A cupcake for your thoughts?
Three day weekends are such teases. But man was it a glorious three-day weekend.
Let’s see, so my cupcake trial. I had high expectations for it actually. In fact, I was so gung-ho that I had planned to make two different kinds of cake: a vanilla cupcake and a banana cupcake. All was well until I got home after work. After going hard all day [a few of us are shuffling offices so I had to help my boss pack up his office. Let’s just say there was a lot of stuff crammed into a fairly small space], I was surprised to find myself exhausted by the time I got home. So much so, I was only able to muster up the energy to make vanilla cupcakes. Good thing too because I ran out of cupcake liners as well!
Cough it up to poor planning [especially since I was just at Target staring at cupcake liners!] but it is what it is. I ended up with 17 edible cupcakes [the remaining seven fell victim to the no-liner zone. Poor cupcakes.
I ended up making the frosting the next day to unmiraculous. The consistency was fine on the sides of the bowl but not so in the middle. I was disappointed but thankfully I still had a tub of store bought frosting hanging out in the cabinet after the first failed attempt at banana cupcakes earlier in the year. I whipped that out, added some almond extract and called it a day. My failure at buttercream [yet again] was a minor set back but hey, not everyone makes everything perfectly. Not even Martha Stewart.
I did get some tips from Tam though. Apparently I’m supposed to sift the powdered sugar? She said this as if it were common knowledge. Ahem, but it was not written into the recipe I was following! Bakers.
I’ll try the frosting again because I really want to figure this out. It’d be nice to be able to whip up my own frosting instead of having to remember to buy a tub at the store.
There will be more cupcaking [mis]adventures to come. I’m really amped on nailing this recipe. So much so that I’m even contemplating buying a banana crème flavoring oil to add to my frosting. Ooooh, or maybe the cake! See, the possibilities are endless.
I could go for a cupcake right about now. A vanilla one would be awesome.