Monday, June 14, 2010

This weekend I made my first batch of cupcakes from Martha Stewart's Cupcakes: Chocolate Malted Cupcakes with Fluffy Vanilla Frosting. BK ate FIVE before the day was over, so I'd call them a success!

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FIVE CUPCAKES! And the man is still skinny as a rail...I don't know how he does it!

My goal with these was two-fold. First, make a cupcake from scratch that tastes really, really good. Successful on that end, even though I thought they didn't taste very malty, BK and Clover did. Second, I wanted to use a recipe with frosting so I could practice my totally amateurish decorating skills. I didn't feel like messing with the Marshmallow Fondant yet, so this was a good starting point.

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It was easy enough to get started and can I just say, all my years of baking with a hand-held electric mixer were wasted moments. A Kitchen Aid mixer makes this stuff so much more fun and much more simple.

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I'm not a huge chocolate fan, but even I found this stuff pretty tempting!

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I decided to make the frosting blue...thought it looked pretty with the dark brown cupcake. I gave Clover a taste and she said, "mmmm...fluffy!" She didn't know it, but the frosting *is* called fluffy vanilla frosting!

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I made a cupcake wrapper with some scrapbook paper...I don't scrapbook, but I love looking at the papers in craft stores, so I'm glad to find a reason to buy some!

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Experiments with icing and tips. I need work, but all in all, I had a really good time with this project! I can't wait to make more...next up: Raspberry Pistachio Cupcakes.

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