09 Aug
Black-Bottom Cupcakes
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It is seriously beyond me how I have never made these before. Especially considering they’re a hybrid of my two favorite sweets - chocolate and cheesecake, and honestly there’s really no way anything made of chocolate and cheesecake can be anything but spectacular. These cupcakes are no exception, as they take a super moist and intensely chocolate devil’s food cake and drop a cheesecake filling with chunks of bittersweet chocolate right in the middle. These rank way up there on the ladder of favorite things I have ever made. I was sitting outside for a bit while these were in the oven and when I came back into the house it smelled like I could lick chocolate off the walls - the aroma wafting from the oven completely permeated the house. Mmmm…
09 Apr
I am a Hero… A CUPCAKE HERO
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This was my first month entering the Cupcake Hero event over at quirky cupcake because, well, truth be told, I don’t consider myself very good at being creative in the kitchen. I can follow a recipe to a T, but when it comes down to creating something on my own I don’t feel very confident in my abilities (or my creativity). So imagine my shock when I open the round up and see that I’ve actually won!
The cupcake that I submitted was an Ambrosia Cupcake. This was created to adapt the popular salad that includes fruit cocktail, miniature marshmallows, coconut, and Cool Whip. We always had it a lot growing up, and it was one of the first things that I thought of when I thought of marshmallows!
I’m so very excited to get a tshirt with the ubiqitous Cupcake Hero logo on it, and will be sure to model it for everyone!
Head on over to the Cupcake Hero roundup to see what 51 (awesome turnout!) other people did with marshmallows and cupcakes!
28 Mar
Cupcake Hero: Ambrosia Cupcakes
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I’d first like to thank Laurie for still being my friend, as this is my first Cupcake Hero entry. I know, I’m a bad, bad friend.
This month’s ingredient theme for Cupcake Hero was marshmallow. The very first thing that came to my mind was smores, and I’m pretty sure that was the first thing that popped into about everyone else’s head. After seeing a number of smores entries show up in my Google Reader, I decided to rethink my approach. I was brainstorming all of the wonderful things that I have eaten that contained marshmallows in some way, shape, or form. A few popped into my mind, but I kept coming back to one - Ambrosia.
For those that have never had it, ambrosia is basically a “salad” of fruit cocktail, Cool Whip, coconut, and miniature marshmallows. My grandma used to make this all of the time around some holidays, but it mostly reminds me of Easter. It’s such a light dessert and Easter is typically the gateway holiday to warmer weather. So here we are, the week after Easter and I had to do something with marshmallows - Ambrosia Cupcakes it was!
These cupcakes are made with a base of fruit cocktail cake, then freshly whipped cream is piped into the centers (you’ll see that I didn’t quite pipe deep enough), topped with a marshmallow creme frosting, sprinkled with coconut, and, just for good measure, topped with a cherry. I had never made homemade marshmallow creme before and, wow, that’s dangerous to have sitting around! So good!
