Cooking
I have a lot of pictures lying around from before we left Denmark - including these, of some cupcakes I served for my brothers birthday in late February. It's not so much a recipe, but more of an idea. It sprang from the fabulous White Chocolate and Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Santos' pictures and description persuaded me to make for a DwB-session a year ago - Boy, was it delish!
And then, browsing around Chockylit's blog, as I do from time to time (and watch out with that - clicking on Chockylit's pictures could have you running to the kitchen within seconds, thinking nothing but cupcakes, cupcakes, CUPCAKES!!!:-)), the idea emerged of taking the flavors from the cheesecake, and turning them into a cupcake. I haven't been able to find that many recipes using dulce de leche as an ingredient in, say, cupcakes, which has annoyed me a bit. So, using the approach Chockylit's has to a lot of her cupcakes (a base-recipe for the cake, then some sort of filling, and then a lavish frosting) and Santos' cheesecake recipe as a blueprint, the Dulce de Leche filled Blackbottom Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting was born. Some name, eh?!
I used a recipe for blackbottom cupcakes from Baking by Flavor. Let them cool, then cut out little cones from the top (ate those - wouldn't want to waste them, you know?) and filled the hole with dulce de leche.
On top of that, I piped a cream cheese-white chocolate-icing sugar frosting. Now, I'll have to work on the amounts in the frosting, and I'd probably use a butter-cream cheese frosting approach, to get a frosting that would hold it's shape better - but the flavors together where GREAT! I guess you could go for a more dense, chocolatey type of cupcake-bottom - I wanted the ever-so-slightly bitter taste of the blackbottom one, because face it, dulce de leche is tooth-achingly sweet. Anyways, just wanted to pass the idea on (and remember a bit what it was like to have homemade treats - sniff!! Oh dear how I miss my oven!):-)
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I missed yesterdays NaBloPoMo. Actually, I missed Friday, but the post I put up...
Cooking
The Scent of Green Bananas in The Cupcake Bakeshop
I have a lot of pictures lying around from before we left Denmark - including these, of some cupcakes I served for my brothers birthday in late February. It's not so much a recipe, but more of an idea. It sprang from the fabulous White Chocolate and Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Santos' pictures and description persuaded me to make for a DwB-session a year ago - Boy, was it delish!
And then, browsing around Chockylit's blog, as I do from time to time (and watch out with that - clicking on Chockylit's pictures could have you running to the kitchen within seconds, thinking nothing but cupcakes, cupcakes, CUPCAKES!!!:-)), the idea emerged of taking the flavors from the cheesecake, and turning them into a cupcake. I haven't been able to find that many recipes using dulce de leche as an ingredient in, say, cupcakes, which has annoyed me a bit. So, using the approach Chockylit's has to a lot of her cupcakes (a base-recipe for the cake, then some sort of filling, and then a lavish frosting) and Santos' cheesecake recipe as a blueprint, the Dulce de Leche filled Blackbottom Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting was born. Some name, eh?!
I used a recipe for blackbottom cupcakes from Baking by Flavor. Let them cool, then cut out little cones from the top (ate those - wouldn't want to waste them, you know?) and filled the hole with dulce de leche.
On top of that, I piped a cream cheese-white chocolate-icing sugar frosting. Now, I'll have to work on the amounts in the frosting, and I'd probably use a butter-cream cheese frosting approach, to get a frosting that would hold it's shape better - but the flavors together where GREAT! I guess you could go for a more dense, chocolatey type of cupcake-bottom - I wanted the ever-so-slightly bitter taste of the blackbottom one, because face it, dulce de leche is tooth-achingly sweet. Anyways, just wanted to pass the idea on (and remember a bit what it was like to have homemade treats - sniff!! Oh dear how I miss my oven!):-)
A little blurry, but you get the idea, right?
- World Dulce De Leche Day---dark Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes
My contribution to World Dulce de Leche day; double-dark chocolate cupcakes filled with glorious dulce de leche, topped with a dark chocolate ganache, pin-striped with more dulce de leche & finally topped with chopped, toasted pecans. You know you...
- Shf: Surprise!
Surprise! Alanna of Veggie Venture is hosting this month's Sugar High Friday, one of my favorite foodie events. Don't think a veg-heavy blogger can do lots of sugary goodness? Think again. This month's theme, Surprise Inside, just happened...
- Total Decadence
It was my mother-in-law's birthday this past weekend. She's very good about eating healthy, but she's never said 'no' to something from my oven. Matt drummed it into my head fairly early on that his mom loves chocolate. So, what better...
- Imbb 13: Cupcakes
(Pats self on back) I finally did it; I found out about IMBB before it happened, and came up with my very own, and yummy (if I do say so, myself), creation. My entry? Dulce De Leche-Filled Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting Yeah,...
- Apologies With Dulce De Leche-filled Brownies & Cupcakes
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I missed yesterdays NaBloPoMo. Actually, I missed Friday, but the post I put up...