I have decided to master the cupcake because awesome. If you are local to me I am sure you will be tasting the cakes of my labor sooner or later. This is also how I'm going to make the neighbors love me.
My goal is to discover the badassest chocolate recipe and vanilla recipe out there. I guess then I could branch out into all the frilly stuff like special fillings and garnishes, only not likely. I did however manage to make suitably star-shaped stars out of frosting on the latest batch. Using, um, the star-shaped frosting tip. I'm advanced!
During this quest I have learned that some people grease the cupcake pan, put in the paper liners, then spray oil on the insides of those. This is apparently a pretty common practice, to which I barf.
Here is an evolving list of the recipes I've tried so far, with commentary not really meant to be entertaining or insightful, sorry dudes, but just so I won't lose the recipes or forget which is which:
- Chocolate Cake #1: tasty but flat
- Yellow Cake #1: rises nicely but a bit plain
- Chocolate Fudge Frosting: winner!
