My First Order!

I just dropped off my first order!
It was for 3 dozen, so I made 6 different kinds:

Vanilla Brownie Surprise! with Buttercream


Lemon with Blackberry Cream Cheese


Cinnamon with Nutella Buttercream


Chocolate Cherry-Filled Cinnamon Cream Cheese


Coconut with Raspberry Buttercream


Carrot with Cream Cheese


The best part was that I made about a dozen extras (for my boyfriend and I to nibble on, of course), and after covering them with cling wrap leaving them on the dining room table, we went to bed. Around 3am, I heard one of the cats playing with what I thought was a ball of paper, no biggie. Well he kept coming closer, and eventually jumped on the bed and dropped what he had on my leg. I thought to myself, "jeeze that's a lot heavier than a piece of pap...no...it can't be!" So I reached down and got a handful of icing and cupcake! The little bugger daintily unwrapped the tray (how I have NO idea), stole a cupcake from the corner and I swear to god started to pull off the liner to eat it. He even brought it to bed!!!
I take it as a compliment; my cupcakes are loved by even cats! ♥

Surprise!

My most recent experiment was originally going to be a vanilla cupcake with a chocolate chip cookie base, which, to my demise, wasn't possible since I had run out of brown sugar (and the store had already closed!) "Oh well," I thought, "what else can I stuff into a cupcake?"

Brownies.

What a wonderful little surprise concealed by a tasty layer of vanilla cake, hidden underneath a billow of icing (pink icing at that!)

These were fun, and surprisingly easy to make!

First I made the cake batter and brownie batter.
I then filled each cup half full with cake batter.












After baking them at 325°F for about 5 minutes I put a dollop of brownie batter in the centre of each cup. Pre-baking allows the outside of the cake to firm up just enough to keep the brownie batter from sinking to the bottom. Back in the oven they went!








Fast forward about 15 minutes.
The brownie puffed up a bit more than I was expecting, so now I know for next time to use less baking powder, or save a little cake batter and top off the centres after the brownie dollop.










Topped with a pretty little swirl of pink buttercream, the finished product looks like just a plain vanilla cupcake, right? But then...











...Surprise!
What could be better than finding a second delicious treat inside an already delicious one?!