More success!

I have made a few new things recently, most notably my chocolate cupcakes that I made yesterday. I filled them with peanut butter ganache and frosted with a light whipped chocolate frosting, the latter two I just sort of made up as I went along.

Here is a link to the chocolate cake recipe I used. I didn't make the frosting, so I cannot vouch for it, but the cake was quite good. I'm not much of a chocolate person, so I thought the chocolate chips were a bit much in combination with the melted baking chocolate, but everyone at work seemed to like it, so I would say it is optional. The consistency was...interesting, a lot lighter and fluffier than my other cupcake attempts, very unique. The recipe made around 32 cupcakes.

After letting them cool I filed them with peanut butter ganache. They make Reeses Chips, and I substituted those for chocolate chips in my aforementioned ganache recipe. It is probably the most delicious thing I have ever tasted. I made the whipped ganache in this instance. It went very well with the cake.

I was going to frost with the ganache as well but I ran out of peanut butter chips, so I made an easy whipped chocolate frosting. I didn't measure anything, but it was about 8 oz of heavy whipping cream, 2 tbsp of sugar, 1/2 a cup of ghiradelli cocoa powder and a couple squirts of hershey syrup. I'm sure there is something a bit more specific out on the vast wealth of information of the internet, but regardless, my mishmash of ingredients turned out quite good, a nice change from the richness of the cupcake and filling.

These were a hit if you are looking for something a bit different. I still need to blog about my margarita cupcakes, note to self.