IMBB 13: My Little Cupcake

I love cupcakes.  I am reasonably sure that this has to do with the frosting to cake ratio.  I also like that it is self contained food, it is one unit, like a burrito or an empanada.  I am, however, not much of a baker, and hoping to outdo the impossibly fantastic cupcakes that Chris made for my birthday in September (171 shopping days left, people!), I made Orange Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Lemon Cream-Cheese Frosting and a Star On Top and Sprinkles, the recipe for which is in my Gourmet cookbook, but can also be found here.

I changed the recipe a bit, I added buttermilk in place of half of the milk because I hear that that makes cupcakes better.  But really, what the hell do I know about baking?  I also changed the frosting, and made a lemon cream-cheese frosting instead of the chocolate ganache that the recipe recommends.  This was a mistake.  The cupcake either needed a chocolate or even a vanilla frosting.  Oh well, they were still pretty good, though they could have used more orange peel in the batter, it should have been orangier.

Thanks to Maki for hosting Is My Blog Burning 13!!!

Comments

[Fatemeh]

Hmmmm... now, tell me, did you HAVE those cutesy little paper liner thingies in your kitchen or did you have to buy them??

Oh, btw - LOVE the Food News typelist - when'd you add that??

[Molly]

Dude, I almost got the Barbie ones, it was a tough choice.

Yeah, news, we'll see how it goes.

[santos]

i dunno. those sort of look fantastic to me as they are.

[Lyn]

Too right! It IS all about the frosting to cake ratio! Yours look perfectly scrummy!