an egg.
(I had set up my fancy cups, but decided to use the paper cups that came with the box)


Not gonna lie: I almost put the butter in the mix too, but found out just in time that was supposed to go with the frosting. Pfew.


I swear I divided the batter equally; I don't know why the cups are all of a sudden these different shapes. What the hell?


While the cakes were supposedly baking, I mixed the frosting powder with the soft butter. I was a little weary, because it seemed to be all lumpy, but after a while it did become an 'even' mass of pink goo, woohoo!


Tadaah: two round cupcakes, one not so round, and three -ehm- ovals? *takes a bow* Also: I totally managed to get the goo in the pipingbag without airbubbles, ha!


Ahem, but then I cut too big a hole and didn't realize I could have practiced piping swirls over the bowl... I had already finished these disastrous pink turds, when rabidfan kindly explained this to me;) - if there ever is a next time, I'm totally gonna ask her for help before I start.


Even the generous amount of white chocolate sprinkles couldn't cover up this disaster. Not all of them were completely baked either; despite the extra ten minutes I left them in the oven. Meh.


BUT THEY ALL TASTED PRETTY GOOD, SO THERE :-P


Oh, speaking of fiddling and fanfiction: I send my finished artwork for the john_w_bigbang to my author. Hope she likes it. *bites lip* All will be revealed in about two weeks!

Comments

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

When you use the paper cups you have to put them in a muffin tin to help them keep their shape. That wouldn't have happened with your fancy reusable muffin cups. Still, in the end it's how they taste that counts. That's my motto, anyway.

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

It's hilarious how ignorant I am: I was determined to use my own cups but then I started to worry about not following the intructions on the box to the letter, which I thought meant using all the stuff that was provided as well. The weird shapes made me giggle a lot though, so that was good. :-D

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

Trust your instincts! No, but seriously, lots of people work really hard to get those crazy carved shapes out of cake, so maybe you're on to something. ;)

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

You're improving! Muffin tins would have given you nice, even shapes that would probably have cooked thru a little easier but no biggie! I'm a big believer in taste first, appearance later!

Keep up the practising! There should be more chocolatey goodness in the world!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Ahw, thank you. See, I have a muffin shaped baking thingie (that holds nine) and those separate cupcake holders (all gifts, my family has a weird sense of humour;) and I was wondering: can I put the paper cups in either one of those, or do I pour the batter straight in? Because things get messy with the latter method, but I worry that the extra layer of paper may keep the heat out? My oven already requires adjusted baking times.

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

You can definitely use the liners (that's what the paper things are called!) in the muffin tin. With the seperate silicon liners? I'm not sure.

This calls for more (delicious) experimenting!

I remember that you have a counter-top oven, yes? That isn't ideal for baking, as you've discovered. I'm afraid you'll have a lot of trial and error before you get perfect results. Fortunately, imperfect results taste as good as perfect ones!

[sillie]

As long as the cupcakes taste good... in the end, that's all that matters. :D

Oh man, you're fast. I got hit by a massive case of artblock which I'm slowly crawling out off, so I'm still at the starting stage of my artwork for john_w_bigbang. /o\ Excited to see what you've come up with though. :D

Afdgh... sorry for all the edits!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

That's true, but just once I would like to make them as pretty as yours, and surprise myself;)

I started on my artwork right after claiming and have been working on my design for the past three weeks, but I think it's good to go now. (I hope the author agrees, I sent her updates on the sketching proces every weekend)

Good luck with your artwork! (I didn't know you participated in this challenge! Very curious to see your John/Jeff:)

[eledhwenlin]

Hee. When you only use the paper cups, you use two for stability. Or, y'know, use your fancy ones. ;)

But the main point is them tasting good! :)

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

But there were only six cups in the box, don't confuse me! /o\

Hey, if taste is the standard, next time I will only stick to making the batter *grins* Who needs baking when licking the spoon is already yummie:)

[tanisafan.livejournal.com]

Heeeee! I bought these multicolored pens recently that were meant for decorating cookies, and not only did my flowers TOTALLY not look like flowers, but the food coloring also made my cookies less yummy than they were without the decoration. Booooo. So, at least yours were super tasty!!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

OOoh yes, I bought those pens once too, they are a total disaster!

I was glad I was at least rewarded with chocolately goodness in the end:)