Showing posts with label Old Fashion Chocolate Cupcakes with Skippy Buttercream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Fashion Chocolate Cupcakes with Skippy Buttercream. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Old Fashion Chocolate Cupcakes with Skippy Buttercream

So I had some guineapigs, err guest over for dinner tonight. As with tradition, I would always take the 'chance' to try out some new found recipes on my unsuspecting, err..gracious guests.

Tonight, it was this internet-found-very-much-tweaked-by-me recipe. Being an 'internet' recipe, I must have wrongly copied the recipe because to my horror this morning, there was NO measurement for flour, of all things! Try as I may, I couldn't trace back the link!! Hence the 'tweaking' by mua!

Anyhooo, my guests were gracious and honest with their comments :-). WHICH by the way, were my exact sentiments to begin with!

Chocolate Cupcake: yes, old fashioned indeed..it was a little dry and boring! I've made better chocolate cupcakes than this!
Skippy Buttercream: way too sweet. Although J, M & T loved it, the others weren't too excited about it. Which is why I am never too fond of buttercreams in general. ALL the recipes I've come across and tried are damn sweet and I have trouble "unsweetening' it!
Next on the card, Hazelnut mini-cakes!! That's for Monday's swim-date with the BFF and her little clan!

My Plain Chilled Cheesecake was also served but as with these cupcakes, I was not too please with the turn out too! Yes, too sweet! I had failed to use Thickened Cream, as called by the recipe! Dammn, tweaking!!