Chocolate Cupcakes and More Chocolate
These chocolate cupcakes were so much fun to bake and decorate. Looking at a fresh-baked cupcake or a crumb-coated layer cake … it feels like I have a blank canvas, the possibilities are endless. So this is what unfolded with a late-night batch of cupcake baking.
Some of the toppings I had on hand included: chopped salted peanuts, Hanuta cookies, Snickers bars, Twix bars, Reeses cups, Hershey Kisses, and Ferrero Rocher bon bons.
I had also prepared some dark chocolate ganache, caramel sauce, vanilla buttercream, and whipped chocolate ganache buttercream.
After these were nearly finished, I had a couple cupcakes leftover. What to do… And then it hit me, our family motto, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
Here is … Death by Chocolate Cupcake.
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| A chocolate cupcake with a ring of dark chocolate ganache… |
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| …a small swirl of whipped chocolate ganache buttercream… |
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| …and a Hershey’s Kiss topper. |
These cupcakes were baked for no special reason. When that’s the case, I look for avenues to give them away. Fortunately, I know some cyclists that enjoy cupcakes as a post-ride refuel.
I love that I get to be creative. And I love that my life partner is board with that idea, too.
