Hi
everyone!
I hope you
all had a great weekend! We are moving next weekend so life is going to get a
bit harried but I hope/plan to not eat out for too many meals and still be able
to enjoy homecooked meals sitting on the floor and having an indoor picnic. If
you’re a guest coming over this week, maybe you should plan to expect that ;)
Last week
was a really fun week in my kitchen. I typically only make cookies, bars,
muffins, and scones in our kitchen on any given week but I had several occasions to make something a little more time and mind-intensive. First on that list
were two dozen cupcakes I made for a friend’s friend’s baby shower. The colors
were adorable (light pink and pale green) and I kept with the color theme by choosing
strawberry frosting and pale green vanilla buttercream frosting for the
cupcakes.
I really
love using real fruit in desserts and was appalled to find that most of the
strawberry cupcakes I looked at online were made with strawberry jam or no strawberry
at all! I finally found one that I loved because of the fact that it had real
strawberries in it and even more because it was a recipe for 6
cupcakes. Of course, I doubled it, but it would be a nice recipe to go back to
for a small dinner party. One of the reasons I don’t make cupcakes is because I
have no need for 12 of them!
These
chocolate cupcakes were AWESOME. I‘ve used Ina Garten’s recipe before with
great success (moist, cocoa-y and just the right texture) but these were even
better because of the olive oil. With almost everything I bake, I use
high-quality ingredients because you CAN taste the difference. I usually use
Ghiradelli cocoa (as I did this time) or something from King Arthur’s or
Surfas, the local cooking supply store in Culver
City
Definitely
two winning recipes! I also love that the recipes didn’t make a ton of
buttercream. I felt like it was just the right amount for each cupcake (I prefer
1 part frosting to 2 parts cupcake and stores usually reverse that ratio).
I’ll be
back tomorrow with a delicious dessert recipe for the summer J
Strawberry
Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting
Chocolate
Cupcakes (no eggs - just apple cider vinegar and olive oil!)
Vanilla
Buttercream
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