Thursday, February 24, 2011

BAKED Sunday Mornings: Devil's Food Cupcakes with Angel Frosting

I've been dying for a chance to use these pretty cupcake wrappers, and was excited with the black and white theme of the cupcakes to make extra good use of the b&w damask!
For this recipe, I used TJ's Cocoa Powder and Chocolate disks, and subsituted TJs hot cocoa for the coffee (I'm not a coffee drinker!) in the recipe. It was exciting using my candy thermometer for this project, and I felt a little fancy bringing the syrup to "soft ball" stage and cooking the eggs as I whipped the frosting. I also broke out my birthday present from some of my girlfriends--a complete cake decorating kit! Despite a few desperate phone calls for instruction, it was virtually snag-free!
These little devils brought out my evil side, because the "angel" frosting was not my favorite party of this treat. I think I'd rather stick to buttercream with some almond extract, and I would go so far as to say these couldn't have been too chocolaty with a chocolate buttercream, either. Don't get me wrong, the devil's food had a deep, rich, and intense chocolate flavor, I just REALLY like Chocolate. The way they were felt a little too...hostess cupcake with twinkie filling for me.

Our neighbors had some last minute guests that stopped by, and since I had 24 cupcakes with very few eaters, we tossed some their way and the cute little girls giggled and oo-ed over the pink pearl toppers. It turned out that we had some spur-of-the-moment special guests, and the sister in attendance had her 12th birthday last weekend so we busted out the candles and made it a special birthday celebration just for her! We served the cupcakes with TJs Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, which was a perfect compliment to the moist cake.

10 comments:

  1. What beautiful cupcakes! Very "fancy" - and so glad you got a chance to decorate. I'm not a big fan of marshmallow frosting but it sure was easy to pipe! Twinkie filling - good comparison - I agree!

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  2. I love your second photo - it is a great shot of the marshmallow frosting. You decorated your cupcakes beautifully!

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  3. So cute! I think I'm going to make cup cakes next time as well.

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  4. I love your pink pearls! Fantastic job making some beautiful cupcakes!

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  5. I'm loving the cupcakes way too much...I'm baking them next. And I love seeing the decorating and the piping and all the fancy tips. I know your neighbors love you!

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  6. adorable! can't wait to make cupcakes next!!

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  7. Your frosting is luxurious. You did a beautiful job decorating.

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  8. I'm not a coffee drinker either but grabbed a cup of black coffee from Peet's for this. The cake didn't taste like coffee at all. I did the same thing - cupcakes!

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  9. Hi Janey! So glad you joined us!! Great cupcakes. I FINALLY made my cake today and didn't do the angel frosting at all. Hopefully I'll do a blog post on mine Wed.

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  10. Gorgeous cupcakes, love the little pink pearls

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