Last weekend I went to Tahoe and stayed in a cabin with a bunch of people. When I say cabin, I don’t mean little 4 walled thing with 20 people crammed in. No, this place was insane… big enough that with 20 people it did not feel crowded. At all. Anyhow, remember my cupcake disaster where a dozen pink cupcakes jumped off of my counter in some sort of a cult suicide ritual? Well, those cupcakes were intended for the crowd in Tahoe, but their premature end left me disheartened but not down for the count. I packed a box of Duncan Hines brownie mix, a bag of Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mix, chocolate chips, heavy cream and butter, and dreams of these insanely decadent looking brownies from Bakerella (she used chocolate chip cookie dough, I opted for peanut butter because… I love peanut butter and chocolate). Brownies with peanut butter cookie dough baked into it topped off with chocolate ganache. How to describe it… decadent? Yes. Delicious? Yes. Bomb-diggity? Foshizzle.
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Tagged as: brownies, chocolate, cookies, good housekeeping baking, oops, peanut butter, snickerdoodle
At least, that’s what I decided to do. Work has gone a little sideways this week and today I needed to take a mental break. And I needed some chocolate. So on the drive home this evening, I thought about what I would bake. Not if I would bake, but what I would bake. It was an inevitability. Even in my sleep deprived state, the thought of baking up something sweet and lovely sounded simply therapeutic.
But what to bake? I’ve been thinking about a flourless chocolate cake for a while but today was not the day to try something completely new. No, I wanted simple. I wanted comforting. I wanted a cupcake. A happy, chocolate cupcake. I know I’ve already done chocolate cupcakes 2 ways recently and I did think maybe I should do a different kind of cake just to introduce a little variety… chiffon? yellow cake? lemon? red velvet? But no, I wanted chocolate and would not be persuaded otherwise.
So without further ado, here is the cupcake du jour:
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Tagged as: baking as therapy, chocolate, cupcakes, peanut butter
I think I am a little late to the party to actually enter the Iron Cupcake challenge for January (since I just decided today that I would try it out and did not request to be admitted to the group until just now… and the deadline for entry is tomorrow at noon Central time). BUT I decided to do the challenge anyway because it sounded like fun. The January ingredient is wine which did not at first make me think “cupcake”, but then a light went on… I love Zinfandel. And I love to eat chocolate with my Zinfandel. So I made devil’s food cupcakes with a kick.
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Tagged as: chocolate, cupcakes, devil's food, iron cupcake, iron cupcake wannabe, zinfandel
