FireGoddess, wow, 2 types of cupcakes; I was pooped after one type.
Date: 5/6/2008 2:59:37 PM
Author: Skippy123
FG, beautiful cupcakes. Maybe there wasn''t enough baking soda, baking powder re:shrinking?? Hey if they taste good that is all that matters! hehe
What does tres leches taste like? When I was getting married and picking out my cakes the lady that made them was known for being the lady to go to for tres leches. You have me intrigued with what the flavor may be similar too? They look wonderful, bringing over my fork to try!!!
Oh my gosh, what a sweet coworker you are to bring them in for Cinco de Mayo,Date: 5/6/2008 4:01:52 PM
Author: FireGoddess
Date: 5/6/2008 2:59:37 PM
Author: Skippy123
FG, beautiful cupcakes. Maybe there wasn''t enough baking soda, baking powder re:shrinking?? Hey if they taste good that is all that matters! hehe
What does tres leches taste like? When I was getting married and picking out my cakes the lady that made them was known for being the lady to go to for tres leches. You have me intrigued with what the flavor may be similar too? They look wonderful, bringing over my fork to try!!!
Dunno about the shrinking...I think there was powder AND soda in the cupcakes. It''s a mystery. They were delish, though it''d have been nice if they were still in wrappers as opposed to naked. They got eaten quickly but I imagine otherwise they would have dried out more quickly without wrappers. Oh well.
It''s hard to describe what tres leches tastes like....it isn''t my favorite cake because it is fairly wet, but I made it anyway for Cinco de Mayo. The final product is sweet, cinnamony, and wet. The cake itself didn''t have a lot of taste, but after it was soaked in the 3 milks + cinnamon it was fantastic! Very sweet, wet, and cinnamony. Then to top it off with frosting...delish!
Here you go Dragonfly! One thing I would say, is that I triple or quadruple the amount of cinnamon in the recipe, as personally I like CC to be quite spicy. But this is a very easy recipe and hasn''t failed me yet! I normally use a basic buttercream frosting with lemon flavouring which goes really well with these cakes. I use some lemon juice and a bit of lemon flavouring, but you could use whatever you like for frosting, these are even yummy without any!Date: 5/8/2008 11:25:54 AM
Author: dragonfly411
Lorelei. I would love to see it!! I''ve started searching blogger for some cupcake blogs. I plan to adapt a cinnamon Banana cake recipe I found this weekend to make cupcakes instead. The frosting will be a powdered sugar frosting. I just hope I get it right....
dragonfly, the frosting is really the easiest part!!
for a basic easy buttercream:
room temperature unsalted butter, confectioners sugar, tsp of milk and ''flavoring'' (vanilla, lemon, almond, peppermint depending on what you want)
cream butter in mixer, add sugar, and milk til you get consistency. add flavoring and then a bit more sugar if necessary. when you think it''s thick enough, add a bit more sugar...i started with too soft frostings that are too hard to spread without dripping. slightly stiffer frosting is better for frosting. you can also add food coloring if you want a color.
to do a cream cheese frosting, just add cream cheese to the above and cut butter down to like 1/3. really mostly frosting is just ''to taste'' as there is no hard core recipe for it. some like it super sweet with more sugary taste, some like to taste the butter or cream cheese more.
they say to refridgerate stuff with cream cheese on it but i have not been doing that because it was drying out my cupcakes EVEN in a sealed container, and i have had cream cheese cupcakes out of the fridge for a few days and eaten them and been fine, so really i don''t bother anymore (unless you do a whipped heavy cream one or something with uncooked eggs, have to refridgerate, in that case i''d frost them the morning of and make cupcakes night before).
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