28.10.08

twd: chocolate-chocolate cupcakes, boo-yah!

boo-ya!

for this week's tuesdays with dorie, clara from the wonderful i heart food for thought chose chocolate-chocolate cupcakes and gently suggested doing a halloween theme for decoration.

there had been some lengthy discussion about the texture and crumb being dry, with lots of talk about ratios and flour weights. i don't think there are any "fool-proof" recipes (especially for baking) so i tend to think that any discrepancies mainly occur because of differences in conditions, particularly in the oven. so i decided to proceed as written, but keeping a careful watch on the baking time. i checked in 16 minutes and the toothpick came out wet; only 2 more minutes and it came out completely dry.

orange + brown = halloween?

the result? well first, the batter was soo good! that bowl hardly had to go in the dishwasher i cleaned it so well myself - no shame!

and the cupcake? amazing! moist and chocolately. i did not have any problem with it being a crummy dry crumb. i suspect that was related to my 18 minutes baking, compared to dorie's written 22-25 minutes. i would've preferred a chocolate buttercream, but that's just me (or is it you, too?)

i wasn't at all creative in the halloween department. but do you ever need a pretty reason to eat a chocolately chocolate cupcake??

for the recipe, please click here!

chocolate-chocolate cucpakes

6 comments:

  1. Super duper cute! And so environmental of you to clean the bowl...less water needed to wash! :) The orange frosting is great!

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  2. Simple but so pretty! I'm glad they worked out for you.

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  3. Love the orange frosting halloween decor. The "boo" is probably my favorite! Glad you enjoyed the recipe. Thanks for baking with me this week!
    Clara @ iheartfood4thought

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  4. they are perfectly decorated for halloween. great job!

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  5. those look great, and your decorations far surpassed mine in complexity, that's for sure! glad to hear they came out moist and yummy!

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  6. What a coincidence.. I was thinking of making chocolate cupcakes, and was wondering if I should use my normal recipe or try something new. I like that chocolate glaze you used, and the orange piping is really nice too!

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