Okay, so I fell off the wagon… a little. But it’s my favorite holiday and I haven’t had a single cupcake all year (apart from the WW friendly ones). So I’ll be having cupcakes… and some yummy food to celebrate the holiday of luuuuuurrrrve, and I promise on February 15th I’ll stop making excuses and get back with the program!
Love,
Amanda
Okay, so now that that’s done, I decided to tackle two of my cupcake goals this month that happen to involve the flavors chocolate and strawberry since they are kind of the official Valentine’s Day flavors.
My first goal was to make strawberry cupcakes, one of my favorite cupcake flavors. I have only attempted strawberry cupcakes once before, but that time the strawberries turned the batter pink, and as much as I love pink, I was going for more of a vanilla cupcake with strawberry bits in it.
For these cupcakes, I actually used the Sprinkles cupcakes recipe, and it worked! Woo hoo!
My batter:
Here they are, fresh out of the oven! Gorgeous :)
My frosting came out pretty awesome too. My strawberry puree was a bit thick, but I think it was kind of cool to have the little strawberry bits in it!
Here is the strawberry frosting on a chocolate cupcake, which I used for my second cupcake challenge, which was frosting with a chocolate ganache.
First I tried the ganache I use on my Chocolate Harvest Cake, but it was too soft and was strange on the frosting. I ended up using chocolate candy coating like the kind I use on my cake balls and it turned out great!
I hope everyone has an awesome Valentine’s Day!
Peace, LOVE and cupcakes,
Amanda
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