Cupcake Mania Part Two

For the second baking event we got a little more daring for Elizabeth's shower. I picked to bake black and white cupcakes; chocolate cupcake with cream cheese filling. They were topped with a gooey chocolate glaze and chocolate curls. Merida worked on the chocolate cupcakes and made the cream cheese filling but before we before we could begin baking we had to get more sugar. Merida ran to her apartment and brought her sugar over and we were good to go.



I chose to small a bowl to make the cream cheese frost and we ended up with a bunch of cream cheese all over the wall!



We used out technique of filling a plastic bag and cutting the end to fill the cupcake tins. We filled them 3/4 full and then spooned in the cream cheese filling. When they baked the cream cheese would sink down into the middle with a chocolate shell all around it.


When the cupcakes started bake the cream cheese frosting did not sink down into the middle as intended but exploded out the top and sides. When we removed the cupcake for the pan we found it difficult and the cupcakes had no top and the chocolate they had around the edge was very fragile that most of them almost broke in half. They cupcakes came out all different sizes as well. We called it quits for the days and I ran to go get ready for the baby bash.

The next day before the shower I had the tack of finishing the cupcakes I need the make the gooey chocolate glaze and the chocolate curls. The chocolate glaze way made warming sweetened condensed milk, semisweet choclate and butter in a small saucepan. Then you stir and stir and stir. The mixture was indeed gooey as billed it had the consistency of Gak. It was very unweldly but perfect for creating a top for the cupcakes and filling in the hole the cream cheese left. After a couple of cupcakes I got pretty good at commanding the gooey glaze to the top of the cupcake.



The chocolate curls were made by using a vegetable peeler on a frozen bar of milk chocolate turned long was. The curls were very delicate and would melt in your hand it you took too long. They made a nice finishing touch.

The cupcake were enjoyed by all as we celebrated Elizabeth and her big day.