A couple weeks ago I signed up to participate in my friend Jessica (aka Jesstagirl), of Jessica Lynn Writes, Bake-N-Blog. Idea was to get a bunch of blogger to bake a cupcake from Ming Makes Cupcakes and all blog about it on the same day.
I signed up to make Cupcake No. 1…
And, I planned on baking it this past Sunday. The same weekend I also volunteered to make my sister’s birthday cake, a post for another day. Needless to say, there was a LOT of baking going down in my kitchen this weekend.
I signed up for the Bake-N-Blog because A) it sounded fun and B) I promised my CAD class I’d bring cupcakes on the first day of class. “A” keep me honest for “B” and vice versa.
Confession: I didn’t take pictures of my cupcake baking process, a la Pioneer Woman, as instructed by Jessica. Honestly, I forgot. Even more honestly, I had a cake baking disaster the day before with my sister’s birthday cake and I was afraid of any distractions.
If you read my blog regularly, you’ve probably noticed I can never follow a recipe exactly. I always need to switch it up somehow. So, here is a picture of my cupcakes right before I added my own twist… 
Here’s the thing, the cake I baked the day before for my sister called for Mascarpone icing. WAY more mascarpone icing than I ended up needing. I felt badly wasting all that mascarpone cheese and sugar AND using cream cheese and more sugar to make Ming’s icing. You see where this is going, huh? Yes, I used the icing from the other cake. It was equally tasty AND kinda “green” of me. Also, instead of adding cocoa powder I grated dark chocolate into the icing and mixed it in. It gave the icing a bit of texture and added flavor.
On top of each cupcake as placed 3 Espresso Pillows from Trader Joe's.
Are you interested in the cupcakes the other bloggers baked? Check out Jessica’s blog for links to their posts.
Thank you Jessica for hosting this Bake-N-Blog!
P.S. These cupcake were a BIG hit with my class. They are super moist (may have helped that I used heavy cream instead of milk) and not too chocolatey.
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September 15, 2010
Bake-N-Blog: Ming’s Cupcake No. 1
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11 comments:
That is a fun idea! Plus you can never go wrong with an excuse for cupcakes.
Oh they look delicious! I love how you grated dark chocolate into the icing instead of using cocoa powder!
OMG, yum!!! They look sooo good.
Yummy! I want to try these!
Haha, I totally cheated on taking pictures like PW, too. By the time this finally rolled around I was kinda over the whole thing, really, I just wanted to eat my cupcakes!
I really like that you used a different frosting, personally, because I'm not a huge fan of chocolate, so that would've been overload for me. I may have to make these sometime!
P.S. Thanks for participating :)
Yum! They look really good! :)
I also participated in the Bake-N-Blog. These cupcakes sounded SO good! And I like that you switched up the frosting! I might need to try making these sometime!
MMMMM I would like to eat these right now, thanks!!!!
Sounds deeeelish! And I am TOTALLY the same way - I don't ever follow recipes 100%...that just isn't fun! ;)
Those are some yummy looking cupcakes! I have the same problem of not being able to follow a recipe 100%. I always do something differently (either on purpose or accidentally). I like to think it makes it more of an adventure! ;)
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