Today, it is Justin's birthday. With much pissing and moaning (on his part), I offered to make him cupcakes - and so I did. But, being a the fool that I am, I made a terrible choice: I baked from an untested recipe, on a deadline.
I find cupcakes, and cake in general, to be a challenge not because I can't get it to puff evenly or it's grainy, rather, there's always something just a little off. Just so much that I feel like I've failed. Over, and over, and over...
This time was no different. The batter was more like dough, and seemed to lack sufficient chocolatiness, and the cane sugar made them kind of...crunchy. I baked half in a conventional muffin tin (and didn't fill the cups enough so there was no muffin-toping) and half in Chris' Muffin-Top tin - a cute baking devide that bakes only muffin tops with no bottom. I have only tried one of the tops so far and found it too, uh, something.
Then there was the frosting. Oh, the disappointment of the frosting. It's supposed to hide the mediocrity of the cupcakes with it's creamy, fluffy goodness but instead, looked like thick orange-flavored melted butter with granules. The whole thing was a relative disaster.
That said, presentation cannot be ignored when it comes to quantifying the enjoyment a dish can offer. Even the tastiest cake is hard to sell, lopsided and crumbling. My last resort with these tiny failures was the decoration, which I think I did rather well.
If you care to see if you have better luck with the recipe, it's from this blog.
Good luck!
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