Wanna Green Bean: These Cupcakes Suck.

21 May 2008

These Cupcakes Suck.

No really, these cupcakes are really bad. They started out as a good idea. Dark chocolate cupcakes filled with tasty peanut butter goodness, like a reese’s cup, but cake like. I couldn’t even finish taking pictures of this horrible horrible cupcakes.

I’ll share some pictures with you but I don’t have the heart to post the recipe.

It started all good. A basic chocolate cake recipe.

Mix the ingredients by the muffin method, and stir.

Mmmm tasty chocolate batter.

Pop them in a 350 oven for about 20 minutes.

This is where it began to all go wrong. So wrong!

I did a checkup about half way through baking (just turning on the light not opening the door). They looked fine. Rising, beginning to get that little dome.

Alas, when I took them out, they had sunk in the middle –

I said oh well! I wasn’t about to waste a whole batch of cupcakes because they sunk. I was gonna poke a hole in them and fill them anyways. This way, I figure the little dip is just there to fill!

And I made the tasty peanut butter frosting. The frosting consisted of butter, peanut butter, confectioners sugar, and milk. Oh yeah, tasty. (This still tasted good. Recipe at the end.)

It should have been a sign when my first makeshift piping bag blew up in my hand. But I kept truckin.

Then I filled the cupcakes with tastiness.

But then I tried them. The frosting was good. The cupcakes though….the cupcakes….

They were heavy, thick, too moist, too sticky, too gross.

I ended throwing them all out.

It made me sad :(.

But then I ate some more frosting (which still tasted good), and took a picture of the puppy chewing on the steelers.

The end.

Peanut Butter Frosting:

1/2 cup butter
2 cups smooth peanut butter
2 cups confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)
3 Tbsp milk

Blend together the butter and peanut butter until smooth.

Slowly add in the confectioners sugar about 1/4 cup at a time. Add the milk as needed, only if the mixture begins to get stiff while adding the sugar.

When everything is combined whip for about 3 minutes until light and fluffy.

Do not eat in one sitting.